Nils Magnus & Klaus Knopper (Knoppix Linux)
Knoppix Linux, and LinuxTag
Wednesday, January 21st, 2004, -  6:30PM-8PM
IBM Building, 12th Floor, 590 Madison Ave at 57th Street

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New Linux distributions come fast and furious out of the production chute---a well understood virtuous trait for the little OS kernel---all the time. Sometimes though a special thing happens. You recognize signs of it, you know it when you see it. When someone taps you on the shoulder during Stammtisch at the most inopportune time to discuss Knoppix, say. ``Golly, these users are fervent,'' you realize.

Knoppix is a child project of LinuxTag, Europe's major Linux and free software conference. 2004 is to be LinuxTag's tenth year: June 23-26, Karlsruhe, Germany. Nils Magnus, and Klaus Knopper from LinuxTag, and Knoppix Linux developers will present at the January 21st New York Linux Users Group (NYLUG.org) monthly meeting.

They will discuss two topics. (1.) An introductory portion on LinuxTag, a volunteer run melange between a hacker conference and a major corporate expo. Now that future LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005 will take place in Boston, the nitty gritty details of launching and running a major *nix, free software, open source software conference are welcomed, especially volunteer-powered as they do it. (2.) The major portion of the meeting will focus on the Knoppix Linux distribution. Knoppix is a Linux that runs from CDROM. Although it is installed to disk if you so choose. Many avid users choose.

Knoppix is a complete Linux distribution running off a CDROM. Knoppix has a tremendous impact on Linux usability especially for first time Linux users. "Just boot it" is the slogan for almost 2.0 GB ready to use software from a single CD, thanks to an on-the-fly-decrompression scheme that even speeds up the booting. Knoppix comes with extensive hardware detection, supports writing persistent data on USB memory and can be used for data recovery as well as for Linux classes in schools or at LUG gatherings.

Klaus, the principal maintainer and mastermind of Knoppix will talk about the painful migration to 2.6 kernels, supported hardware, erring vendors giving out no proper documentation about their products and future plans of Knoppix.

You might ask, what is the power in doing real work that you can't save? Between the `live CD', and the `install it to disk' usage methods there is a third way. Using a USB pocket drive, or other removable media you can hit-and-run anyone's machine, doing real work all while using your in-hand defaults, but more importantly storing your new work. These tripod benefits is why one individual wouldn't let another recycle peacefully. But---I understand.

For More Information Visit:

• Knoppix Linux
• LinuxTag
• Klaus Knopper and Nils Magnus created a special Knoppix edition. It is more current (as of 2004/01/21) by two months from what is offered by knoppix.org. It is affectionately known as "Knoppix 3.3 NY/NYLUG edition, January 2004". It features the NYLUG-Penguin-Hack (taxi driver) logo as part of the desktop background. As well as a black/white image during bootup of the NYC Skyline during a 1999 photograph. Taken by Nils from the top of the Empire State Building. The edition includes XFS, kernel 2.4.23, new install applications to ramdisk over the net functionality, memtest and parallel bus topology testing, etc.
  
  Thanks to Billy O'Connor and George Rosamond for hosting the ISO.
  
  http://gnuyork.org/~billyoc/ny_knoppix.iso
  http://www.nycbug.org/ny_knoppix.iso
  
  Note: The ISO is 702 MBs, you must set overburn on cdrecord to make it happen.

About Nils Magnus & Klaus Knopper:

Klaus Knopper is chairman of LinuxTag e.V. and is maintainer of Knoppix. He works as a freelance engineer and consultant for Free Software Integration. He lives in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Nils Magnus is program chair of the LinuxTag Free Conference. Nils works as Senior Consultant for information security for secunet Security Networks AG in Hamburg, Germany. He is a speaker and columnist about security management, vulnerabilty assessment and computer forensics.

Also...

Nils and Klaus talk more on LinuxTag

 

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