Hello,

Looking around in the knoppix forums , I would like to tell why I did put the knoppix 5.3.1 dvd onto my hard disk.

Let me start to tell you that I don't have windows from microsoft onto my PC. I do have Ubuntu installed on this new PC and are very satisfied with it.

However using "synaptic" I do not want to install too many programs for testing out different applications, everybody knows that there are a lot of them. Often you have to try, to find the one you prefer most. I regularly discover useful programs and I do not want to add and delete them on my Ubuntu system. Which is also a Debian based one.

Well here I use Knoppîx dvd which has a lot of programs installed on it. I do not install extra programs on the 5.3.1 Knoppix.

To test many multimedia programs I do need my cdrom-dvd. Also to test burning programs etc. so I did install Knoppix onto a hard disk. Grub is my friend to tell it, if I like to start Ubuntu or Knoppix.

Let me add that I installed a persistent home directory for knoppix. This to prevent that configuration files and bookmarks and so on, are lost on a reboot.

On this knoppix dvd are so many programs installed that I can live with this until a new version will be available . I will install it and find, I hope a lot of new possibilities to try out.

In the mean time I do have my Ubuntu system the way I want it, to continue work.
Eliminating the risk to screw up the Ubuntu system with new untested programs. Before downloading something new with "Synaptic" I use it under knoppix.

I use the Knoppix dvd because it has so many applications installed and at least, this applications have been tested together on this Debian distribution. :P

Lucien.