A few questions about knoppix 3.7.

[plutoniumman]

Hello, I was just wondering if knoppix 3.7 has a firewall (and if so; is it automaticly turned on?) and, can knoppix be installed to the HDD and have the PC run from there?

[squirellplaying]

Not sure, yes it can. If your going to install it, your better off with something like debian. Or if you want a nice live cd and want to test it first before installation helix (http://www.e-fense.com/helix/) is excellent.

[liorean]

There's Morphix (p://www.morphix.org/modules/news/) as well. Like Knoppix, it's a Debian derivative. Unlike Knoppix, it's made for being modular, allow installation to harddrive, and other things. I don't know how mature it is, though.

[squirellplaying]

I tried it and I'm not sure if it was my settings or just how it was but the icons were huge and I believe it ran kde. **shudders** But if it was just my setting's then it is a nice distro, there's an app. to resize your harddrive which works well. I've tried about 20 distros if you can't tell already. CD-RW saved me lots of dough.

[liorean]

What's so bad about KDE?

[squirellplaying]

It looks too much like windows for my taste. On a livecd it is death because it is so graphics heavy it takes forever for men's to open. I'm prefer something like icevm, which uses less resources.

[Celtboy]

meh. get used to the CLI. :D

[brothercake]

Do you have any virtual machine software? If you can run it inside a VM then there's no risk of it affecting anything else, and you can run a firewall and other services on the host computer.