[PLUG] An Alternative to Knoppix

Jason R. Martin nsxfreddy at gmail.com
Sat Oct 8 02:27:36 UTC 2005


On 10/7/05, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>
> > Yes ... Quantian is very cool indeed. The most recent versions have been on
> > DVDs; if you want a CD-sized Quantian you need to go back a few releases.
>
>    I wondered how they got 3G or more on a 800M cdrom.

Actually Knoppix (the CD version) uses a compressed filesystem image
to get about 2GB worth of stuff on a CD.  I don't know if they still
do that with the DVD version of Knoppix.

Jason



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