I do not remember when it was, in fact I remember rather little, but I know that the first time I tried Linux on my own computer I did it thanks to whoever told me about the penguin system and a distribution that he mentioned that it would allow me to test Linux from a CD. In fact, I have looked for that CD for this article, but it seems that I threw it away because little or nothing could offer me some fifteen years later. What has not been so long is KNOPPIX 8.6.0, the latest version of the operating system that I arrive last Saturday.
KNOPPIX, named after Klaus Knopper, is an operating system specially designed to run as a Live Session, but it is also possible to install it to run as native. The first version of the operating system was released in 2000 and much (or all) of its fame is due to the fact that it was one of the first operating systems that could be run completely from a CD without performing any type of installation. Years later, virtually all Linux distributions followed suit, and KNOPPIX was pushed into the background.
KNOPPIX 8.6.0 Highlights
KNOPPIX 8.6.0 has arrived as a new version, but most of the changes are updated packages like the following:
- KNOPPIX 8.6.0 becomes based on Debian 10 Buster.
- Linux 5.2.5.
- Xorg 7.7.
- Wine 4.0.
- Qemu-kvm 3.1.
- Chromium 76.0.3809.87, Firefox 68.0.1 with Ublock Origin and Noscript.
- LibreOffice 6.2.0-rc2.
- GIMP 2.10.8.
- Blender 2.79.b, Freecad 0.18, Meshlab 1.3.2, Open Scad 2015.03 for 3D prototypes, Slic3r 1.3 for layers of 3D prints.
- Kden live 18.12.3.
- Openshot 2.4.3.
- Photofilmstrip 3.7.1.
- OBS Studio 22.0.3.
- Mediathekview 13.2.1.
- ownCloud 2.5.1 and NextCloud 2.5.1.
- Caliber 3.39.1.
- Godot3 3.0.6.
- RipperX 2.8.0.
- Handbrake 1.2.2.
- Gerberas 1.1.0.
KNOPPIX 8.6.0 includes support for 32bit and 64bit. At first it is only available in English and German, but it can be set in another language, such as Spanish, if at the "boot" prompt we write "knoppix lang = es", without the quotes. We can also open it on desktops other than LXDE, like GNOME, if we add "knoppix desktop = gnome". It is not the simplest or most intuitive way, but this is how they have designed it. And something to keep in mind if you are going to test the system in a virtual machine: that it is designed to run in a Live Session can cause it to behave strangely and do things like capture the mouse and keyboard when it shouldn't. that can be a problem.
KNOPPIX 8.6.0 is available from this link, where we can download images that exceed 4GB. Do you think KNOPPIX deserves a gap between the operating systems to take into account or is its time already past?
