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The Knoppix CD contains a large

collection of software; the Knoppix

system is just under 700MBytes in

size. Because of its compressed for-

mat, the system contains almost

2GBytes of executable software which

is decompressed as and when needed.

One of Knoppix’s strengths lies in its

ability to detect a broad range of com-

puter hardware. This includes many

graphics and sound cards as well as SCSI

and USB devices.

range from OpenOffice 1.1 for your pro-

ductivity requirements to Rosegarden, a

MIDI sequencer and musical notation

editor.

Gnoppix 0.60RC2

The Gnoppix distribution is a LiveCD

based on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0

(woody). It can be compared to Knoppix

but, where Knoppix uses KDE, GNOPPIX

uses the GNOME desktop environment.

With its GUI installation tool, it has

never been easier to set up a Debian

system with a GNOME desktop.

K noppix is becoming a necessary

Knoppix 3.4

This is the standard Knoppix that the

others are based on. Debian-based it has

a 2.4.26 kernel, although a 2.6.6 option

is available at boot time. The default

desktop environment is KDE 3.2.2 and

includes the latest Gimp version 2.0.

This version has had improvements

made to its hardware detection from the

previous 3.3 version, with better drivers

now included. Additional software can

easily be added with the Internet-based

live installer, which can place the soft-

ware either into a RAM disk or onto a

hard drive-persistent home directory.

No matter what you want to do, Knop-

pix has the software you need. This can

part of our lives. Its uses are

numerous, with some websites

listing over a 100 different applications

and jobs that it is capable of. These

range from a teaching resource to a res-

cue system.

Kanotix 07-2004-A

Kanotix is a complete distribution based

on Debian/sid. It is optimized for hard

disk installation. Many WLAN drivers

have been added including NdisWrap-

per. (See cover story in this issue). It

contains the 2.6.6 kernel and is designed

for 586 processors or better.

What is it?

Knoppix is a LiveCD Linux distribution.

That means it is capable of running from

the CD alone without harming your hard

disk stored information, to give you a

working Linux system. Speed is naturally

slower as it is reliant on the size of your

RAM and CD drive speed. An operating

system running on a hard disk can sup-

plement its RAM with swap space, and

hard disk access is much faster than CD

access time and data transfer. That said,

it is an amazing system, capable of

showing off Linux to all. Many institu-

tions are using Knoppix as a basis to

produce their own tailored system.

Knoppix STD

Knoppix-STD is a customized distribu-

tion of Knoppix. It aims at providing a

security-enhanced version of the LiveCD,

focusing on information security, and

network management tools. It is meant

How to start a

Knoppix disc

Once you have burnt a Knoppix distribution

ISO image to a CD, you need to alter your

BIOS so that your computer will boot from

the media drive where you have the CD.

With this done, you can reset the power to

the computer.

If your computer BIOS does not support the

option of booting from the media drive, you

have will need to create a boot floppy

diskette.. You can create this disk from the

image in KNOPPIX/boot.img which will be

on your newly made CD.

Figure 1: Knoppix showing off its KDE features.

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its powerful features. It includes a won-

derful new tool called Gorm which is

ideal for Rapid Application Develop-

ment.

GNUstep has a fast, elegant and con-

sistent design that is the result of over a

decade of development.

Insert 1.2.14

The Inside Security Rescue Toolkit is

small in size. At under 50MBytes it can

be burnt onto a business-card CD. If you

have sufficiently fast Internet access, you

can use the Internet-Installer option to

download and install Mozilla into a RAM

disk.

Even without a fast connection you

can still browse with the Links program.

Despite its small size, Insert can perform

many jobs such as network analysis, dis-

aster recovery, virus scanning, and

computer forensics.

Figure 2: Tiny but powerful Insert.

Memtest86

Memtest86 is a small, stand-alone mem-

ory test for x86 architecture computers.

Most computer BIOS based memory tests

are very quick, and often miss many of

the failures that are detected by a more

rigorous Memtest86.

Memtest86 has a few online com-

mands. ESC leaves the test and restarts

the computer. c lets you chose from the

configuration menu. In this option, 2 lets

you select the test options.

to be used by both the novice looking to

learn more about information security

and security professionals looking for

another Swiss army knife for their tool

kits.

Its utilities are divided into a range of

topics including: authentication, encryp-

tion, forensics, firewall, honeypots and

many more.

tem with automatic hardware detection

and support for a wide range of graphics

and sound cards. The WiFi gateway

includes support for end-user authenti-

cation and web content filtering.

GNUStep

GNUstep is a free implementation of the

OPENSTEP framework. The GNUstep

LiveCD has plenty of software for

GNUstep. Displaying Postscript is one of

ZoneCD

Based on Morphix, the ZoneCD offers a

free WiFi access solution. It has been

designed to implement safe, free, WiFi

hotspots. The ZoneCD can be used by all

levels of free WiFi providers, from expe-

rienced programmers to newbies. Setting

up a free WiFi hotspot can be as easy as

hooking up an access point, popping in a

CD and rebooting your machine.

It is pre-configured to create a WiFi

gateway. The CD is a tiny operating sys-

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System requirements

•Intel-compatible CPU (i486 or later).

• 20 MB of RAM for text mode, at least 96

MB for graphics mode with KDE (at least

128 MB of RAM is recommended to use

the various office products).

• Bootable media drive.

• Standard SVGA-compatible graphics card.

• Serial or PS/2 standard mouse or IMPS/2-

compatible USB-mouse.

Figure 3: The GNUstep desktop.

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