Blogcritics: Comments on Review: Knoppix: Pocket Reference

Comment by Pat Cummings

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:47:10 EDT

I have changed the category of this post from "Review" to "Opinion." John, your re-posting of this item without substantial change after your editor (moi) asked you to expand it is not appreciated.

Comment by Gregg Guetschow

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:36:03 EDT

One of the real advantages of the Knoppix Live CD is the ability to use it to detect problems in a computer running Windows. Just by way of example, I was having problems with my wife's laptop and, by using Knoppix, was able to isolate the cause. Current Knoppix releases will start up from a firewire cd-rom, something that many others will not do.

Comment by Bennett

Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:18:22 EDT

Thanks Victor! This review is kinda paltry in not providing this kind of info to those of us who are not "unixwizards" or such.

Comment by Victor Plenty

Sun, 10 Jul 2005 21:44:41 EDT

It doesn't do anything to the Windows OS on your computer. That's the beauty of these bootable CD versions of Linux. You get to try out the Linux experience with no risk, by booting from the CD. If you don't like it, just restart your computer with the CD out of the drive, and you're back to running Windows again. If you have your own CD burner, you can download a Linux CD image file for free from many different places on the Web. One good site to find multiple flavors of Linux is LinuxISO.org. Knoppix will work on almost any computer capable of running Windows and booting from the CD-ROM drive.

Comment by Bennett

Sun, 10 Jul 2005 21:26:37 EDT

What? On what platforms does this work? How much does it cost? What does it do to the windows system already on my computer? Why would I want to buy it?