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Knoppix 6.0 Linux LiveCD replaces KDE with LXDE
by Brad Linder Mar 10th 2009 at 5:00PM
Lat month Knoppix 6.0 was released, and it's even faster and prettier than earlier versions. But it's still designed to run well on older and slower computers. Among the changes in version 6.0 is the switch from the KDE desktop environment to the LXDE graphical environment. LXDE is light weight and loads quickly, but it's capable of offering all sorts of visual candy including Compiz desktop effects.
Knoppix 6.0 also boots twice as fast as Knoppix 5, and comes with fewer applications preloaded, which helps keep the size down. While the main disk image weighs in at 645MB, it can be remastered to use 256MB or less.
You can also now save your settings after shutting down the system by creatng a persisent boot image.
[via Linux Magazine]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Geir said 5:25PM on 3-10-2009
Knoppix is great, but this is awesome!
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dawgama said 6:18PM on 3-10-2009
last month :)
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Wrinkliez said 8:16AM on 3-11-2009
the problem is power management... all i want is to dim my screen, lxde. is it too much to ask?
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