[quote="Harry Kuhman"]
Quote Originally Posted by Rich_Es
Yes running a "live" distro is slower, no it's not better to just use it as rescue cd.

Install it to your harddrive and you will see different results. This goes for any "live" distro.
What awful advice.
I beg your pardon ?

1) not all live CD are intended to be installed to hard disk, and Knoppix is known to have problems when installed.
All linux distro's have problems when installed on the hardrive. It just depends on the experience of the user to solve those problems. Many factors need to be taken into account depending on hardware, amount of RAM, processor speed, bandwidth etc.

2) while a Live CD is slower on things like loading programs because loading a program from an optical disk is generally slower than running it from hard disk, actually running the program once loaded shouldn't be slower at all. In some cases, like a browser, it may actually be faster since any temporary files (cookies, flash and other cached items) are saved to ram disk, not to hard disk.
SHOULDN'T be slower depending on the previously stated factors. The OP's friend told him to use his knoppix solely as a rescue disk, THAT is awful advice. As a modertaor, your tone is awful.

I have experience installing, testing, and configuring, upwards of 30 different distros, both Linux and Unix, including live distros. My first in 1994 (Suse). An installed distro will ALWAYS run better than a live distro. I'm sorry but that's a fact. Maybe you could enlighten me with your experience.

So your advice is don't install knoppix as it is known to have problems once installed. That is GOOD advice then?