Archive for March 2005
Monoppix - Combining Knoppix With Mono And MySQL
8 March 2005 in Code-ing | Comments (0)
Monoppix is a live Linux distribution that you can run on any computer with a CD-ROM station and without installing it on the hard drive! Monoppix is based on the live Linux distro Knoppix but with the addition of Mono, a Mono variant of ASP.NET and MySQL database server. It is run completely of the CD and uses the RAM of your computer as temporary storage place, plus it can also use USB memory and burn to CD’s the files that you would like to have for future use. 
I gave Mono a spin, and this is how it looked:
When testing it, I must say that I was impressed by the speed of Monoppix running inside a trial version of Virtual PC. Heck, there was no apparent lag at all from what I could see! 
If you’re into .NET and wish to try out Mono, then this is the Linux distro you should use. Alas, Mono doesn’t fully support Windows.Forms yet, so you can not run graphical .NET applications on it yet. 
Furthermore, C# knowledge is more or less required for compiling just about anything in Mono. You can download the Monoppix ISO using Bittorrent, or using one of the slower HTTP downloads.