Is Knoppix V7.6 almost ready?

**Harry Kuhman** · 09-29-2015, 05:54 AM

Typically Klaus does some trade show releases that he chooses to not release to the Internet. People sometimes go behind his back and extract the ISO from the disc and release it, but I feel that rather disrespects the author. As for the 7.6 release, Klaus' typical response to this type of question is that it will be released when he is ready.

**otropogo** · 10-05-2015, 12:24 AM

Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman

Typically Klaus does some trade show releases that he chooses to not release to the Internet. People sometimes go behind his back and extract the ISO from the disc and release it, but I feel that rather disrespects the author. As for the 7.6 release, Klaus' typical response to this type of question is that it will be released when he is ready.

Unless the dog eats Klaus first...

**buymystock** · 10-05-2015, 06:50 AM

Originally Posted by otropogo

Unless the dog eats Klaus first...

...that won't happen.

**buymystock** · 10-05-2015, 07:14 AM

Tell me where to get knoppix 7.6; free or otherwise, and "the check is in the mail"; I got the knoppix 7.5 dvd at Linux Magazine web site and would be much more than delighted to order a new copy of knoppix 7.6 too! Love Knoppix!

**rbenea** · 10-06-2015, 01:29 PM

Same here!

We'll release a beta version of our software for blind users at the end of October so if I could build it on 7.6 directly it could save time not to redoit in a couple of months.

Originally Posted by buymystock

Tell me where to get knoppix 7.6; free or otherwise, and "the check is in the mail"; I got the knoppix 7.5 dvd at Linux Magazine web site and would be much more than delighted to order a new copy of knoppix 7.6 too! Love Knoppix!

**otropogo** · 10-11-2015, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by buymystock

Tell me where to get knoppix 7.6; free or otherwise, and "the check is in the mail"; I got the knoppix 7.5 dvd at Linux Magazine web site and would be much more than delighted to order a new copy of knoppix 7.6 too! Love Knoppix!

How did you do this, and how did you even find out about it? I just looked at the website and the issue in which 7.5 was included, and the only link I could see for the file gave the following display:

Die von Ihnen angegebene Seite /knoppix/knoppix750.html wurde nicht gefunden.
The specified page /knoppix/knoppix750.html could not be found.

BTW - I hate using paypal for anything. Have you ever read their terms and conditions or read any user reviews concerning customer service for billing and other accounting problems?

Don't care for google apps either. I've only ever used one, for my tablet. The tablet reset without my intervention, and the app disappeared without a trace.

**otropogo** · 10-11-2015, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by buymystock

...that won't happen.

Oh? Has Klaus been granted eternal good health by the gods of IT, or is it that he's been cloned?

**Werner P. Schulz** · 10-13-2015, 04:50 PM

→ The DVD Image is ready ...

**otropogo** · 10-15-2015, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by Werner P. Schulz

→ The DVD Image is ready ...

ready for download? If so, where, exactly?

Have looked at several of the mirror download sites, including Kaiserlauten, TU Wien, Mirror.PW, and haven't seen anything later than v. 7.4.2. And several mirrors seem no longer to be accessible.

UNIX-AG Bitorrent Tracker shows nothing later than v. 7.4.2 being shared.

**Capricorny** · 10-17-2015, 11:44 AM

Just FYI, I quote the complete post Werner linked to here. From the debian-knoppix mailing list 13.10, Klaus K answers:

Hello Marcin,

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:50:54AM +0200, Marcin Lach wrote:
> If there is a chance for CD version, I would suggest to create really
> light imege (kernel, xorg, lxde).

The DVD Image is ready (declared bug-free until I find one), I'm aiming
for the lightweight CD image now, which should contain at least:

- Kernel (possibly both the 32 and the 64bit version)
- UEFI Secure Boot support (like the 7.6 DVD)
- Rescue tools (testdisk, ddrescue et al.)
- Firefox
- LibreOffice
- compiz
- ADRIANE and supporting tools

I'm not yet sure if the formerly present features like the
knoppix-terminalserver, apache, tor and others will still fit, but I'll
try...

Regards

- so DVD and CD are planned, DVD image is under testing now.

It will be interesting to see how much (if any) of the recent changes in Debian's init process have been ported to Knoppix 7.6.
These changes contributed to the problems with making a "Knoppix-like" remastered live version with persistent store. (I gave up after several attempts.)
Knoppix 7.6 could become a new virtual machine favorite.