Knoppix, a Debian-based Live CD Linux distribution by Klaus Knopper that became highly influential due to being Live CD, was originally presented in 2000 during the ALS 2000 conference (https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/als00/2000papers/papers/index.html)
The earliest version of Knoppix that _used to be available_ online was 1.4 ALS Beta. But it doesn't look like anyone has it (except for maybe Mr Knopper). As I mentioned in a previous toot, the earliest generally available version now is 3.2.
Except... Knoppix 2.0 (internally labelled as 1.99) was distributed among the visitors of the LinuxTag 2001 conference (July 2001).
And, luckily, it was preserved by someone on the Internet Archive.
It is NOT easy to run it, but I figured out how to ;)
( screenshots 🧵 cont)
