I have seen quite a few comments about not reccommending that Knoppix be used on the hard drive, that is was made to be a Live CD only. Could the folks who have this opinion give me their reasons? Not a flame war, just honest opinions and reasons.

I have been using Debian since Red Hat abandoned the non-commercial side of Linux. But I discovered Knoppix back about 3.3 and fell in love with it. Used it not only on my machines at home but also as the desktop in several school labs. We have several production servers with 3.6 to 3.8 and they work flawlessly. The fact that they are so solid is the main reason that we got permission to begin to migrate from that bloatware nightmare called IIS and later WinXX. As far as I can see, once you apt-get upgrade you wind up with almost the same OS as if you installed Woody in the first place. Of course, you still have to go through the security stuff and make sure that there are no gaping holes, but any sane administrator would need to do that with a commercial Enterprise system also.

Version 3.8 is the most stable Linux that I have seen yet. We had our MS IIS proxy die about one day before it HAD to be online for testing and our techies were bouncing off the wall trying to get it up without success. By the next morning we had built a "Temporary" server from parts from Fry's electronics, loaded K3.8, Squid and Dansguardian, and made it with about 4 hours to spare. Months later it is still running and servicing about 1500 internet users in our district. A "real" one has been built and loaded and is on standby but so far we have seen absolutely no reason to replace the one that we cranked up during the disaster.

So, you aren't going to change my mind, but I am open to argument.

Thanx all.
DelphiDude