Linked by Joel Pomales on Wed 12th May 2004 19:38 UTC
I've been trying Linux on and off for a couple of years. My first experience with Linux was with a version of Slackware (can't remember) way back in 1996. At the time the installation was so daunting that I gave up all together. For a little background I consider myself a proficient computer user.
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Knoppix is definitely the ultimate rescue CD. Whenever an OS stops booting for whatever reason (Say, NTOSkrnl.exe has decided to die once again), you can easily boot Knoppix (in less than a minute). Mount all your partitions (I even think it's automatically done at startup) then fix the problem (if the defective OS is a *nix) or backup your data on a FAT partition, flash drive or CDR and get reay to format.
Really, no PC should be more than 5 meters away from a Knoppix CD.
(only problem with Knoppix now is that if you decide to install it, the installer is really minimalistic and allows for very little to no customizing. I'll stick with Gentoo.)