Instead, you can use any PC
that is available (with the exception of some unsupported hardware) and boot your
whole computing environment with a single CD. By customizing your own KNOPPIX,
you can add your own data and pick and choose applications as well.
A tool for managing data on any PC??”You can bypass the operating system and other
software on any computer and use the applications on your KNOPPIX disk to manage the
data on that computer.
Of course, these concepts are not exclusive to KNOPPIX because you could conceptually do the
same thing with any boot floppy since the days of DOS (as well as any other bootable Linux). The
difference is that KNOPPIX does those things so well. It lets you take over a computer, not just
with a tiny rescue disk capable of running a few obtuse commands, but with a full-scale desktop,
server, and administrative toolkit operating system. With that in mind, here are some ways people
are using KNOPPIX:
Showing off Linux??”A demo can lack some punch when you have to spend an hour
installing before you can make your point. With KNOPPIX, it can take about 5 minutes
from the time you tell your friend about Linux to the time you have a complete desktop
system running on his PC. And in the process, you don??™t have to worry about harming
anything on his computer because you don??™t even need to touch his hard disk.
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