Greetings,

KNOPPIX 6.0 CD as a substantial advance in live
media Linux. From the live CD originator we have
a new laboratory to sharpen our ideas and learn.
If at first glance you dismiss it as having
a narrow focus for a small group of users,
you are missing out on exciting advances
in computer history.

Each KNOPPIX is a research project exploring
new technology and engineering. Each is a
gift in the Open Source tradition. So if
you want to take a trip, pull up the easy
chair, put in the disk, put on a blind fold
and see a new world. To experience ORCA
with a gui desktop pick option 10 and start
up gimp. Ok, you are allowed a tiny peek hole,
but not enough to read the menus.

A great new feature and a departure from
previous knoppix live CD offerings is that
the PCMan File Manager is all set to let you
write to your usb thumbdrive or fat32 partition.
NTFS and ext3 systems are still off limit maintaining
the knoppix commitment to preventing inadvertent
disk access while being free to experiment.

Don't be disheartened if each knoppix is not the next
hyped operating system to which you must instantly
convert. There is rather good commercial software
that works that way.

Why all this concern about accessibilty? Well,
we have learned that text messaging while driving
a locomotive is not a good idea. We can benefit
greatly by understanding that human accessibility
with machines is an important area of research.
I am expecting KNOPPIX to keep giving us more
surprises; how about a platform for speech recognition?

Sure, I operate from the awesome KNOPPIX DVD
and I am anxiously awaiting the next.

Best Wishes
paradocs