Just Tried Knoppix!

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 23 Jan 2004, Richard Steven Hack wrote

Yes, I know that now. But read THIS page -
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mandrakemove/
and tell me where you see the word "free" anywhere.

I agree. The first time I went to download MandrakeMove I gave up -- I
assumed "join the Mandrake Club later" meant that it was going to let
me try the software, but that a forced "joining" of the club was going
to be required at some point in the future.

When I downloaded it from an ftp mirror site, I realised that
Mandrake's site had (intentionally?) downplayed the availability of a
free and unencumbered version.

 

[DC]

Yes, and if you go to THIS page -
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mandrakemove/
[...]

Where do you see the word "free" on that page. What I see is the
phrase "Buy Now!" on the top of the page.

NOW do you see why I was mislead? And why I think Mandrake
deliberately excluded the word "free" - or anything similar - from
that page?

Yes, if you go to the MandrakeSoft (the "Company") site, you can expect
this -- they are the commercial branch -- and are in the French
equivalent of US Chapter 11, incidentally.

If you want the freebies, go to this page, where it's all about the
distro(s) itself:

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en-us/

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

Yes, if you go to the MandrakeSoft (the "Company") site,

I go where Google sends me.

you can expect
this -- they are the commercial branch -- and are in the French
equivalent of US Chapter 11, incidentally.

Didn't they come out of that? I just heard they made a quarterly
profit or revenue increase or something this last reporting period.

If you want the freebies, go to this page, where it's all about the
distro(s) itself:

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en-us/

Yes, now that I know there has to be a place to get it free, I can
certainly find it.

 

[DC]

I go where Google sends me.

A good practice, that, in most cases. }:O)

Didn't they come out of that?

Not out of the woods, yet.

I just heard they made a quarterly
profit or revenue increase or something this last reporting period.

This is correct.

http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/newsletter/sn040123

Yes, now that I know there has to be a place to get it free, I can
certainly find it.

Cool.

 

[mcubed]

And here are two of the burgeoning breed of Knoppix remasters, that
enable you to fit Linux into smaller and smaller space:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
http://featherlinux.berlios.de/

Another one that I find especially intriguing is Morphix:
http://morphix.sourceforge.net/modules/news/

As the name implies, it's goal is to be 'morphable' easily, so that guru
developers and budding nixheads can harness the power of Knoppix's
excellent hardware detection routines in their own customized
distributions with different specialities. There are four versions (all
live CD distros that can be installed to one's hard drive if one wishes)
at the website, including a gamer's ISO:

"ISO's with XFCE4, Gnome2.4, KDE3.1, a game iso and a large number of
derivatives are available. Morphix is an Open Source/Free software
project, based on Debian GNU/Linux and Knoppix. For more information,
check the FAQ.”

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