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Knoppix goes gold with v5 liveCD
Jun. 05, 2006

Klaus Knopper and his Knoppix team announced the first public release of the Knoppix 5 live CD and DVD on June 2. The Debian-based distribution, which requires no installation of software on the user's hard disk, features a 2.6.17-rc kernel and KDE as the default desktop.

"At CeBIT 2006, a preview of Knoppix 5 was introduced, which has now been updated with the new kernel and udev hotplug management," the Germany-based Knopper said in the release announcement.

What's new in this release, as listed by the project team:
  • 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
  • a new Knoppix installer -- now also with the option to update existing installations of Knoppix
Standard features include:
  • Choice of GNOME Office, KOffice, or OpenOffice
  • Debian package manager
  • Abiword 2.4.4 word processor
  • amaroK 1.3.9 mdia player
  • Evolution 2.6.1 email client
  • Gimp 2.2.11 graphics editor
Knoppix is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices, and other peripherals. Knoppix can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos, the team said.

You can download the English language editions of Knoppix 5 free of charge in DVD format here, or in CD format here. The files are also available via BitTorrent.

You can view some screen shots, courtesy of OSDir.com, here.



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