Survey of CD "minimal" version by K. Knopper

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Yes please, CD for me - everytime!
Knoppix is my "let's see" boot disk;
my investigations boot disk:
my (initial) problem solving disk disk;
my first choice rescue boot disk;
my dig windoze out of a hole boot disk;
my copy user data from dead computer boot disk;
my wipe and re-partition computer boot disk
... in short it's always the first boot disk i take out of my "bag of tricks".

TBH i don't want to have to worry if this particular computer can boot from DVD or USB - frankly, that's just one more complication that i can do without.

Give me a boot CD
with a good partitioning program (Gparted is great);
a half decent file manager;
a browser;
a desktop that doesn't use a lot of resources;
a usable text editor,
plus, ideally,
a GUI front end to install any other packages i might need
and i am a very happy bunny.

Previous releases of Knoppix have given me all that in spades and that's why Knoppix has been my "special forces" boot CD for a long time - the previous one was Lindows!

Please, even it you only give us the thing basic stuff that i have mentioned above, please, PLEASE reconsider and give us a CD version of the latest release(s).