Quote Originally Posted by benny_mott
may be Knoppix should be distributed as an executable
that is when down loaded and double click on it in windows XP say it writes ISO to CD-R
Boy, I don't know where to even start on this one. You're suggesting that in order to make a free copy of Knoppix, one would have to own Windows! It couldn't be made on a standard Linux system (at least without "Wine" or some other dubious hack). On top of the obvious problem with this, it hardly seems unreasonable to expect people who want a Knoppix disc to read for a minute or two and learn how to burn the disc properly. Heck, you could even include instructions in the download (although there are the people who would still ignore them and crank out coasters, as they do with the md5 checksums now). The Knoppix download is just fine as is, particularly the BitTorrent version, I see no reason to make it a pain for Linux or users who know what they are doing to make it easy for those who refuse to learn.

And don't forget the bad precidence of suggesting to people that they should just blindly download exe files and run then before they have a chance to see what it is that they have downloaded. With the current system I download an ISO, safely burn it to CD-RW or DVD+RW, I can examine it without running anything downloaded to confirm that what I have is really a Linux system, and then I transfer that disc to my testbed system for booting before I ever boot it on my desktop. If Knoppix (or any other fancy CD) came as an EXE that I had to run, I can assure you that I would never bother with it.