knoppix 5.0 live dvd just sucks !!!

[FlameWeasel]

Distro 1-15 : doesn't DO what Windows does.

And thank the Holy Trinity of Tux, Torvalds, and Knopper for that!

I haven't gotten a single virus in two years. I haven't had to wipe and reinstall my hard drive. I haven't had to deal with the joys of antispyware antivirus antimalware firewall wholebodycomputercondom programs. My machine hasn't lost half of my files because Windoze crashed in the middle of a write and fried the drive's FAT table.

For the exactly two Windoze programs that I still am forced (by clients) to use for work, I can take out the CD, UNPLUG FROM THE NETWORK, boot up using my decrepit 8gb drive containing a bare install of Win2K (apologizing profusely to the poor little toaster), get the garbage done, shut down, put in the CD, and reboot back into a system that allows me to string together a bunch of commands through pipes so that I can accomplish my job in a tenth the time it would take under Windoze.

Meanwhile, my 250GB drive, which contains roughly twenty million U.S. dollars of other people's engineering data at the moment, is isolated from all of the fourteen year old pinheads who think that it's funny to screw up people's lives.

One of my formerly-least-favorite tasks is downloading and managing reams of document image data, often several thousand pages at a shot. Knoppix handles it fine; it has all of the TIFF and PDF tools that I need to convert them into Acrobat documents, and now that I've put the commands into one convenient little script to run overnight, it's a breeze. Everything happens automagically. On Windoze, not only would I have to install a dozen packages, I'd have to pay dearly for them too. And scripting? Forget it. ActiveState's Windoze Perl (not supported by your butty-buddies in Redmond) could try, but it has a distinct tendency to barf after a few hours of churning data. And I'm not aware of anything else in all of Windoze-dom that could even try.

So enjoy your Windows system, dude. And if you ever decide to post something worthwhile, let us all know.

Hail Tux! Hail Torvalds! Hail Knopper! We sing hosannas to thy names. . . .

[zavalita2002]

Has anyone understood something of what he said ?
Anything related to my post ?!

[RandomGoon]

Has anyone understood something of what he said ?
Anything related to my post ?!

Why yes, yes I did. I think the point, or to be more precise - counterpoint, FlameWeasel was making was that he was more than satisfied with the functionality of Knoppix vs. Windows. I found it to be an excellent argument with very little hostile content.

But, just in case you missed the bleedingly obvious - FlameWeasel has no problems with Knoppix. For my part I too have no major issues with Knoppix; it does exactly what I need it to do. And yes, I still use XP too.

Anyway, for my part, I'm waiting for the "official" 5.0 English download before I make any judgements on whether or not "Knoppix sux".

'Goon

[Harry Kuhman]

Anyway, for my part, I'm waiting for the "official" 5.0 English download before I make any judgements on whether or not "Knoppix sux".

I agree completely. Klaus decides when Knoppix should be available for download, and I don't think anyone is a better judge than he for when his work should be downloadable on the Internet. These unofficial distributions do a real disservice to the Linux community.

[torp]

i am really enjoying the 5.0 DVD, then again i'm not addicted to winblows anymore. i have three machines, the main running the live DVD 5.0, and two laptops running DSL. I run openoffice on all three and have file compatibility with the winblows office suite. i don't think the 5.0 DVD sucks at all, as a matter of fact it is loaded with so many outstanding productivity tools, i don't think i'll ever use them all.

torp