Knoppix is cool.

[Edgedamage]

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
pretty cool op system that runs from the CD.

[Yander]

Yes, it is very handy to be able to carry around linux with you. It is also nice because when my hard drive crashed I booted from my knoppix CD and was still able to go on the internet.

[PacManFan]

Yeah, Knoppix ROCKS!, I booted from the cd last week just to check it out, and I seriously considered switching from XP permanantly.

-PMF

[Buddabing]

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
pretty cool op system that runs from the CD.

That's cool.

Speaking of cool, I stumbled across Damn Small Linux today:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org

You can fit a whole desktop, suite of applications including web browser & email, Linux MAME, and a bunch of ROMS on a pen drive!

[Santoro]

You can fit a whole desktop, suite of applications including web browser & email, Linux MAME, and a bunch of ROMS on a pen drive!

Very cool.  Can you actually boot from one?  I have never tried.

[Buddabing]

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Very cool.  Can you actually boot from one?  I have never tried.

It depends on your BIOS boot options. Most newer motherboards allow it.

[JesterDEV]

Knoppix and Damn Small Linux have saved my butt many a time when I have to do some serious repairs to my 'Buddha Box' do to power outages. I'd run Windows instead but I can't stand it.   To many viruses, blue screen's of death, random crashes, not mention it's evil.  

Not too evil for my cab though.  

Seriously need to buy a backup power supply someday.

[SirPoonga]

I started installing gentoo on my hd.  I liked the livecd.  Sheesh.  The install is insane.  It compiles the OS as it installs it.  It probably wouln't have been so bad if I was able to type in smp in the boot options before the boot loader started

[Edgedamage]

Ugh as much as I was falling in love with Knoopix. My new motherboard  won't work with it at all it trys to start and the monitor shuts down. So I tested advanceCD on the board and get this message "unable to start video emulation no drivers" I guess this board is too new for Lunix. ECS L7VMM3.

[GadgetGeek]

SirPoonga, which stage did you start with on your Gentoo install?  starting from stage one took me like a week to get through it (on a P120).  next time I'll start from either stage3 or the GRP.

If you are ever looking to pick up a cheap used computer (and you have to actually pay for it), knoppix (or knoppix-mame or AdvanceCD) is good to have with to see if the machine will handle mame.  I imagine without too much work, a bootable FreeDOS running Vantage and ArcadeOS would be nice as well.

Personally, my favorite is AdvanceCD for this purpose.  That CD and a portable CP and you can have an instant Mame party (especially if you are going to be trapped at the in-laws for a few days.

[Edgedamage]

Hehe advanceCD is great for work comps you get a gaming fix with no trace.

[SirPoonga]

I started at stage3.  I gave up.  Runnign on a single celeron 366 is just annoying.  I'm going to download Mandrake.

I got sick of redhat and the issues I was having.  I need a replacement.  I jsut want an apache webserver with php and mysql (for development before code goes onto fe.donkeyfly.com) and a pvpgn server using mysql.  I couldn't get pvpgn to see mysql in redhat.  Plus I was having other issues with redhat like not being able to telnet into it no matter what I tried or configured.