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this and added more hardware detection and configuration capabilities.
Looking Inside KNOPPIX
After automatically detecting and configuring your computer hardware, KNOPPIX boots right up
to a full-featured desktop system complete with hundreds of ready-to-use desktop applications
(no login required). It includes some powerful server and power user features. In fact, there are so
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many features, I won??™t even try to mention them all here, but take a look at the following list of
some of KNOPPIX??™s major components:
KDE??”A full-featured KDE desktop (which runs on the X Window System) that
includes tools for configuring the desktop and a bunch of applications tailored for the
KDE environment. (See Chapter 3 for descriptions of KDE.)
If you prefer the GNOME desktop environment, there are several customized versions
of KNOPPIX that include GNOME. Most notable is the Gnoppix (http://en
.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnoppix) distribution, which uses GNOME as its default desktop.
OpenOffice.org??”The OpenOffice.org suite of office productivity tools so that you can
create documents, graphics, presentations, spreadsheets, and most anything you expect
to be able to do with office applications.
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