I haven't downloaded the latest Knoppix-CD yet.
I'm using version 3.0 as rescue-CD. I liked there is also IceWM. IceWM is much faster for login and usually much better in keyboard support of menus.
Just version 1.2.7 is worse as of keyboard support. Version 1.2.8 is better.
Thus I would appreciate to have version 1.2.8 or later.
In addition I would appreciate a monitoring tool such as gkrellm or else xosview.