[Gllug] Knoppix and similar

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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Jim Bailey yowled:
> Knoppix is on a compressed file system AFAIK which is why you get those
> anoying delays as the app is uncompressed.

No: the compression *speeds up* Knoppix quite considerably. It takes
less time to read in stuff off the CD and then uncompress it than it
would have done to read in the larger, uncompressed original.

-- 
`The copyright file is for everyone.  That we make it available in
 plain-text, uncompressed form rather than in spinning, throbbing
 OpenGL-rendered 3D text over a thumping dance music soundtrack is a
 feature, not a bug.' --- Branden Robinson

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