O hai Knoppix!
March 12, 2009 by Clair Ching
Filed under General
I’ve successfully download the latest version of Knoppix and it’s now running live from my USB drive. Awesome, ain’t it? I used unetbootin but I was careless at first when I defined which device I wanted to use. Apparently I chose a different partition so my USB drive wasn’t recognized. The netbook wasn’t booting from it. Anyhow, it’s working now and here’s a screenshot of Knoppix at work.
Image Credit: Clair Ching, 2009.
Some of the interesting things about this version of Knoppix:
1. My wireless works out of the box. (Look ma, no tweaks!)
2. The user interface looks very similar to something…
3. There’s Compiz right away. I finally got to see Compiz funkiness on my own netbook.
4. Clean-looking user interface.
5. Media playing is not fussy. I was able to play avi files as well as mp3s without a hitch.
6. There’s an option to try bluetooth connectivity so you could surf the internet.
There are some things that aren’t quite perfect yet:
1. Dual screen is not enabled by default. Because the screens are just mirrors of each oher. Orz
2. There aren’t too many choices in terms of default applications.
I want to test this on my machine a bit more but the printing and internet access will have to wait.
For now, I will give you some screenshots I took of Knoppix. 
1. Video playback
Image credit: Clair Ching, 2009.
2. Music playback
3. Installing of components
Image credit: Clair Ching, 2009.
4. UMTS/modem setup options
Image credit: Clair Ching, 2009.
Nice review,as always,prof Claire.
How about viewing YouTube- is flash enabled in Knoppix ?
Do we have to jump thru hoops to get flash working?
I’ve taken your advice and installed Knoppix. It works almost 100%. The one really obnoxious thing for me is, the window decorations have these weird streaky bars across them, and I can’t figure out how to change the window theme. the Openbox window decoration manager doesn’t actually change it. Do you know how to actually change the window manager theme?
@dar let me take it out for a spin again before I reply.
@ben really? could you post a screenshot?
I still use Knoppix 5.1.1 and 5.3.1, as 6.0.1 seems to remove a large number of useful features, eg, sshd.
Knoppix, used to be the gold standard, now its slipping.