Knoppix 3.8 released at CeBIT

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Originally Posted by chris-ukl

The '1024M' was on the principle that it will be faster for Windows to write/read things from 'paging' disk, rather than re-read it from CD. You can set it as you wish.

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It seems that Windows or QEMU doesn't like this for systems that don't have enough physical RAM. I only have 512MB on my Win2k box and the batch file would not work, QEMU would just start and quit right away. When I copied the batch file to my HD and changed -m 1024 to -m 256 and relaunched qemu-knoppix.bat, it worked fine.

On my P4 1.5GHz machine, it is running quite slow. Is this because I only gave QEMU 256MB to use, or just that my processor is too slow for this kind of emulation?

PS: Great idea though, thanks for adding it.

The real 'problem' is that Linux 2.6 kernels are set up to take 1000 timer-tick interrupts per second; and handling this in emulation takes a lot out of even a fast modern processor. If you try with a 2.4 kernel one ... there are some at http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents/, I'm seeding the DVD at the moment which will work fine, or you could try 'Knoppix 3.7 for Windows' which is set up with the 2.4 kernel.
'Kanotix for Windows' works reasonably, too, despite a '2.6' kernel; possibly because it is built with 80586 opcodes, and fewer (but more complex) opcodes seems to mean faster emulation. And the OFSET Linuxes, with their lighter-weight window manager, are also good candidates. I'll seed them again when the DVD completes; looking like late tomorrow. Connect to any torrents you want and it will get done eventually, or look at http://www.ofset.org:8080/freeduc-doc/11 and learn how to assemble the piece-parts yourself. No source code required ! And you have a working example to check things against.

It should be possible to compile the kernel with HZ=100, and get good emulated performance for everything. Let me know if you manage it. You have to rebuild the 'bootcd.iso' to get it to use the changed kernel. I rather suspect 'high performance in emulation under Windows' is not uppermost on Linus' list of desired features :-)

Of course, you could always wait for next year's 6GHz machines which are rumoured to be needed to run Longhorn !

Hey, chris-ukl, is that your site? Because I tried to sign up with it, but it couldn't send me the E-mail, it keeps coming up with an error, any idea why this is happening? I really wanted that DVD. Thanks.

Where i can download knoppix offical 3.8 release or when exactly.

First off, thanks for this chris_uk.

I got it running on the machine at home. Slowed down, but expected that from reading here.

I am now trying to run this CD on a VMWare server (running many Windows and Linux OS').
So it'll be vmware, running windows xp, running knoppix. :-)

Mouse doesn't work :-( Scrolls immediately to each corner as I move it...hrmmm

ers

Not mine. Keep trying; there must be a way.

for VMware, maybe install the VMware tools? I though they had a mouse driver in there. I haven't gotten a chance to try it in VMware (at home) I have only been running it at work with the LiveCD otherwise I'd try it myself to let you know if I had the same problem and if the tools fixed it.

Could you please just E-mail me the torrent, that would make things much easier. I'll be sure to seed it for a while by the way. My address is Killerah [AT] gmail [DOT] com
Thanks.

hello all

here is the link to download the knoppix 3.8 Cebit-Edition:

http://www.winfuture.de/downloadstar...2431,1349.html

have a lot of fun.

greetings mario

knoppix should never be put on a site with pop ups!!!