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 run linux on my little old Toshiba Tecra 8000 (PII-233, 128mb, 2.5mb NeoMagic video card). Knoppix (or any other liveCD) is damn slow, due to CD access. But from HDD it's perfectly usable. Ehile not blazingly fast, KDE is fine if you turn chrome off, and XFCE is downright speedy, with free physical ram and virtually no swap usage.
It can be done, but let's not have unrealistic expectations, shall we?
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