{"id":72,"date":"2003-05-22T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2003-05-22T18:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2003-05-22T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2003-05-22T18:55:08","slug":"interested-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/22\/interested-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Interested in Linux?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently happened upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knopper.net\/knoppix\/index-en.html\">Knoppix<\/a> and was totally blown away.  It&#8217;s a Linux distribution (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/\">Debian<\/a>-based) that runs completely off of a CD.  You don&#8217;t have to install <i>anything<\/i>.  You can pop it into your Windows machine&#8217;s CD-ROM drive, tell your computer to boot off the CD, and Knoppix loads.  It auto-detects your hardware (on my laptop, it even autodetected the wireless card and I was running wireless instantly) and you are up and running in a <a href=\"http:\/\/kde.org\/screenshots\/kde310shots.php\">KDE 3.1<\/a> environment.<\/p>\n<p>For people who are interested in Linux but don&#8217;t want to go through the aggravation (&#8220;fun&#8221;) of getting it installed and getting peripherals working just to try it out, this really is a great program.  You can go back to Windows just by rebooting your PC and taking out the CD.  Piece of cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently happened upon Knoppix and was totally blown away. It&#8217;s a Linux distribution (Debian-based) that runs completely off of a CD. You don&#8217;t have to install anything. You can pop it into your Windows machine&#8217;s CD-ROM drive, tell your computer to boot off the CD, and Knoppix loads. It auto-detects your hardware (on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-1a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}