Hervé
27th November 2017, 16:43
From Jim Stone (http://82.221.129.208/.zr3.html):
Now running on a totally new system (http://82.221.129.208/.zr3.html)
This ought to get 4 devices capable of administering this web site. Wait and see. Worked on the first one.
It took an old old old celeron (that will not be used for the web site) to get everything kickstarted (knoppix clashed with the UEFI bios on the new laptop) and black screened with the CD but from flash [drive] it works perfect and is very fast and very complete. Lots of experimenting ahead.
Knoppix appears to be extremely efficient with bandwidth. I will have to use it more to find out but one huge problem with the newest Linux Mint was that it - for some reason - tripled bandwidth usage which is for me inexplicable and inexcusable.
So far the things I don't like with live knoppix are the desktop background, the fact a voice says "initiating startup sequence" when you start it, and no matter what application you open, it bounces the window once on purpose for "coolness" - only that kind of crap is for mac, not my computer. Whatever.
What I like: Even from a live cd, it runs much faster than Mint or Ubuntu run from flash. When using flash, Knoppix runs perceptibly instantly with enormous applications like Gimp and Blender opening perceptibly instantly. Once the UEFI bios gives the go, Knoppix boots in about 4 seconds. It takes longer for the bios to do post than it does for knoppix to boot. So it is real fast.
The computer is running cold as a bone. Someone told me a while ago that a programmer sabotaged power management in Mint and Ubuntu, and they never fixed it. But since it all started with Knoppix (which they took from) there is no excuse other than wilful intent that it stayed broken. I believe Mint and Ubuntu are intentionally crippled. Knoppix is obviously way beyond. No power management issues at all. The hottest thing on the whole computer now is the flash drive it is running from. The CPU would get hot with windows and Mint, but with knoppix it's as cold as a TI-35. No perceptible heat anywhere at all on the computer itself. That ought to do wonders for battery life, changing the flash drive for one that runs cooler is obviously going to make a difference. The flash drive is by far the biggest heat generator. So that's worth pointing out.
It has chrome and firefox. But there are security features on them that are not in any chrome or firefox I have seen. Knoppix must have added stuff. It also has konqueror but it malfunctions on most web sites.
It has a zillion apps, (like what happens when you use someone's computer and they have a fetish for putting 5,000 things on it they'll never use) yet the desktop is perfectly clean and none of that stuff starts unless you ask it to. I never knew there were games for Linux but there are evidently hundreds. It also has the ability to run games like DOOM.
Basically, if it is worth having and in the Linux world, it is in Knoppix 8.1 Blender is supposed to be powerful enough to do feature animated films, it's here. It is cryptic for someone who has not ever done that. There are 4 normal video editors also, along with a music score creator and several multi channel audio apps. Obviously it has open office and all those types of things.
Anyway, Knoppix is obviously the gold standard in Linux. I never had this much crap available, all running smoothly and cold as a bone. By cold as a bone, I mean, the laptop is cold to the touch and the CPU fan never came on. If it was not managing the fan correctly, the laptop would be hot. It is not hot. Power management is simply so good a CPU fan is not needed. It absolutely DESTROYS Mint (which I was using up until this evening) it is 20X as fast at least,
I forgot something huge: With both the latest Linux Mint, and Windows, the new computer was constantly highlighting and deleting text while I typed. That's not happening AT ALL with Knoppix.
That's a big thing to point out, because even with a live CD that was perfectly fresh, Mint would constantly highlight and delete text while I was typing, and Knoppix is not doing that at all. It is as if both Windows and Mint piped me straight into enemy hands, and they raised as much mayhem as possible. Now everything is rock stable with no interference whatsoever, it is immediately noticeable.
Perhaps the speed boost and bandwidth savings were due to not having to serve data to multiple [enemy] computers . . . . WOULDENT DOUBT IT.
It does little good to have an open source application be publicly verified, when the public has to go through so much code it is longer than 2,000 New Testaments. Now that even programs like Linux have universally expanded beyond 1.5 gigs, it is all a matter of trust. It appears in this case that the original is still the best. I should have just stuck with Knoppix, that is obvious now.
Now running on a totally new system (http://82.221.129.208/.zr3.html)
This ought to get 4 devices capable of administering this web site. Wait and see. Worked on the first one.
It took an old old old celeron (that will not be used for the web site) to get everything kickstarted (knoppix clashed with the UEFI bios on the new laptop) and black screened with the CD but from flash [drive] it works perfect and is very fast and very complete. Lots of experimenting ahead.
Knoppix appears to be extremely efficient with bandwidth. I will have to use it more to find out but one huge problem with the newest Linux Mint was that it - for some reason - tripled bandwidth usage which is for me inexplicable and inexcusable.
So far the things I don't like with live knoppix are the desktop background, the fact a voice says "initiating startup sequence" when you start it, and no matter what application you open, it bounces the window once on purpose for "coolness" - only that kind of crap is for mac, not my computer. Whatever.
What I like: Even from a live cd, it runs much faster than Mint or Ubuntu run from flash. When using flash, Knoppix runs perceptibly instantly with enormous applications like Gimp and Blender opening perceptibly instantly. Once the UEFI bios gives the go, Knoppix boots in about 4 seconds. It takes longer for the bios to do post than it does for knoppix to boot. So it is real fast.
The computer is running cold as a bone. Someone told me a while ago that a programmer sabotaged power management in Mint and Ubuntu, and they never fixed it. But since it all started with Knoppix (which they took from) there is no excuse other than wilful intent that it stayed broken. I believe Mint and Ubuntu are intentionally crippled. Knoppix is obviously way beyond. No power management issues at all. The hottest thing on the whole computer now is the flash drive it is running from. The CPU would get hot with windows and Mint, but with knoppix it's as cold as a TI-35. No perceptible heat anywhere at all on the computer itself. That ought to do wonders for battery life, changing the flash drive for one that runs cooler is obviously going to make a difference. The flash drive is by far the biggest heat generator. So that's worth pointing out.
It has chrome and firefox. But there are security features on them that are not in any chrome or firefox I have seen. Knoppix must have added stuff. It also has konqueror but it malfunctions on most web sites.
It has a zillion apps, (like what happens when you use someone's computer and they have a fetish for putting 5,000 things on it they'll never use) yet the desktop is perfectly clean and none of that stuff starts unless you ask it to. I never knew there were games for Linux but there are evidently hundreds. It also has the ability to run games like DOOM.
Basically, if it is worth having and in the Linux world, it is in Knoppix 8.1 Blender is supposed to be powerful enough to do feature animated films, it's here. It is cryptic for someone who has not ever done that. There are 4 normal video editors also, along with a music score creator and several multi channel audio apps. Obviously it has open office and all those types of things.
Anyway, Knoppix is obviously the gold standard in Linux. I never had this much crap available, all running smoothly and cold as a bone. By cold as a bone, I mean, the laptop is cold to the touch and the CPU fan never came on. If it was not managing the fan correctly, the laptop would be hot. It is not hot. Power management is simply so good a CPU fan is not needed. It absolutely DESTROYS Mint (which I was using up until this evening) it is 20X as fast at least,
I forgot something huge: With both the latest Linux Mint, and Windows, the new computer was constantly highlighting and deleting text while I typed. That's not happening AT ALL with Knoppix.
That's a big thing to point out, because even with a live CD that was perfectly fresh, Mint would constantly highlight and delete text while I was typing, and Knoppix is not doing that at all. It is as if both Windows and Mint piped me straight into enemy hands, and they raised as much mayhem as possible. Now everything is rock stable with no interference whatsoever, it is immediately noticeable.
Perhaps the speed boost and bandwidth savings were due to not having to serve data to multiple [enemy] computers . . . . WOULDENT DOUBT IT.
It does little good to have an open source application be publicly verified, when the public has to go through so much code it is longer than 2,000 New Testaments. Now that even programs like Linux have universally expanded beyond 1.5 gigs, it is all a matter of trust. It appears in this case that the original is still the best. I should have just stuck with Knoppix, that is obvious now.