“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…”