[Gllug] Knoppix and similar

[Rob Crowther]

Andrew Black (li) wrote:
> Hi
> I have an old version of Knoppix and was wondering if this is the way to go,
> 
Knoppix is the best general purpose Live CD distro I've played with, you 
might want to download the latest version (or get it off a magazine 
cover CD).  Another one I like is Slax - http://www.slax.org - based on 
Slackware, smaller download than Knoppix.  If you're going to be booting 
from the CD for a while then you should see if you can make room on your 
HDD for a swap partition you'll find everything goes *much* faster.

> One specifc question - how easy is to share a printer (parallel port and USB
> connected to this machine) using SMB protocol.   Do I have to run and
> configure SAMBA to do this.
> 
Certainly with Knoppix this was very easy to do, just went into ntsysv 
and started the smb service.  Can't recall exact details for Slax but I 
imagine it's fairly similar.

Rob
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