- Klaus Knopper
Klaus Knopper (b. 1968 in
Ingelheim ) is a Germanelectrical engineer andFree Software developer.Knopper is the creator of
Knoppix andGnoppix Fact|date=September 2008, both well-knownlive CD Linux distributions. He received his diploma in electrical engineering from theKaiserslautern University of Technology (in German: "Technische Universität Kaiserslautern"), co-foundedLinuxTag in 1996 (a majorEurope an Linux expo) and has been a self-employedinformation 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 . [cite web | url = http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=17094 | title = Free Operating System For Blind: Adriane Knoppix | publisher = EFY News | accessdate = 2008-07-02]References
External links
* [http://www.knopper.net/knopper/ Klaus Knopper personal profile at Knoppix] de icon
* [http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=16962 Meet The 'No Hard Disk' Man]
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