Is Knoppix V7.6 almost ready?

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These are a few thoughts on using Knoppix 7.6 for a few hours.

My usual approach is to download a Knoppix LiveDVD iso to a Windows 7 computer
and then use an earlier Knoppix LiveUSB to burn an actual LiveDVD from the iso.
I use the LiveDVD only once to make a new LiveUSB as I did this time.
I have good luck with 16 Gb SanDisk Ultra Fit Cruzers which are USB-3 capable.
My computers are only USB-2 capable, but the Cruzers use more of the USB-2
capability than do most SDHC cards. I allotted 5 Gb for reiserfs persistence,
so there's a lot of unused space on my Knoppix 7.6 LiveUSBs.

I have a number of pet adjustments I always like to make to my Knoppix LiveUSBs,
and have saved recipes that allow me to move in comfortably in a few hours.
A tarred and zipped copy of these adjustments takes up only about 20 Mb. These
20 Mb comes in handy to rapidly recover from a ruined read/write persistence file,
which happens now and then.

It's been so long since I made a new Knoppix LiveUSB, I'd forgotten how to
rearrange apps on the lxpanel. Somehow I loused that up, but recovered by just
starting over. I checked my LiveUSB on both a Win7 computer with legacy boot
and a Win8 computer with both legacy boot and uefi. The only surprise I ran
across was that for my Win8 using uefi boot, it was not possible to get a
meaningful testdvd. This really doesn't matter in this instance since I could
pull off a satisfactory testdvd with either Win7 or Win8 in legacy mode.

Both machines are dual 64-bit cpu Dell Inspiron laptops which boot to browser
on-line in 30 seconds or less, and will shut-down in 8 seconds or less using
the Knoppix 7.6 LiveUSB described earlier.

The only surprises I have to report so far are:
1. The Knoppix 7.6 OS is contained in two cloops KNOPPIX and KNOPPIX1 which
together take up only 4.1 Gb of vfat storage. KNOPPIX is the 7.6 OS proper;
KNOPPIX1 is a single application which mounts only on the /usr wing of the OS.
This application is called Blender.
2. There is no hassle with Touchpad gestures screwing up text processing as
has been the case for years with previous Linuxes of all stripes. You don't
need to disable the Touchpad in Knoppix 7.6.

Here's a filesystem outline of my Knoppix 7.6 LiveUSB:

knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ df
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs         rootfs    2.0G   48K  2.0G   1% /
/dev/sdb1      vfat      9.2G  4.1G  5.1G  45% /mnt-system
tmpfs          tmpfs     3.1G     0  3.1G   0% /ramdisk
/dev/cloop     iso9660   9.7G  9.7G     0 100% /KNOPPIX
/dev/cloop1    iso9660   352M  352M     0 100% /KNOPPIX1
/dev/sdb2      reiserfs  5.4G  387M  5.0G   8% /media/sdb2
unionfs        aufs      5.4G  387M  5.0G   8% /usr
tmpfs          tmpfs      20M  3.1M   17M  16% /run
tmpfs          tmpfs      10M  4.0K   10M   1% /UNIONFS/var/lock
tmpfs          tmpfs     100M   56K  100M   1% /UNIONFS/var/log
tmpfs          tmpfs     2.0G  8.0K  2.0G   1% /tmp
udev           devtmpfs   20M     0   20M   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs     2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     392M  8.0K  392M   1% /run/user/1000
tmpfs          tmpfs     392M     0  392M   0% /run/user/0
/dev/sdc1      vfat      1.9G  551M  1.3G  30% /media/sdc1

/dev/sdc1 is just a small SDHC with some notes on it.

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The only surprises I have to report so far are:
1. The Knoppix 7.6 OS is contained in two cloops KNOPPIX and KNOPPIX1 which
together take up only 4.1 Gb of vfat storage. KNOPPIX is the 7.6 OS proper;
KNOPPIX1 is a single application which mounts only on the /usr wing of the OS.
This application is called Blender. etc.

On closer inspection,
1a. The size of KNOPPIX is the maximum filesize that fat32 will accept. It contains the Knoppix OS
and a lot of apps.
1b. KNOPPIX1 (currently) contains two additional apps, FreeCAD & Blender, that Klaus K wanted to include.

Somewhere, someone else has already noted the distribution iso itself won't fit on fat32,
but requires either ntfs, linux for examples to hold it. By dumb luck, the only space
I have enough-of for isos is ntfs.

A third surprise for me is that iwlist does not behave in 7.6 as it did in 7.4.
As a compensation, nmcli does all iwlist ever did and more, so I've switched from iwlist to nmcli
for some of my tweaks.