Knoppix 3.9 Released

GuyRiley writes "The Debian-based live-cd Linux distribution Knoppix has been updated to version 3.9. Among the most notable changes are the update to kernel 2.6.11 and the inclusion of OpenOffice 2.0 BETA and KDE 3.4. This is likely the last single-CD version of Knoppix before the split into 'Light' and 'Maxi' versions. Torrent links here."

How Does Knoppix Work with Filesystems?

[Evil W1zard]

I have actually been a lazy bum and not burned a Knoppix disc yet so I am not sure how exactly it works. When you load up Knoppix do you have the capability of pulling files you stored via NTFS? I can't see it being really useful if it didn't. I think I can use Knoppix as a possible solution for some tools that won't run on Windows until I take the time to partition my drive and install VMWare (cuz I hate having to reboot between OS's!).

Re:Install ease?

[m50d]

Why? A live CD is a live cd, to be run from the cd. A normal distro is a normal distro to be installed on a hard drive, AND NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET. Why would you want to install it onto a hard disk when there are so many perfectly good distributions designed for doing just that?

Looks like their comment tool is unsafe

[hacker]

Has anyone noticed that their comments section [uni-kl.de] has already been hijacked?

Looks like its time for sites to do some XSS auditing [ckers.org] before they put up their sites, and make sure people can't just post arbitrary garbage by stuffing the query strings.

For those of you running active data on port 80 (or 443, or https/https on any public port), please PLEASE take the time to understand XSS [securitydocs.com] and avoid coding sites that allow it to happen. Yes, even major sites like Perl.org and Yahoo.com have some pages that are NOT xss-safe.. but they're working on it. Are you?