Knoppix distribution of GNU/Linux really cool!!
I have had Knoppix CD with me for sometime now, every now and then I insert it into the CD Drive and boot into the world of GNU/Linux. Don't get me wrong, I am still a total GNU/Linux newbie and am still learning to do basic editing in Emacs. What happened today was that one of the PCs in our office didn't have a Hard Disk, so I just had it boot into Linux using Knoppix (Knoppix has the entire GNU/Linux OS, applications in the CD itself and runs it from there, so no Hard Disk required). Before today, I just ran it in stand alone machines, but I was in for a real fun today - I just made a few IP settings and to my pleasant surprise, we could the browse the net (via a Proxy on running on Windows 2000) from GNU/Linux !!! This is the first time I am browsing the net from GNU/Linux :-). Please understand that I am no systems administrator, I am a programmer. A few more settings in Samba and I could get the PC to talk to the other PCs in the network (all running Microsoft Windows). Tell you the truth doing these settings is even easier than in Windows 9X (no restart required).
I just had to blog about this one.