RE: [school-discuss] Knoppix vs. Freeduc vs. ???

[<mthompson@codedfuture.com>]

That's Correct. It runs entirely from CD. I have used it with a p-133 just
last week so could get files off my crashed GNU\Linux box. It actually runs
quite swiftly on said system. You should have no problem running Knoppix.
Michael Thompson
President Coded Future
http://www.codedfuture.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
[mailto:owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net] On Behalf Of Massimiliano
Mirra
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 8:10 AM
To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net

Jan Wilson <corocom@btl.net> writes:

> Think about what you are asking here.  The Knoppix-based systems are
> designed to be compressed onto a single CD and run almost entirely in
> RAM (they will use a swap file on the HD if they detect it and it
> looks OK to use).  So it's hard to make a full system like that work

No.  They don't run in RAM any more than your regular installed Linux
does, they run from the CD and uncompress things on the fly.  Knoppix
works great in 64MB with WMaker as the window manager, has no problem
with 32MB and I'm sure less (I haven't tried) with a lightweight
window manager like fluxbox, and it does just fine on even 486 with
16MB if all you need is the command line.