32 or 64 bit

[Capricorny]

In practice, the distinction is not very clear-cut, Knoppix 7.6.1 may be viewed as something of a 32/64 hybrid. Running the 64-bit kernel with the right 32/64 libraries, you may be able to make quite a few 64-bits applications run, and arch reports x86_64, exactly the same as my live Debian 8.3.0. I could run that as a 64-bits guest in kvm, but I couldn't make VMware install the 64-bits version of Workstation 10. There might be a workaround for that, but I don't take the time to look for it, for I am able to use standard Debian 8.3.0 in about the same way I have used Knoppix, with poor man's installs and persistent store.

[Capricorny]

As a small illustration of this, I just checked running a remastered Debian 8.3.0 with VMware Workstation 10 installed, in kvm under Knoppix 7.6.1, no modifications, just Knoppix out of the box w/4GB persistent store. There is a memory limit of 2047 MB in Knoppix kvm, but using that I was even able to start 64-bits VMware in the virtual machine, with up to 1200x1600 resolution. So it can be a bit misleading to call this a 32-bits system, just with a 64 bits kernel option.

[utu]

...I am able to use standard Debian 8.3.0 in about the same way I have used Knoppix...

Were you successful in knoppifying Debian Live? or Debianizing Knoppix? It would be nice to see a merger with some
of the characteristics of each. I sure don't need all the apps that Klaus K provides, but bloat is no longer a problem
with the current low cost of SDs, Cruzers and such. The 64-bit kernel is worth it from the access to memory aspect alone.

Klaus K doesn't seem to have time himself to provide a minimal version in addition to the DVD, although he has finally
gone to multiple overlays for the basic DVD version for his own purposes. A re-definition might suffice to have a
'CD-size' KNOPPIX overlay and a complementary KNOPPIX1 overlay, that in combination with KNOPPIX defines,
on their union, a DVD-size KNOPPIX. Then some of us could just ignore KNOPPIX1 and build on the CD-size overlay.
Just as one might remove the current 7.6.1 KNOPPIX1 if one has no 3d-designer inclinations.