Klaus Knopper
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Klaus Knopper (born 1968 in Ingelheim) is a German electrical engineer and free software developer.
Knopper is the creator of Knoppix, a well-known live CD Linux distribution. He received his diploma in electrical engineering from the Kaiserslautern University of Technology (in German: Technische Universität Kaiserslautern), co-founded LinuxTag in 1996 (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, released in the third quarter of 2007 as a Live CD. Her name has been given to the distribution: Adriane Knoppix.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ "Free Operating System For Blind: Adriane Knoppix". EFY News. http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=17094. Retrieved on 2008-07-02.
[edit] External links
- Klaus Knopper personal profile at Knoppix (German)
- Meet The 'No Hard Disk' Man
- Free scores by Klaus Knopper in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)
