ONLamp: Knoppix: The Linux Windows Users Can't Live Without | Linux Today

ONLamp: Knoppix: The Linux Windows Users Can’t Live Without

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 18, 2004

“This summer I had the pleasure of being the editor for the new
O’Reilly book Knoppix Hacks. Though I had futzed with Knoppix
before, and even created a customized version of it for an O’Reilly
event, I was not a regular user of the live CD.

“However, after seeing some of the hacks that the author Kyle
Rankin put together I became much more interested. Knoppix is an
incredibly versatile tool, in that it is a convenient medium for
carrying a bunch of other tools that let you do some insanely
useful and sometimes just fun things. Of course, that is the whole
purpose of a hacks book…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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