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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1) The system it was tested on doesn't really even meet up to the specs of any version of Linux running X
2) It seems to me that the reviewer was looking for a flawless, fast, smooth OS to run. Considering that Knoppix is something like 2GB of compressed data, this is going to be impossible without somewhat high hardware resouces (eg. RAM, CPU, etc.)
3) "KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos." If you want more, install it to your hard drive.