[ale] Knoppix

[jwl at sgi.com (Jim Lynch)]

Interesting point.  I took a Knoppix cd home and booted all my systems 
with it.  Only one didn't boot.  Funny, I installed Debian on it just 
the other day.  8)  It's my wife's machine and is a homebrew system with 
a MB with sis chips on it.  All on one kind of board that I was 
surprised Linux was able to support, but it does, including video and 
network and sound.

Jim.

Michael Golden wrote:

>>That is a GREAT idea!! If the stores floor model will run KNOPPIX, it'll
>>run any thing Linux you can throw at it.
> 
> 
> It is important to note that the opposite is not necessarily true
> though. Just because Knoppix will not run on a machine does NOT
> necessarily mean that other distributions of linux will not either.
> Knoppix is a good general indicator though. I have a Dell Inspiron 5150
> laptop that I bought recently that the Knoppix CD simply will not boot
> on however I was able to boot and install gentoo and have everything I
> care about work. (except some glitches with gentoo's kernel and acpi)
> (Also, I did research the machine first and opted out of their builtin
> wireless and bought my own card so that I'd have that supported)
> 
> 
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