What programs are on the Knoppix CD

[hickorynut01]

Is there a posted list of what programs are on the Knoppix CD and
what they do? I have Knoppix installed on my HD and its working
great but I don't know what most of
the programs are. I'm bad about
screwing things up so before I start
running programs I thought I would
ask. Thanks, kenny

[Stephen]

Is there a posted list of what programs are on the Knoppix CD and
what they do? I have Knoppix installed on my HD and its working
great but I don't know what most of
the programs are. I'm bad about
screwing things up so before I start
running programs I thought I would
ask. Thanks, kenny

On the mirror where you get the ISO image there is a packages.txt which always contains a list of the packages included. If you want to check from the HD you could apt-cache show package_name for a brief description in a console window and as always Google Linux (http://www.google.com/linux) works well for all things about linux.

[garyng]

except that the long list of packages with those cryptic names don't give people too much clue about what is really included, especially when coming from a Windows background.

[baldyeti]

You could use kpackage, from the "system" menu. Activate the "Installed" tab,
then select packages on the left side and their description will appear on the right.