Klaus Knopper
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.
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]
External link
- Klaus Knopper personal profile at Knoppix (in German).
He is also known as 'No Hard Disk' Man, a name given by an Indian journalist Swapnil Bhartiya. See reference -- http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=16962
References
- ^ Swapnil Bhartiya, EFY News, Free Operating System For Blind: Adriane Knoppix accessed 2 February 2007
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