Comments on: Playing around with Knoppix http://www.geekrant.org/2005/11/29/playing-around-with-knoppix/ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:44:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeremy http://www.geekrant.org/2005/11/29/playing-around-with-knoppix/comment-page-1/#comment-5505 Jeremy Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:45:01 +0000 http://www.geekrant.org/?p=462#comment-5505 I've had similar issues with various LiveCD distros and old/ancient video cards. Well my issue is that you generally need cards with 3D accel. and that are supported by frame buffer. I think you'll find a permanent install to work better and means that any tweaks you have to make don't have to be done each time you restart it. Besides there's no reason why a USB mouse shouldn't work anyway, so it's probably something particular with Knoppix. While a lot of this seems odd, while Linux is supposed to be king of older hardware, it's still possible to get it running on anything as old as a 486 (or 386 but who'd want to?). Distributions like Debian will have no problems with this, though I suspect that newer more user-friendly distros will have problems as they try to take advantage of modern hardware out of the box. Still give Ubuntu a go, it's a good distro (and based on Debian, which makes it even better :D). I’ve had similar issues with various LiveCD distros and old/ancient video cards. Well my issue is that you generally need cards with 3D accel. and that are supported by frame buffer. I think you’ll find a permanent install to work better and means that any tweaks you have to make don’t have to be done each time you restart it. Besides there’s no reason why a USB mouse shouldn’t work anyway, so it’s probably something particular with Knoppix.

While a lot of this seems odd, while Linux is supposed to be king of older hardware, it’s still possible to get it running on anything as old as a 486 (or 386 but who’d want to?). Distributions like Debian will have no problems with this, though I suspect that newer more user-friendly distros will have problems as they try to take advantage of modern hardware out of the box. Still give Ubuntu a go, it’s a good distro (and based on Debian, which makes it even better :D ).

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