DSC Siltec <dscpubl@siltec.lt> [2002-09-30 09:06:48 +0200]: > Suppose I wanted to make a computer that was completely and > automatically native to Linux, such that it automatically booted > into Linux, nice and quickly. What would the best way of doing > this be? Check out KNOPPIX! http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html When I first booted the cdrom image I was completely blown away! It correctly detected my network card and DHCP'd, sound card and set up sound, and graphics card and started up X11 at 1280x1024. It started KDE 3.0 and autologged in a generic user. I could play music and was connected to the network. All as a single CDROM boot without a hard drive. A great 'boot on your friends computer' or the local library public access terminal disk. It also features gratuitous audio and very colorful flashy splash screens. As Joe Bob Briggs would say, the drive-in totals were networking, sound, X11, KDE3.0, a few free ogg files with good tunes, check it out, five stars. YMMV. I have very generic hardware. I have tried this on one machine with wierd hardware out of five so far that did not boot well with it. But four out of five did wonderfully. One of the five that did great was an old laptop with bad obsolete hardware that always gives me trouble but worked fine. The key here is to have enough ram that the ramdisk is large enough to give the system sufficient performance over the CDROM speed. And btw it does not have to be a cdrom based system. You could run the image from a hard drive. The Knoppix FAQ lists hists which should be sufficient to install the image on a hard drive. Bob
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