I finally managed to boot the DVD on a 1.3Ghz Duron machine with 512MB RAM. They aren't kidding when they say that this release is overloaded: I counted something like 80 items in the Internet applications menu. Thats just too big.
It also takes ten minutes to boot, unlike the CD version (3.9) which only took a couple minutes from the first KNOPPIX screen to the desktop.
I say hand out KNOPPIX v3.9 LiveCD, not the monster DVD version.
--- Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:
I'm thinking to not hand this out at ITEC. Cost issues aside on blank DVDs, apparently the folks making KNOPPIX went hog-wild with all the space they have on a DVD, resulting in menus so big it takes forever to find an application to run. Add in a major bug in the 4.0 release and a few other problems, and it may not be something we want to be someone's first introduction to Linux.
Flavio's Technotalk review of KNOPPIX 4.0: http://tinyurl.com/as7q3
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