Rilasciata Knoppix 5.3.1

fonte: distrowatch

Knoppix is a bootable CD 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 Linux demo, 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 CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.

Per il download è possibile usare uno dei siti mirror o usate il file .torrent disponibile già da tempo in rete.

Se volete usare wget, l’opzione -c per esempio vi consente di riprendere il collegamento se interrotto, visto che si tratta di 4.3GB:
$ wget -c -o 5.3.log ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/knoppix/DVD/KNOPPIX_V5.3.1DVD-2008-03-26-EN.iso &

more 5.3.log

--11:12:10-- ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/knoppix/DVD/KNOPPIX_V5.3.1DVD-2008-03-26-EN.iso=> `KNOPPIX_V5.3.1DVD-2008-03-26-EN.iso'
Risoluzione di mirror.switch.ch in corso... 130.59.10.34, 130.59.10.35
Connessione a mirror.switch.ch|130.59.10.34:21... connesso.
Accesso come utente anonymous ... Login eseguito!
==> SYST ... fatto. ==> PWD ... fatto.
==> TYPE I ... fatto. ==> CWD /mirror/knoppix/DVD ... fatto.
==> SIZE KNOPPIX_V5.3.1DVD-2008-03-26-EN.iso ... fatto.
==> PASV ... fatto. ==> REST 4446816256 ... fatto.
==> RETR KNOPPIX_V5.3.1DVD-2008-03-26-EN.iso ... fatto.
Lunghezza: 4,446,816,256 (4.1G), 0 (0) rimanenti

0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 0% 693.13 KB/s

UPDATE:

per controllare l’integrità del file scaricato il comando md5sum riporta l’hash del file:

$ md5sum KNOPPIX_V5.3.1DVD-2008-03-26-EN.iso
4ccda04355e63d1485072f8906465168 KNOPPIX_V5.3.1DVD-2008-03-26-EN.iso

Per i cambiamenti consultate il sito ufficiale:

From the KNOPPIX-CHANGELOG:

• Linux Kernel 2.6.24.4,
• KDE 3.9 with compiz-fusion as 3D-window manager,
• Updates: cloop 2.624 realtime decompression with threads and experimental “suspend” feature, Debian lenny (testing+unstable), Iceweasel/Icedove (Firefox/Thunderbird) Updates,
• OpenOffice 2.3.1,
• VirtualBox OSE
• special feature accessibility:
  • ADRIANE Audio-Desktop,
  • Orca as graphical screenreader,

Caution: In the english 5.3.1 DVD version, the audio desktop ADRIANE, activated by the “adriane” boot option, insists of talking in german. This can be fixed by removing the “language” settings in the configuration file /etc/adriane/adriane.conf, and restarting adriane-screenreader.

Spero di poter scrivere una recensione nei prossimi giorni.

Enjoy