Sorry for wanky language but that's the word: spot on. This post has covered everything I've been thinking about knoppix.

I'd also like to know the main differences between Knoppix/Debian.


Differences I've noticed but unsure how to fix/change:

- the CD drive is given a very high priority. Try coping a file from CD to somewhere, you'll find that X slows and nearly freezes.
To fix this may be something quite simple as re-nicing a task (nice is the priority of a task) .
But I think it's more than that, knopper has done some magic at a lower level, driver level even perhaps?

- the X GUI is a bit slow loading icons? due to memory organisation perhaps? (caching?)

- the pointer in X is such that the hot spot point (the part you aim with) doesn't seem to be aligned with the top of the arrow. It seems to be a bit lower than expected. I know this is certainly true if you try to move a window in KDE.

- on "apt-get update":
"Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing libxaw6-dbg (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7ebranden_sid_i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened."

= surely a problem only I'm getting? Can't dist-upgrade atm