Knoppix

Knoppix is maintained by Klaus Knopper. His distribution is so important for the Linux community that he recently appeared alongside Linus Torvalds on a list of the most influential people in the tech industry.

Though not strictly the first live CD distribution, Knoppix is the most popular. As I mentioned, a good number of Live CD projects have used Knoppix as a base. Knoppix itself is based on Debian. The version used in the evaluation was the latest - Knoppix 3.7

Good Points	Weak Points
jam packed with applications latest KDE desktop network setup was easy sound worked right way - no need for tweaking printing set up was easy	No Firefox Fonts are ugly on boot. Have to reconfigure in KDE control panel and restart GUI.

Knoppix passes the test with flying colors. The only problem I find - and this takes into account that I am a Linux advocate by profession- is that Knoppix at first site is not as attractive as others. But Knoppix has everything you need - and then some. To paraphrase Samuel Johnson - If you tired of Knoppix, you are tired of Linux, for Knoppix has everything that Linux has to offer.

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