Knoppix is a Live-CD distribution. You burn it to a CD, put the CD into the CD drive and reboot into a Linux environment. When you are done, take out the CD and reboot. It is a swiss army knife of utilities useful for many tasks. However very few books have been so far written [...]

Our member Dr. Mandar Mitra from ISI, Kolkata has about 99 sets of Ubuntu CDs for distribution. He is busy at this moment, if you want to grab a copy send me your request at this address -> indradg (at) icbic (dot) com

I thought I could link my (pretty dated) HOWTO for building diskless workstations with Linux on ILUG-Cal. I guess more people could read it this way. Anyone prepared to maintain, or improve the document are most welcome. Visit this link if the one below doesnt work.

Slackware Linux makes use of Slackware packages for easy installation, and removal of user installed software. Slackware packages have a .tgz extension and can be obtained from the Slackware home site at http://www.slackware.com, as well as various other FTP sites that have them. Slackware packages contain binary files, meaning that there is no need to [...]

You have heard about 2.5.x series of Linux Kernel. May be you are
using it. Check the article written by Kernel maintainer Dave Jones
about the new features which can be found in 2.5.x Linux Kernel tree
from the following URL codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt