I have a copy of one called Poe-Lina Linux on a CD somewhere in storage. This is one of the few sites I’ve found about it (sorry, all Japanese, it came in a book I bought when I lived there), and here is a brief video of it.
Knoppix might be dead? That sucks. It was my first exposure to Linux. A family member who never participated in holiday gift-giving and almost never visited suddenly visited one day when I was young. I don’t remember much of the visit, but he left me with a Linux or Knoppix “for dummies” book with a Knoppix live bootable CD in it, and a burned disc of a more up to date version. He knew I was into tech, and this was pre-Steam days. Internet then was not what it is now, so it was a seriously nice gift for a growing nerdling.
He’s slightly more present now that I’m an adult, and he swears he has no memory of this. Or of Knoppix. But he daily drove Ubuntu as of a few years ago, and he’s the only family member even remotely techy and old enough for it to have been.
Maybe I was blessed by Tux himself?
Might have also been one of my Dad’s coworkers, as he got one of them to backlight mod my GBA back before the SP came out. But it would be very weird if I confused an actual visit. Maybe there was no visit and my dad just handed me the stuff and told me who it was from?
It’s a bit of a mystery, with significant impact to my life trajectory.
I have a copy of one called Poe-Lina Linux on a CD somewhere in storage. This is one of the few sites I’ve found about it (sorry, all Japanese, it came in a book I bought when I lived there), and here is a brief video of it.
Wow, a Japanese version of Knoppix, which I think is German and sadly dead. I think you won the obscurity prize.
Knoppix might be dead? That sucks. It was my first exposure to Linux. A family member who never participated in holiday gift-giving and almost never visited suddenly visited one day when I was young. I don’t remember much of the visit, but he left me with a Linux or Knoppix “for dummies” book with a Knoppix live bootable CD in it, and a burned disc of a more up to date version. He knew I was into tech, and this was pre-Steam days. Internet then was not what it is now, so it was a seriously nice gift for a growing nerdling.
He’s slightly more present now that I’m an adult, and he swears he has no memory of this. Or of Knoppix. But he daily drove Ubuntu as of a few years ago, and he’s the only family member even remotely techy and old enough for it to have been.
Maybe I was blessed by Tux himself?
Might have also been one of my Dad’s coworkers, as he got one of them to backlight mod my GBA back before the SP came out. But it would be very weird if I confused an actual visit. Maybe there was no visit and my dad just handed me the stuff and told me who it was from?
It’s a bit of a mystery, with significant impact to my life trajectory.
No release in several years, forums have a bunch of spam posts in there, etc. Seems to be mostly untouched at this point, so probably dead yeah.
@wizardbeard @massive_bereavement
Well, Knoppix is not *dead* as it is free software, and anyone is free to pick it up and continue it. The code is alive and kicking, so to say.
It’s just that the maintainer has had no more spare time due to other occupational obligations.