“When Knoppix was first released it was heralded as
revolutionary in the Linux world. Its autodetection and
configuration capabilities were unsurpassed. Many of my colleagues
remarked that if ‘KNOPPIX can’t do it, Linux can’t do it’.
Theoretically, one would be able to get a Knoppix CD, pop it into
an arbitrary system, run it, save one’s data to a partition, USB
stick, etc….), reboot and the existing system would be left
completely as it was before the CD was placed in the system.“In terms of Linux time, many a eon has passed since its
inception and yet there are few other distributions that are able
to claim the same level of usability (even with the inclusion of
commercial distributions such as Red Hat, Suse and Mandrake
Linux)…”
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