Why Knoppix 3.4 is delayed again ...

[moustache]

You guys talking about multiple cds (cd1 and cd2) seem to have forgotten that when you boot from the knoppix cd, you can't remove the cd to put in a second cd since many of the apps on the first cd are decompressed on the fly and it needs the first cd in all the time to run the linux os.

Klause, pleas put us out of our misery on this thread and release the old Knoppix 3.4 c't iso so we can get back to complaining about bugs again.

Moustache

[Snow]

Just do something and put the stinkin thing out for cryin out loud.

This is more painfull than watching Lindows screw up the OS every time they do a new release.

Please just take out the least popular things, Leave Mozilla and OO.o in it. Give it a new fresh look, dress up the Icons a little and put it out.

[Rink]

You guys talking about multiple cds (cd1 and cd2) seem to have forgotten that when you boot from the knoppix cd, you can't remove the cd to put in a second cd since many of the apps on the first cd are decompressed on the fly and it needs the first cd in all the time to run the linux os.

Well, you can always do a "poor man's install" by copying the Knoppix file from the CD to the HD. That frees up the CD.

Hopefully a 2 disc set would have the mechanism to copy the second disc's core file(s) across too.

[rduke15]

copying the Knoppix file from the CD to the HD

What HD? The whole point of Knoppix is that the hard drive is not needed. There may not be any, or it may be write protected, or NTFS only, or whatever. Requiring the use of a hard drive is not acceptable.

[iwod]

are we going to get any official reponse as to why and when are we going to see 3.4 coming out?

[Rink]

>What HD? The whole point of Knoppix is that the hard drive
>is not needed. There may not be any, or it may be write
>protected, or NTFS only, or whatever. Requiring the use of a
>hard drive is not acceptable.

Well, granted, lack of a hard drive would be a problem!

But with a NTFS system or a write protected system you should be able to copy the knoppix file under dos or windows.

For any other application, one CD should probably give you the tools you need to work with such a system.

We are merely talking about placing marginal applications on a second CD. We are not talking about the entire functionality of the base CD being compomised.

[rossgbaker2]

Just a reminder. KDE 3.2.2 will be released within 24 hours. Will it compound this problem? I assume that it will be a minimal impact since it is largely bug fixes, but who knows?

[chazmims]

any software i want to use i can apt-get. but moving from 2.4 to 2.6 kernel using apt-get has never worked for me smoothly. i dont care what software come with knoppix, i won't use most of it anyway. livecd is a nice feature, but i use knoppix because its the easiest way to get debian to my harddrive. i have a dvd burner and would use a dvd image if one were available.

[hkfczrqj]

Just a reminder. KDE 3.2.2 will be released within 24 hours. Will it compound this problem? I assume that it will be a minimal impact since it is largely bug fixes, but who knows?

Now 3.2.2 is out in the wild. Take a look at the change log. Just bug fixes... I guess the overall size hasn't changed much. So it will be nice to have 3.2.2 in knoppix. Now, the problem is still as tough as before, but not tougher...

Cheers...

[gordon8452]

depending on when knoppix 3.4 is released it may e only 3.2.1 in there as it doesnt matter when kde does releases so much as it depends on when the release make it into debian testing, which currently kde 3.2.1 is still in there