Quote Originally Posted by BajaPorsche
.... 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).