this is a strange story. my father in law has a thinkpad that seems to be having a bios or motherboard problem, and it looks a little like what i think might happen if the bios was corrupted by a ...

There's nothing like spending the day indoors during New England's first hot sunny Saturday in 2006. But indoors is where I spent it trying to get some valuable data off what, for all intents and ...

Nearly every Linux user seems to remember their first encounter with the OS. I decided to try booting up the first distro I ever tried, Knoppix, to see how well it held up since I first tried it over ...

Knoppix is a lightweight Linux distro that is anything but light in its features and functions. It equals or exceeds the performance of all the desktop varieties I run in Ubuntu and Linux Mint. It ...

Knoppix was started as an experiment for learning how to boot and run the operating system from removable media, and automatically adapt the software for different hardware and peripherals. What gave ...

Knoppix is one of the oldest Linux distributions still around, and it was one of the first Linux Live CD distributions. If my memory is correct, the first generally available release of Knoppix (on a ...

Knoppix used to use the Captive NTFS driver, and that could write files to NTFS partitions. It was removed from newer versions when the Captive project stopped being maintained. If you have or can get ...

If you have used Knoppix for any extended period of time, chances are you eventually thought about customizing it. You might have simply wanted to make cosmetic changes with a new background and a ...

As distribution innovations go, Knoppix is a revelation. A bootable CD that provides a completely self-contained and fully functional desktop? All that and it leaves my hard drive untouched? What ...