I disagree a little. 5.3 is sluggish and has about 10 kilograms of excess stuff I will never use.

Create a large home directory with 6.01, and just open synaptic and download/upgrade what you need.

I used knoppix prior to the 6.01 release and saving sessions was oddly cumbersome and unreliable for me (.img for home and .tar.gz for config?!) I just never really stuck to it.

I am using 6.01 as my main OS (I have Arch w Kdemod 4.2, Kubuntu Karmic, XP) and not as a Hard install, but as the 'boot from image using a home directory .img' I am not only impressed with it's speed but overall utility.

I guess it depends on what you need.

Some important things ARE missing: build-essential and ndiswrapper. Say you have a wireless device, no lan cable but you do have the win driver. Ndiswrapper is such a small package to have on the CD. Build-essential is not so small, but somewhat necessary.

I wish everyone would drop networkmanager in favor of WICD!