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Originally posted by Tshabet
I'm glad that Knoppix seems to be getting more popular, I've been using it for maybe a year and it's just great. Who needs a hard drive?
I've been using slackware and FreeBSD for a while as well, although at work we're on IIS servers so I'm forced back into the windows world.
Well, the problem I have with not having a hard drive is I'm not able to save anything I'm working on. However, my Knoppix disks are on CD-R. Maybe if I put them on CD-RWs, I can save some of my work - I mean, it's worth a try.

As of now, whatever I would like to save I end up transferring via email to my account, then downloading on the XP side. It's a PITA for several reasons - one being the whole "save as" issue in Microsoft Word from Office.org. Plus, I don't like my work going out into cyberspace.

Then, of course, when working off a live CD like Knoppix 3.6, one ends up re-entering all their values like email addressing and peripheral set up like printers, etc.

Otherwise, if one can deal with all that, Knoppix 3.6 is terrific. In my case, I guess I'm just going to have to install it permanently on a real hard drive.
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