Saturday, May 22, 2021

Knoppix the Ultimate Game Changer in Linux

If I do not write few lines in my memory lane of Linux Topics and ignore Knoppix as opposed to my current workhorse Debian, it is truly unfair.

Let me say, I settled with Debian mainly due to laziness in old age and significant memory loss, to lot of wine, and not forgetting the demise of our dog.

Debian in my PC runs seamless and without any need for updates but with Linux kernel 15, I installed Debian 10 as a safety precaution.

No fiddling with it staying on 115  SSD and no data writing on it.

But my torrential experiments were done with Pupply Linux and Knoppix.

I must say Knoppix outstanding features has caused me to neglect Puppy except FATPup 64 bit version with UEFI.

What you all need is Knoppix 8.2 with and most beautiful flexible desktop.
I call it flexible since windows can be lifted up in the desktop in a most elegant way.

It is the Brain Child of Knoppix and comes from Germany.

I am.currently used it on my Laptop to transfer large amount of Data to a SATA disk.
It can be booted up from a USB.
Its persistent mode with reserved block makes it easy to run on RAM over and over again.
Whereas Puppy makes a large but consistent sfs file every time you save (I never do that since I forget what I did last) it.

Let me list the Knoppix utilities I use.
Unfortunately it does not have AbiWord my favourite.

1. GNOME gpart for partitioning

2. File Manager for File Transfer en mass.

3. Play Pingus and Solitarre.

4. Use LibreOffice for PDF files.

5. Play VML with media and audio.

6. I just transferred all my data in 30 minutes from Imation Apollo Expert I bought in 2009 in Singapore to a terrabyte SATA disk with NTFS partition.

Remember to use good quality hardware.
Scandisk is pretty good.

Do not use Cheap Chinese stuff.

7. Lot of programming language  WIMP included.
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8. Putty file transfer utility

9. Installation in internal and external devices but prefer external.

10. Tor private browsing utility.

11.  Many browser utilities.

12. Torrent facilities.
And thousands of other utilities you can carry in your pocket instead of a heavy and bulky Laptop.
I hope one day I can boot it on my tablet effortless in RAM.


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