Quote Originally Posted by felmon
..... and I definitely agree with the fellow who likes having a lot of software already installed - I would rather de-install stuff than go out and install and fall into difficulties....
One big problem here is that uninstalling things, and particularly installing anything else, even something seemingly innocent, can seriously break Knoppix. Knoppix is a mix of different versions of Debian, carefully tested to pretty much work OK off the CD, but often problems are seen when it is put on a hard drive and very often problems are see if one tries to install anything additional at all or even just update the software that is already there. With Debian you can very easily apt-get install anything and everything that you want, stuff included on Knoppix and a lot that isn't, don't have to take all of the stuff on Knoppix that you will never use, and you end up with a much more stable system.