What does 30+ remasters say about Knoppix?

[eadz]

There is an almost staggering list of Knoppix remasters, and I'm wondering if this is a Good Thing or a Bad Thing, from Knoppix's point of view?

[ktheking]

good thing : more and more reasons for regular users to use linux (for example the american army iso from gentoo with knoppix cloop)
good thing : people can see ,one can actually USE knoppix

in the future maybe knoppix as a software distribution platform :
integrate your application directly with the os. (such as america's army game) . Would be nice for game developers ... . Turn every pc into playstation

bad thing : chaos could be created => no one knows which distribution was used to create the remaster

[aay]

There is an almost staggering list of Knoppix remasters, and I'm wondering if this is a Good Thing or a Bad Thing, from Knoppix's point of view?

I think it's a very good thing. Sure there is plenty of overlap here and there should probably be more colaboration rather than starting new projects, but the sheer number of remasters illustrates just how flexible and useful Knoppix really is. The default release just cannot hold enough apps or be customized enough to suit everyone's needs.

BTW, I just located a new remaster

Echelonlinux

It's been added to the customisations page.

[Tech2k]

"kix" may have been the first but since it had no remastering info I think that eadz is the one that started all the spin-offs and I think all the remasters and forks are a good thing

I know I spent a few hours looking at this :
http://www.linux.net.nz/lists/NZLUG/2002/08/0609.html

Now we have this web site full of great info and it's growing fast.Thanks eadz