Knoppix 5.3.1

Knoppix is a bootable live DVD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. Knoppix can be used as a productive Linux desktop, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the DVD has over 8 GB of executable software installed on it.

Knoppix 5.3.1 features:

• Linux-Kernel 2.6.24.4 with custom modules: gspca, qemu, kvm, virtualbox, ndiswrapper, avm
• Based on Debian Lenny (testing+unstable)
• KDE 3.5.9 as the standard desktop with K Office and the Konqueror WWW-browser konqueror
• KDE 4.0 as experimental boot option
• Compiz 3D windowmanager 0.7.3 with experimental compiz-fusion modules
• X Multimedia System (xmms) an MPEG-video, MP3, Ogg Vorbis Audio player and xine
• OpenOffice.org 2.3.1, the GPL-developed version of the well-known StarOffice(TM) office suite
• Internet connection software kppp, pppoeconf (DSL) and isdn-config
• The GIMP Version 2.4.5
• ADRIANE, Audio Desktop with text-to-speech and braille support
• Virtualbox OSE edition
• utilities for data recovery and system repairs, even for other operating systems
• network and security analysis tools for network administrators
• many programming languages, development tools and libraries for developers
• NTFS-3G for full transparent NTFS write support
• in total more than 900 installed software packages with over 2000 executable user programs, utilities, and games