The Open Source Weblog. Get Android on your iPad with OpeniBoot in the near future by Samuel Gibbs on November 17, 2010 at 06:40 AM Got an iPad, but bored of iOS? Fancy trying out Android, even though it's not designed for tablets? Well you might be in luck, as the team that brought you Bootlace and OpeniBoot for the iPhone and iPhone 3G has released a teaser of their open source iOS boot ROM alternative running on an iPhone 4 and the iPad. With the tablet-optimized Gingerbread just around the corner, the jailbroken iPad...
Camino 2.0.6 released, fixes security and stablility bugs by Samuel Gibbs on November 17, 2010 at 05:10 AM Camino, the Mac-only cousin of Firefox, has just been updated to 2.0.6, bringing with it outdated Flash plug-in version checking. VLC 1.1.5 adds live WebM streaming support, Game Music Emu, Channels.com shows by Lee Mathews on November 14, 2010 at 09:00 AM VidCoder now rips Blu-Ray discs, too by Lee Mathews on November 12, 2010 at 05:00 PM by Lee Mathews on November 11, 2010 at 12:00 PM. Category:Remastering Knoppix - Knoppix Documentation Wiki. Knowing Knoppix/Finding permanence - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks. “The box said that I needed to have Windows 98 or better… so I installed Linux.” -- LinuxNewbie.org Overview[edit] Knoppix lets you store personalised settings, document files and system settings on a disk.
This saves you from having to set up Knoppix from scratch every time you run it. Important: The functionality described in this article is available only until and including Knoppix 5.1.1 (CD release) and 5.3.1 (DVD release), as all versions of Knoppix since 6.0 don't have it anymore. Knoppix 6.x releases require saving all of the CD or DVD contents to non-optical media (hard disk, flash drive, memory card), from which to boot the system up. Creating a persistent Home directory[edit] Personalisation is what makes your computer yours.
Knoppix lets you keep your Home directory on another disk. This works best with a USB hard drive stick, also known as a USB flash drive. You must reboot for the change to take effect. Knoppix home=/mnt/sda1 During startup you should see a message like this: Customizations - Knoppix Documentation Wiki. Cheat Knoppix 4 to Improve Performance - Part 4. Computer on a Disc and a USB Key - Page 1 - MozillaQuest Magazine. Today, in Part 4 of our Knoppix cheats article, you will learn how to put together all the stuff you learned in Parts 1 through 3 to make a very portable, Live-Knoppix setup. It's really very slick and it is very handy too. The Persistent Knoppix trick itself is not a Knoppix cheat. You do the trick using menued procedures, which become available to you after Knoppix is booted and you have the KDE desktop running. However, we are going to put the Persistent Knoppix image on the same USB key that we put the live Knoppix CD that we used for the performance cheats in Part 2.
Persistent Knoppix A large capacity USB Key was chosen for the performance cheat so that you can use the Knoppix live CD on several different computers -- and have the same configuration and data files on whatever computer is being used with the Knoppix live CD. There are several ways to have the same configuration and data files on whatever computer is being used with the Knoppix live CD. Linux On A Stick: Part II. Two weeks back I did part 1 of Linux on a stick. In part 1, we spoke of how to get a Live CD onto your USB jump drive and the problems with it. Using the Live CD version on the jump drive alone allows you to boot to your jump drive into the distro of Linux that you have chosen. However, anything you change while in this live CD session will not be saved. Therefor, if you changed anything, such as download NEdit because you are sick of GEdit, you will have to do it all over again next time you decide to boot from your USB jump drive. With the Part 2 technique, that I am about to describe, you will be able to have such changes saved.
Ready to get to it now? [More after the jump]For those of your that are able to boot to your USB jump drive, hit up THIS site to take the Linux test to see which distribution of Linux is best for you. First up, I'm using Ubuntu and will be installing this on a 2 Gig PNY Attache USB 2.0 jump drive. Other than that, everything works great. USB Knoppix 5.1.0 | Pen Drive Linux. USB Knoppix 5.1? This tutorial covers how to create a Knoppix 5.1.1 Flash Drive using Windows and our custom script. The user can then boot and run Knoppix Linux from a USB Flash Drive. Knoppix is based on Debian GNU/Linux and includes many useful applications such as Abiword, OpenOffice, Gimp, Konqueror, Mozilla, Apache, PHP, MySQL along with hundreds of other Open Source applications.
Keep reading and we will show you how to make your own Portable Knoppix that you can then boot from any PC that supports USB boot. Knoppix 5.1 Screenshot: Distribution Home Page: Knoppix.org Minimum Flash Drive Capacity: 1GB Persistent Feature: Yes You’ll need the following to create a Portable Knoppix: 1GB or Larger USB Flash Pen Drive (fat32 formatted)Windows PC to perform the conversion (XP or Vista)Knoppix Linux ISOUSB-Installer-For-Knoppix5.1.exe Installing Knoppix 5.1.1 to a Flash Drive: This tutorial is obsolete! Make Knoppix Persistent, using this Create a persistent KNOPPIX disk image tutorial.