Knoppix Linux

I love Linux like growing number of people worldwide. The first time I got introduced to Linux was in 1997 when I installed the slackware version 4.0 of Linux on my home computer and it took it almost a two days to up my X Window running and three more days and a lot of help from my equally enthusiastic friends to get on the internet. For next couple of years we played a lot with linux and my final project was an improvement on GUI interface and we aptly named that EzlinuxGuru. For next 4 yrs I hardly get to work on Linux as my former company (STMicroelectronics) used Windows NT and my use of linux was very limited I was using Cygwin which is a unix emulator on windows. Few months back my internet service provider got friendly with me and burned a CD of knoppix linux for me. Today one of my friend came to me for help regarding the problem with his computer and I decided to showcase him the new linux and he was impressed. Why ? The knoppix version of linux is one of the coolest distribution of linux. One doesn't need to install it can be run from the CD itself. One doesn't need to configure anything. You can access your hard disk, Browse the internet, play your audio and video files (including mp3, xvid ,divx, DVD etc) Use can use open office. It even detected easily my usb mouse and digital camera on its own. It comes with mozilla browser too. I would suggest you to burn a copy of knoppix and keep it in a safe place it could act as a rescue disk when your window has crashed and you are in fix. I may even suspect that you might altogether give up your windows in favour of this distribution of Linux. If you have never used linux, I believe this could be your safest and most friendly introduction to Linux. It is as easy as putting the Knoppix linux CD into the CD drive and restart your computer and it will automatically detect everything all the devices connected to your PC and will configure it and the best thing is nothing is installed on your hard disk. Once you log off from knoppix linux you can safely boot to your windows. For more information you should visit thier website. Many vendors also sell knoppix CD for as little as $3 if you cannot download the iso image from thier website. The problem with other distributions of linux is that you have to bother about system partition, dual boot and getting familiar with tools like fips, rpm etc but knoppix has eleminated all that learning. Give it a shot you will find linux very friendly.