Quote Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman
But the one underlying truth is that Knoppix is a mix of stable, testing and unstable, and maybe even with some other stuff thrown in too. It's well tuned for running from a Live CD. But from all I can see it does not work as well when installed to a hard disk.
Yes, I agree this is certainly true for Knoppix. But it isn't true for Kanotix or Mepis! Knoppix is built primarily as a live CD and is not the best for a HD installation. Kanotix, in particular, is much closer to standard Debian sid (unstable) and is tailored for HD installation. My main machine was originally installed with Mepis 2004.03 but I then apt upgraded to unstable and have been updating weekly for many months. I've never had a problem.