KNOPPIX 101

[BajaPorsche]

You mean crackers, hackers are [usually] friendly people who are experts at using computers, and, or have programming experience.

There is an advantage against crackers, and malware (eg. spyware, and virus'), mostly because Windows is the primary target for attackers, but also because you need root access to do any real damage to a computer running Linux.

I'm new to even putting on my anti-spyware, just put up a firewall last week.....it's amazing to see all the "access denied" pop ups from ssources trying to access my comp...... maybe i used the wrong term, if so, my apologies!

BajaPorsche wrote:
I thought the hard drive was the mechanical part that contains the softwar...well I'm confusing myself now.

Harry Kuhman wrote
The hard drive is the electro-mechanical part that contains data including software. Why do you no longer think this?

bajaporsche response
Thanks for confirming that for me....that's what I thought the hard drive was at first.

In all... I take it that Knoppix is somewhat of a sample of what Linux is capable of.
Knoppix is at no cost, capable of performing all these software applications, from a bootable CD.
And, Knoppix does not Neccessarily need to use windows...it has Wine....but that knoppix can use windows if the user chooses to....... this part i don't understand yet, but if I re-read the other posts a few morte times, I should understand it.

Here is another question I have, but the answer might already be posted, I just have to re-read the other posts.....can a firewall be installed onto knoppix, without messing with the original intent of knoppix....(kinda like a simple application of a selected firewall, that is pretty safe to insatll for beginners, without messing up knoppix performance)

sorry for being almost non coherant, but there were too many terms i was unfamiliar with in the other posts....and I didn't want to make assumptions....esecially when i don't really know what was said....
thanks to everyone who posted a response

[Harry Kuhman]

.... And, Knoppix does not Neccessarily need to use windows...it has Wine....but that knoppix can use windows if the user chooses to....... this part i don't understand yet, but if I re-read the other posts a few morte times, I should understand it.

Actually, I would say that Knoppix does not use Windows and cannot use Windows, but exactly what use means is unclear and vague. Knoppix is a Live CD based distribution that includes an Operating System (Linux), Windows is a completely different OS. Knoppix can read Windows disks. It can write to many Windows disk types (partitions) but not to the NTFS type partition (although it can read it). It can exchange data with Windows, and can even network (connection of multiple computers, sharing files and even some hardware like printers) with Windows. But Linux (and so Knoppix) does not run Windows programs.

There are efforts to be able to run programs written for Windows under Linux (without rewriting the source code) . One of these is WINE. At this point WINE will run some Windows programs, but it will not run most programs that use DirectX or other complex graphics and it will not run many programs that do not need DirectX. The bottom line is don't build expectations that things that run under Windows can be run under Linux without getting Linux versions of those programs (sometimes Linux versions are available, sometimes thay are not).

[pureone]

dont worrie everyone has to start off learning somewere.

knoppix has a firewall built into it. such as gaurd dog which you can config. shutdown knoppix your configuration will be destroyed and you will have to config it each time you boot knoppix. you can how ever use certain software (klik) to install firewalls like firestarter on the fly. but as once you turn off the computer it will be gone.

[BajaPorsche]

wow.....this is why I asking about Knoppix....... I thought someone had cracked or hacked, whatever the proper term is, and was denying me access to discussion forums again...
thanks for the info... I usually get confused at this point.... but I want to ask questions about Knoppix and the internet.... but I will post that on KNOPPIX 102...
thanks all for the freindly advice!

[gildedlink]

BajaPorsche, i think I understand what confused you about the Hard Drive thing. This is from my understanding of this, so try to bear with me. The Hard Drive stores the programs, the RAM (Memory) Runs those programs.

Knoppix, as a live-cd, loads itself into the memory and runs from there. There is a small part of the HD taken up while it is running, but those files are automatically deleted when you shutdown/reboot the computer.

Again this is my experience, I have seen created Temporary files in the boot partition of my Hard drive (boot partition= part of the HD devoted to booting the machine, not the windows one normally) but they were generally very small.

For the email question you had, it sort of depends. Now obviously you need a connection to the internet, but once that is established, if it's broadband you can easily access a web based email account like yahoo or gmail. This has come in quite handy for me when I've gone to hotels, all I had to do was plug in the ethernet cable before booting, say yes to the hotel service page and check my gmail account easily. Yes, you need some sort of service, but you don't need to buy an email account (like outlook, aol, etc) if you already use a web based email account. I sorta had a hard time explaining that, i hope I didn't confuse you much though.

I have more but I think those questions are posted in the 102 topic so i'll post there now. Hope that helped ^_^