Linked by Binh Nguyen on Wed 7th Jan 2004 18:08 UTC
When Knoppix was first released it was heralded as revolutionary in the Linux world. Its autodetection and configuration capabilities were unsurpassed. Many of my colleagues remarked that if 'KNOPPIX can't do it, Linux can't do it'. Theoretically, one would be able to get a Knoppix CD, pop it into an arbitrary system, run it, save one's data to a partition, USB stick, etc....), reboot and the existing system would be left completely as it was before the CD was placed in the system.
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I've been using Knoppix since approx May'03, and have been loving it. Before I used mostly Mandrake, and would upgrade as soon as a new release came out. Since installing Knoppix 3.2 June ???, I haven't bothered installing a newer release. I think this speaks some about the stability and usefulness of this system.
I have one niggle though, and that is that for someone not steeped in Debian, it doesn't help matters that Knoppix is based on both unstable and testing. It can make upgrading packages using apt-get not as trouble free as it otherwise would be.
Considering that this is an all volunteer effort, I think the results are more than amazing.