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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>>What's to stop some novice destroying or corrupting the contents of their entire hard drive when the demonstrator's attention has been captured by some other matter.<<
Uuuhhh....maybe the fact that drives are mounted read-only by default, and you have to specifically tell it that you want to be able to write to the drive to screw it up. The novice who could mess it up accidentally, isn't going to know how to remount read-write, so it's not a problem, unless it's a malicious, knowledgeable user. But there's really no way to stop those, if they're persistent enough.