The Gnoppix Project released Gnoppix 0.8. Gnoppix 0.8-Series comes with Gnome 2.6 and Kernel 2.6.7, gcc 3.4, egroupware, Openoffice, etc. The Mono/MonoDevelop environment is also included. There is also a GUI Installation tool, that lets you install Gnoppix with 7 clicks to disk.
Gnoppix 0.8 Released
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I’m downloading it now. Maybe I’ll do an Hebrew remastering of it.
I’m downloading it too. Can’t wait to do a HD install!
Any livecds out there that has LaTeX support from start?
Quantian is a live cd “tailored to numerical and quantitative analysis”. You could find it at:
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html
Sounds cool. It might be my new distro…
The HD install sounds similar to BeOS… hmmmm.
What a sleek and responsive desktop! I’ve never actually used Linux on an every-day basis, and I hadn’t played around with GNOME for quite a while. Seems like it has really come a long way. Thanks, Gnoppix, for making me check GNOME out again. I didn’t get it to run a screen resolution other than 640×480, though, and neither did my soundcard or my DSL-connection work (just lousy onboard stuff here). But hey, I’ll definetely be there to try the next version again.
Could someone post/link to some installer screenshots?
http://www.gnoppix.org/pages/screenshots/gnoppix07beta/gnoppix_inst…
I’ve tried to use Gnoppix on three seperate Dell computers and It seems that as soon as the OS has finished booting and trying to load Gnome it just reboots. Just when I thought I had found a live CD that didn’t use KDE… so close.
As distrowatch even listed it as “appears to be dead” or something like that.
On my HD, though, I have Slackware and Dropline GNOME 2.6.1. It’s simply stable. No apt-get updates of any sort.
Too bad that my job requires me to be on Windows most of the time (Delphi, mind you).
Diversity…
The kind of “eco system” that Microsoft doesn’t like. hehe. 
Well, there used to be ‘Boten’ Linux which was based on slackware (if I am not mistaken), but I havn’t seen any good hebrew focused gnome distros.
Kanotix has the teTeX packages. And as opposed to Quantian, the full distribution actually holds on a 700MB CD (the full Quantian is ~1.5GB, it has to be burned on DVD media). I have not taken the time to download and try it, so I don’t know how it fares compared to Gnoppix or Quantian or, for that matter, their father Knoppix.
http://kanotix.com/info/index.php
I don’t mean to be negative but I’ve never quite understood the fascination with LiceCDs. With the exception of systems like GNOPPIX (which can be easily installed on a HDD), I can’t imagine an enormous market for them. A small one perhaps (emergency rescue, demo-cd. etc) but not on the scale we see today. Just about every second distro on distrowatch is a live-cd. Can someone explain this to me? Maybe I’ve overlooked something.
PS: I love knome too
I have tried Knoppix, Morphix (which hasnt it seems been updated for awhile) and Kanotix. I use Kanotix on a old 600mhz laptop with a Dlink wireless card and it works great with that wireless card. I prefer KDE especially the new KDE 3.3 I have been more interested in Gnome lately since they came out with version 2.6.
Correction: “knome” -> “gnome”
For me, live CD distros are great as a “poor man’s portable computer”. I have a remastered Knoppix with the set of software I use everyday for work. Because of its great hardware detection aptitudes – which are passed on to remasters like Gnoppix – I can use pretty much any PC I stumble upon to plow through my daily share. My experience with this usage pattern is excellent up to now. As for my data, I keep it centralized on a university account, from which I can download a copy and upload back the modified files (using rsync). I also carry it around on a USB key for when I use computers from which I cannot access the Internet. Hence, my Knoppix CD acts like the most light-weight laptop I have ever used ;-). It really makes using someone else’s computer painless for the owner as much as it is made comfortable for me.
GNUSTEP LIVE CD http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ also has LaTeX and TeXmacs.
>> Correction: “knome” -> “gnome”
np, GNOME is pronounced as “guh-nome” (with a “k” sound)
Yep, thanks to nice connection at work I’ve download it, burned to CD and try on my GF laptop. Saddly, it wouldn’t go up from 640×480 on NeoMagic card. I could tweak XF config, but, OTOH, it’s LiveCD so it should be as friendly, as it’s possible. The reason why I’ve downloaded it it’s Mono framework. I never had time to set up this env. at work or home. It’s good occasion to give it a try, grab the CD to my friend, who’s developing in C# and .NET and ask him about opionion. Now, who’s going to do LiveCD with DotGNU? :->
I’m thinking of using Linux Live CD’s for cybercafe’s. Haven’t worked out yet as to how am I going to limit user’s time on it.
Well, doh. After forcing FBDev, because NV refused to work, all I’ve got after running MonoDevelop was some errors. Duh, duh. So, I’ll have to apt-get it.
Anyone has problem with USB mouse on this latest release 0.8? If so, how did you solve the problem?
Thanks.
I got the same problem – I haven’t looked at a fix yet, I’m guessing there’s a problem in XFree86 config else I’ll be stumped …
pity, it looks really nice, much smoother than kanotix (which broke when I apt-get’d the nvidia driver packages on my HD install) plus i personally have a preference for gnome — gnome, and a pointing device which works ….
😉
ah well, back to OS X and FCP HD, muhahahaha
LiveCDs can be used for installing some Linux distributions where you need to compile every package from scratch. Gentoo and LFS come to mind. Desktops and workstations almost every where use some version of Microsoft Windows. If you are particularly averse to working in a Microsoft Windows environment, LiveCDs might be your rescue.
I carry a LiveCD, and my configuration files, for those times where I need to do some work that I can do easier on Linux than on Windows. In fact, I find myself using LiveCDs all the time in public computer libraries.
I tried booting it, but it did not detect my USB mouse so I could not play around with it (well, I could have plugged my mouse into the normal ps/2 port… which I will probably try next, but was a little disappointed by that on the first try.
But Debian + Gnome 2.6 is a great mix… gotta get it working to play with it! (Right now I am using FC2 which works great out of the box and with my USB mouse).
Mike
I’ve used gnoppix 0.5 to 0.7 and they all worked so I was looking forward to 0.8. Unfortunately it gets so so far booting up and then reboots the PC on me. Bummer…
AS a windows person, i find them handy for the times when i want to use linux.
Well, although it’s a good effort, it is really not there yet when compared with MEPIS – which is really jolly good, has an excellent installer and just works…..even with a lucent winmodem already!!!!!!