I've wanted to try out Linux for a long time and I was recommended Knoppix. Needless to say I was very impressed and went out and Bought Mandrake within a couple of weeks. After a while, however, either Windows or a program on Windows corrupted the HD that mandrake was on. It took me best part of a week to repair my drive. I re-installed Mandrake about a month later but on a diffrent physical drive to Windows. Again same thing happened. I have since decided that it is a liability to run Linux together with Windows. I know many people do it but it just doesn't want to work for me. But on all those occasions it's thanks to Knoppix that I both still had an OS even though My hard-drives were trashed and I still had access to the net where I could ask for help. Now the only Linux I run is Knoppix. As I mostly use Windows anyway, Knoppix does enough for me to just play around with. I may re-consider installing Linux again but this time it will be on a drive all to itself. My experience of Knoppix has been ... It's a godsend. I've recommended it to all I know .