Monday, June 05, 2006

KNOPPIX LINUX 5.0.1


Klaus Knopper has announced the availability of the first public release of KNOPPIX 5 live CD and DVD: "At CeBIT 2006, a preview of Knoppix 5 was introduced, which has now been updated with the new kernel and udev hotplug management. What's new: Linux kernel 2.6.17 (rc); X.Org Version 7.0; detection of onboard IDE raid controllers and raid disk components; udev + hwsetup for automatic hardware detection; KDE 3.5.2, GNOME 2.12 from Debian unstable; OpenOffice.org 2.0.2; transparent write access for NTFS partitions; new Knoppix installer, now also with the possibility to update existing installations of Knoppix...." Read the full release announcement on the project's home page.

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Gee, what a great blog you have.. So much work you have put in to it. Amazing.
Keep up the good work.

12:09 AM  
Anonymous said...

Accelerated KNOPPIX 1.0 CD is apparently based on the Knoppix 4.0.2 CD. Does anyone know if the Knoppix 5.0.1 CD has as good or better boot times as the Accelerated KNOPPIX or if regular KNOPPIX will be using this "Accelerated" approach in the future?
Thanks

5:09 AM  

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