Klaus Knopper
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Klaus Knopper (b. 1968 in Ingelheim) is a German electrical engineer and Free Software developer.
Knopper is the creator of Knoppix and Gnoppix, both well-known live CD Linux distributions. He received his diploma in electrical engineering from the Kaiserslautern University of Technology (in German: Technische Universität Kaiserslautern), co-founded LinuxTag (a major European Linux expo) and has been a self-employed information technology consultant since 1998. He also teaches at the Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences.
Knopper is married to Adriane Knopper, who has a visual impairment. She has been assisting Knopper with a version of Knoppix for blind and visually impaired people. Her name has been given to the distribution: Adriane Knoppix.[1]
He is also known as 'No Hard Disk' Man, a name given by an Indian journalist Swapnil Bhartiya.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Swapnil Bhartiya, EFY News, Free Operating System For Blind: Adriane Knoppix accessed 2 February 2007
- ^ Meet The 'No Hard Disk' Man
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