The release candidate for Ubuntu 7.10 has been released. "The Ubuntu developers are hurrying to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software that the open source and free software communities have to offer. This is the Ubuntu 7.10 release candidate, which brings a host of excellent new features. We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable and suitable for testing by any user. The final stable version will be released in October 2007."
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Member since:2006-05-31
Member since:2006-01-01
Knoppix is not and was never installable.
Wrong. My first successful Debian installation (back in the Debian Woody days) was done via Knoppix. The installation was simple and quick -- it just created a new file system and then dumped the contents of the live-cd onto the hard drive (kind of like the current Ubuntu desktop installer does).
The problem was that Knoppix mixed packages from Debian Stable, Testing, and Unstable, plus many packages from unofficial repositories, and the first "apt-get dist-upgrade" immediately broke my installation. 
Member since:2006-11-24
How can this be modded up where it is obviously false? Knoppix was installable off the live CD for the longest time. There was an option within the booted system from where you could start a HD install. It even had/has (?) a feature where you could set it up to act as a thin client server.
Member since:2006-01-10
I think something got lost in this thread of conversation.... I think it originally was about it being great to have a One CD install. Then it changed a bit to be about LiveCD install, which Knoppix was definitely the first. Then again, I think Knoppix was the first LiveCD.
Other than that, I can think of several One CD installs. Storm Linux (later Stormix), Corel (already mentioned), and of course any of the older versions of Linux. RedHat 4.2 came on a single CD.
Of course we can go the other route and talk about the largest amount od disks for install. Debian holds that title at 21 CDs or 3 DVDs. Now that's a lot of software, and I think Sarge had 16 or something. Debian is getting HUGE.
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2005-07-06
Knoppix is not and was never installable. It's purely a live CD. So it's really not the same.