>hi

hi, I am Fabian, upcoming author of a new installer, if I ever find the time to complete it, but I'm optimistic!

Playning stage is successful so far...

>i just installed 2 knoppix on the hard drives of two complete newbies, who knew only >windows before (including my mom!) and they feel really fine about it!!



>though they wouldn't have been able to do the hd install themselves, they're now very >comfortable with using their system!

Thats nice to hear.

>i had though to do a few customization and things, and here are a few things i thought >about, during all this:

Nice to hear for me


>- the "KNOPPIX" menu in the kde default profile doesn't stay after an HD install (minor)

That is wanted as sudo is no longer working. This will be solved by prefixing it with kdesu.

>- when scsi was once detected over ide, after installing a SCSI board detection doesn't work automatically until once forced by modprobing.

interesting

>- the KDM default language was tchčque or something (minor)

german. Hm, written down!

>- why not using supermount for the CDrom and floppy

You mean automount, yeah it should work like from CD.

>- why isn't there a very simple GUI like "configuring your internet connexiont" which would >give the choice between using a DHCP, pppoe, setupping kppp, etc... like making >abstraction of the physical medium used by the end-user?

Nice Idea, but doesn't the knoppix-networking menu try to do this ?

>- why isn't there a script for grabbing more non-free stuff than flash? (like realplayer, >libdecss, ... )

There is but it is for running from CD-Rom only.

See: http://www.linuxfaqs.de/knoppix/

Also see in this forum some threads below [ANNOUNCE] alsa from CD working ...

If you have the system installed you can grab the DEBs directly from the right sites.

>- why not including a few skinz for xmms? =)) (this may sound stupid, but this impress people *alot*

Do you have some free space I (Klaus) could download ?

>- why not including gkrellm (when writing this i'm not sure it's not included already?...)

Until last Knoppix there was ksim, which seemed exactly like that, don't know if in new upcoming version this will be missing.

Problem with this is: gkrellm does need gnome1-libraries we will not long have on knoppix.

>- why not making a very simple script, upon install, that would change the name of the >default "knoppix" user to the user's choice? a "what is your name?" question at the >beginning of the installation process would make that completely seamless to the user..

Nice idea.



>i hope these few things will be useful to you!

Yep, thx. (I'm not maintainer of Knoppix, but working with Klaus)

>i say to everyone whom i give a knoppix CD to (8 or 9 so far!) : "if you like it, copy it 2 >times and give it to 2 people you like who have never heard of linux."

That is a very nice idea!

>many thanx an congratulations for surch a beautiful and well runned project!!

Thank you for writing this. It was helpful!

cu

Fabian