Running on Knoppix
My computer spent most of the night last night downloading over 3 gigabytes of the Knoppix bootable DVD with a bit torrent client. I had tried FTP first, but the download speed was very slow and continued to fail on different mirrors.
I installed the NERO software that came with my SONY DVD/CD ReWritable Drive (DRX-720UL) and was able to burn the ISO image to a DVD. I wasn’t sure if my computer would permit me to boot off of a DVD. I have booted it off of a normal CD in the past, but I figured DVD’s may be different.
The option to choose the DVD drive came up and I was in. The last time I tried Knoppix, I could only get a color depth of 16 colors. It appears that I have everything now at a descent resolution. I was even able to save a personal configuration file to my iPod so that it can remember a few of my preferred settings.
I’m still looking around, but I have already seen that the Mono development environment is here. I had also told bit torrent to download monoppix after it completed Knoppix, but it may have been all for nothing. I haven’t seen MySQL yet. I thought I had seen a file related to it in the root directory when looking at the contents from windows.
Audacity is installed here as well. I have used that program for podcasting in the past. Well, I’m going to muck around a bit more. This is really nice.