KNOPPIX 6.7.1 / ADRIANE 1.4 - Live CD / DVD General information about Microknoppix 'Microknoppix' is a complete rewrite of the boot system from version 6.0 and up, with the following features: • High compatibility with its Debian base: Aside from configuration files, nothing gets changed in Debians standard installation. • Accellerated boot procedure: Independently from the usual SysV bootscripts, multiple tasks of system initialization are run in parallel, so that interactive desktops are reached very fast. • is used as graphical environment, which is a very slim and fast desktop with extremely short starttime and low resource requirements. Because of its GTK2 base, LXDE works together nicely with screenreader. • Amount of installed software has been greatly reduced in the CD-version, so that custom remasters based on CD are possible again. On the DVD edition, KDE4 and Gnome with many applications originating from these popular desktops are available.

Do not create a data CD with the iso file on it, but find out how to create a CD from an iso image. 4) See if it has worked so far by inserting the CD in the CD drive. When 'auto run' is enabled, your browser opens a page called 'KNOPPIX INFO'. 5) Boot from the new CD. Maybe you have to. It allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Knoppix, Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply yourown Linux.iso file if you've.

• Network configuration is being handled by with nm-applet in graphics mode, and textual GUIs in textmode (compatible to Debians /etc/network/interfaces specification). • A persistent image for saving personal settings and additionally installed programs, KNOPPIX/knoppix-data.img, is supported on the boot device, optionally encrypted with AES/256bit. In general, installation as live system on flash disk is recommended. New about the 6.7.1 version. • Version 6.7.1 has been updated from Debian/squeeze with the usual picks from Debian 'testing' and 'unstable', and uses Kernel 3.0.4 and xorg 7.6 (core 1.11) for supporting currentmost computer hardware.

• experimental free, accelerated graphics via kernel mode settings (KMS), • OpenOffice ->, • (DVD only), • (CD+DVD), • Optional 64-bit Kernel via boot option 'knoppix64', supporting systems with more than 4GB of RAM and chroot to 64-bit installations for system rescue tasks (DVD version only). • New boot option (example) 'bootfrom=/dev/sda1/knoppix-test.iso', for mounting the Knoppix compressed file system from a stored iso file directly. • Boot option 'grub', for starting a bootloader shell in system rescue tasks.

• ADRIANE: Updated to version 1.4 of the non-visual desktop framework, now using cuneiform as engine for text recognition of scanned texts, enhanced support for several cellphone models via gammu (SMS function). • (new in DVD version), a program for controlling the mouse by moving your head, using the webcam. • Workaround: Modified boot process for starting in Virtualbox without delay. • Bugfixes: Repaired 'Install additional software' menu (flash, Fonts etc.), Virtualbox Kernel module, braille devices in orca, keyboard navigation in ADRIANE. (Audio Desktop Reference Implementation And Networking Environment) is a talking menu system, which is supposed to make work and internet access easier for computer beginners, even if they have no sight contact to the computers monitor. A graphical environment with also talking programs and arbitrary magnification using, is another option. CD / DVD / USB Versions - which files do I need?

The current public beta release of KNOPPIX 6.7.1 CD and DVD is available in different variants for download at the. Boot options (can be entered in the startup screen) adriane Start ADRIANE with talking text desktop knoppix Start KNOPPIX with graphical environment knoppix64 Same as above, with 64-bit kernel (DVD version only) knoppix/adriane acpi=off noapic nolapic pci=bios.