No, Dyne:bolic it's not based on Knoppix (nor Debian nor any other existing distro).

It's all built from scratch with optimized compilation flags which makes it quite performant on multimedia tasks. Just basic parts like libc, X and gcc have been compiled with the help of Gentoo scripts. It doesn't use cloop either, but squashfs.

Dyne:bolic is pretty different to Knoppix. It took birth as a grassroot effort to spread Free Software and the spirit of sharing informations. It is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, to stimulate the production and not only the fruition of digital and analog informations. It is a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only Free Software!

It's not bloated with programs, it just has the right program for each task. Thus, it doen't include KDE nor GNOME, but WindowMaker & Fluxbox.

Give it a try!

Greetings,
Quique