@nina_kali_nina “soft, sweet, and clean”

Well good to know it tastes good, I guess.

@nina_kali_nina I would never have guessed there was a vintage stapler collector community, let alone that some of them could be seriously valuable. But I suppose they would be similarly surprised about us collecting pitifully slow 8- and 16-bit computers.

@nina_kali_nina I guess that’s not that surprising. What I recall is that Knoppix was the first live CD that really took off because it put a lot of effort into auto-detecting your hardware. We are spoiled these days with hardware that configures itself through well-defined PCI/USB/ACPI/etc. interfaces, but around the turn of the century it was still pretty messy and mostly it was safer to manually configure things. Knoppix was so good at auto-configuration I used as a diagnosis step when troubleshooting hardware. If Knoppix didn’t see it, it was probably broken (obviously there are plenty of exceptions but it was still useful).

That auto-detect engineering (along with the disc compression) is really what set it apart. And I recall it spawned a lot of derivatives.