Knoppix founder Klaus Knopper speaks
Klaus Knopper teaches at the Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences where he lectures in software engineering and software technology and occasionally gives seminars and talks about open source in various parts of the IT industry. Klaus received his diploma in electrical engineering from the Kaiserslautern University of Technology, which in German is die Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. He co-founded LinuxTag in 1996, a Linux exhibition which has not really seen any competition from anywhere. He has been a self-employed information technology consultant since 1998. As well as all of this he started the Knoppix GNU/Linux distribution. Knoppix is something of a legend as far as system administrators and computer repair technicians are concerned. Most people who know about it have a healthy respect for it. Linux User & Developer was able to catch up with Klaus in the middle of his busy schedule and ask him some questions about himself….
So, what made you interested enough to produce Knoppix?
Knoppix was rather an experiment with later, unexpected popularity, than a product. In 1999, self-contained bootable mini-CDs with a tiny Linux-based rescue system became popular at various computer expos and conferences. I just wanted to understand how booting from CD worked, and after this, create a full-sized CD that contained programs and tools that I frequently used myself, in order to have my own software equipment ready-to-run with me, without the need to also carry around an expensive computer. In 2000, I had the opportunity to give a talk about ‘creating a self-contained, auto-configuring Linux system on an iso9660 file system’ at the Atlanta Linux Showcase. I got a lot of feedback, hints and tips for improvement from the people listening to the talk, so I decided to make the project public in order to get more information about use cases and hardware that I had no access to personally. Due to many requests for inclusion of software, the DVD version was created. Today there is so much cool free software around that I have to carefully select even for DVD-size. Apparently, there would be enough software to fill a double-layer DVD already.
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