What a blast from the past. Seeing Knoppix on my room mate's PC in 2004 is what led to a 20+ year ongoing adventure with Linux, Debian, gaming on Linux, compiling games with a friggin compiler and automake, programming, it all started with that distro.
niko323 8 hours ago||
Knoppix: The OG. No AI was used.
teddyh 8 hours ago||
Wait, I thought the official web page for Knoppix was <https://knoppix.net/>? What is this knopper.net?
moeffju 7 hours ago|||
Knoppix.net literally says this on their homepage:
> Knoppix.net is a resource for users, developers, and testers of Knoppix. The official website for Knoppix is on Klaus Knopper's website at knopper.net.
tnelsond4 8 hours ago||
Knoppix used to have a really good desktop environment with effects and games. I think it had KDE with compiz-fusion. That was awesome. Now it's just bland lxde.
rckclmbr 7 hours ago|
compiz was amazing, I remember playing with the wobbly windows for hours
nosioptar 6 hours ago||
If you like Knoppix, Slitaz is also worth checking out. I think slitaz has more updated release at the moment.
letsdelta 5 hours ago||
Oh man, I saved a lot of friends files from crashed windows with this. I was like a wizard.
krekr 6 hours ago||
The go-to live cd that helped me fix many Windows XP installs! Thanks for the memory.
I first thought there was something new about it
StackBPoppin 9 hours ago||
Isn't this what eventually became Kali linux? I remember Knoppix and Whoppix then I didn't really check on the projects for a while then Kali came along
lordleft 9 hours ago||
I remember burning this on a CD as a preteen. It's what got me into Linux. It blew my mind that an OS could be live-loaded off a disk. Ever since then, I tried to daily drive linux, but came back to Windows again and again for gaming...until this year.
janderson3 8 hours ago|||
I remember using PHLAK (Professional Hackers Linux Assault Kit) that I'm pretty sure was based on Knoppix. I don't know if PHLAK actually had any pedigree heading into Kali, but Kali stepped up when PHLAK stopped.
rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 9 hours ago|||
Kali was Backtrack before which was built on Whax which was based on Slackware.
ivanmontillam 7 hours ago||
I fondly remember Backtrack 2, running as a Live distro. I remember going to university labs where a teacher taught us a couple of techniques or so. Great days.
jpfromlondon 8 hours ago|||
There was a Knoppix STD (security tools distro), I remember using that in the mid/early 00s.
ivanmontillam 7 hours ago||
That's such an unfortunate name for a good, reputable distro.
zer0zzz 7 hours ago||
Klaus Knopper, now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
lgeorget 8 hours ago|
That's a blast from the past. I remember repairing my main install from a minimal Knoppix on my 1GB USB drive... Good old times.