[pchelpers] Knoppix

Linux Alternative to Windows---Spreading
Source: United Press International 

TEL AVIV, Israel (United Press International via COMTEX) -- It's free, it 
replaces Microsoft's Windows operating system and several Microsoft programs, 
and Knoppix users, though mostly in Israel, need not read Hebrew. 

Knoppix presents the user with a friendly desktop full of icons similar in 
presentation to a Macintosh screen and supports several languages, including 
English and Russian as well as Hebrew. 

The operating system based on the open-code Linux takes up 600 megabytes but 
not necessarily on a hard drive. Its creator, German engineer Klaus Knopper, 
built it to be used directly from a CD rom. It includes its own Internet 
browser, an MP3 player and a suite of applications from word processor to 
spread sheet. 

Knoppix also includes something not to be found in Windows products, a facility 
allowing a computer to be clustered with many others over broadband data lines, 
to add up to a no-cost super computer, maarivintl.com reported Sunday. 

see
http://www.knoppix.com/



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