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Knoppix

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Knoppix is a free Linux distribution. It is interesting because of the fact that you can run it completely by booting a 700mb CD. It is fully featured with copylefted and freely distributable software such as Gimp, OpenOffice, KDE, Gnome, and roughly 2gb of other packages made possible a special compression technique.

An outstanding ability of Knoppix that it automatically recognizes almost all the Linux supported hardware on the computer when booting. You can remove the CD and it is as if Knoppix had never been run.

The hardware requirements of Knoppix are:

  • Intel-compatible CPU (i486 or later),
  • 20 MB of RAM for text mode, at least 96 MB for graphics mode with KDE (at least 128 MB of RAM is recommended to use the various office products),
  • bootable CD-ROM drive, or a boot floppy and standard CD-ROM (IDE/ATAPI or SCSI),
  • standard SVGA-compatible graphics card,
  • serial or PS/2 standard mouse or IMPS/2-compatible USB-mouse.

Home and Download Mirrors at: Knoppix Home

Knoppix is based off of Debian Linux.

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