[pchelpers] Re: Knoppix

Maybe one day I will get around to learning that system (or find an 
expert who can explain the jargon.)  Anyone here qualify as an 
unidentified drip under pressure (expert)?

rweyer wrote:

>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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