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Re: Any Linux Fans Here?
« on: March 28, 2007, 05:00:47 PM »
I got a Knoppix 5 DVD months ago and finally got it working several days ago after finding some hardware problems.

I have little experience yet, but it's a huge 10 Gig distro.  It seems that they bundled every software package available into it.  It also includes a number of user interfaces ( KDE, Gnome, etc) and the ability to switch between them on the fly, cool!

I like the "Initiating start-up sequence" during boot-up.  That inspired the VoiceOFAmiga.lha collection on Aminet.

I'm impressed.  I'll be exploring this for a long time.  Free modern  OS and software that runs fast on old, inexpensive hardware.  Hard to not like it.
 

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Re: Any Linux Fans Here?
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2007, 05:04:43 PM »
I've heard that a knock-off of the Amiga environment was put together.  I wonder if it includes a RamDisk.

Has any tried this?
 

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« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2007, 07:21:14 PM »
Sorry, I didn't spell it out very well.  I've heard of GUI themes with gadgets and operation that mimic the Amiga's Workbench.  I actually doubt that someone went so far as to code  a RamDisk as well.

As mentioned in another post, however, Worker is a dir util for linux and a very near clone of Dopus 4.xx.