Sound, time and platform issues

[Tobias Pfeiffer]

Hi!

anton muhin <antonmuhin.REMOVE.ME.FOR.REAL.MAIL at rambler.ru> wrote in
news:bka4k6$j9a$1 at news.peterlink.ru: 

> 3. If there is no Windows solution, what is the simplest way to use 
> Linux? I have a notebook and rather limited knowledge of Linux. I
> don't want to install Linux on the notebook---harddrive is somewhat
> limited. However, I heard that there are some variants of *nix that
> needs only boot-CD. Does anybody have experience with systems like
> these? 

Yuz. A little bit, at least. There's two alternatives I know of.
1. Knoppix. There you have a completely free system, basing on Debian 
Linux, that boots from CD-ROM and gives you a complete Linux system, 
including KDE (graphical user interface) and all the stuff you would need 
to write python. But since it won't change your machine at all, you will 
probably have to reinstall the desired sound modules at every reboot and 
have all of your files stored on your harddisk, or all will be lost. 
Normally, you would find information about Knoppix at 
www.knopper.net/knoppix, but this site is closed right now due to the 
Software Patent Issue of the European Union.
2. SuSE Linux Live-Eval (or something like that). I never tried that, but 
this is supposed to be a "Test-Linux" from the german linux distributor 
SuSE that is freely available. 
(http://www.suse.de/us/private/download/ftp/live_eval_int.html)

Bye
Tobias