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[EmDee]

Well, I thought the idea of Knoppix was to have an easy to install distribution based on debian, with good hardware detection.

Nope, see http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ (you speak german, right?) it's original idea was to have an "instant" Linux environmentwith a "hands-free" boot procedure for Software demos, as a rescue system or even to get some work done in a clean environment. Christ, it wasn't even intended to have an installer script and it's based on Debian for easier maintainance!

So you basically are saying that newbies are left out since the boot the CD don't know how to proceede and give up.

Well, theres the kind of newbies who are absolutely clueless, don't read the docs and rather go ask somebody else because they are too fscking lazy to do the research for themselves! I mean theres at least an readme and an FAQ on every download mirror and on the CD itself (even accessible without booting the cd) which also mentions the install process in detail! I don't think I'm asking too much here, right? But I guess some people just need to be spoon fed...
And theres also the kind of newbies that are interested and those mostly don't have a hard time getting knoppix running... surprise surprise
After all knoppix is not targeted at linux gurus!

I see that the knoppix forum is small, but so far after making experiments for some weeks I have the feeling that Knoppix is one of
the easiest and troublefree distributions around, plus it uses debian.

I agree, but the fact that knoppix is built on top of debian doesn't make it any better, technically. But it makes maintaining and customization as easy as 1-2-3 And if knoppix can have a piece of the Debian fame to make it appeal better to some people, so be it.

I'm done now, I've already said too much; a simple google search would've given you about the same answers to your question}:-/

Have a nice day!