The simplest way to put it is that Eidolon is a stable release, while Technomancer is a more bleeding-edge release. I do more work on technomancer these days. And I'll be shifting to new iso's very soon, based on jollix (gentoo), and clusterknoppix with a similar goals- desktop tweaking, stress-testing, distributed computing, and multimedia/desktop use.

Both are based on knoppix 3.2 06-06. Both feature addition the of opera, ncftp, folding@home. seti@home, prime-net, memtest, cpuburn, lucifer, karamba, eterm, aterm, nforce2 and broadcom 4400 NIC drivers, plus most of the same advanced network security tools found in Knoppix STD, and some tweaking to the look of the desktop. Both iso's were recently updated to fix the issue with msn and yahoo IM protocol changes. The boot screen has been edited, and the default cheatcodes have been edited. Both iso's will run a vncserver automatically at boot-time as I like to run these on boxes without peripherals.

Technomancer however has been apt-get upgraded to testing distribution (was done at the end of august '03- so most of its packages are as new or newer than knoppix 3.3's) and has some software and drivers that Eidolon doesn't (these new NIC drivers for kt400, kt600-canterwood, broadcom 5700), firebird, newer openoffice 1.1, mplayer and wm32 codecs, gftp, bittorrent, and mldonkey. However, it has some mild problems with the kmenu while Eidolon's kmenu works fine. Technomancer also has a further customization to the look of the icewm and fluxbox desktops than the Eidolon release. And as mentioned above the scripts that control the distributed computing client folding@home have been improved in Technomancer, though I plan to update Eidolon with the new drivers and scripts soon. Technomancer has the knoppix-installer and knx-hdinstall scripts, while Eidolon only has knx-hdinstall. Technomancer's installer scripts have both been edited slightly to install to a smaller drive (1.93GB min root partition size instead of 2.2GB minimum root partition size), because I have several 2GB drives that are too small for the standard installer scripts..

This is by no means a full list of the specifics of these iso's but it is a pretty good summary. Some screenshots below.... Technomacner features all the same background images as Eidolon plus some extras. Neither of these screenshots show the default background image in case you're wondering.

Here's a pic of KDE in Eidolon-




And here's a pic of Technomancer's KDE-



Technomancer's Fluxbox-




3c2000 is a gigabit card found on some kt600 and some canterwood motherboards. It has not been tested as I don't have the appropriate hardware. The newest Technomancer iso is uploading now and should be available early on 1-10-04.