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.
I see, this was my first impression. Now given the almost enthusiastic reviews I got the impression that it might serve also as an easy to install distribution

Christ, it wasn't even intended to have an installer script and it's based on Debian for easier maintainance!
given all the problems with a RPM based distribution expressed by the countless complains
in say linuxtoday.com, I think to base the distribution on debian is a very good idea.

Since debian is a little awkward in the installation (at least when I tried woody a year ago)
especially if it comes to hardware detection, Knoppix might become (may be unwillingly)
a wild card.


But anyhow all this goes into hypothetical philosophical question. As you said Knoppix was
and is not intened to be an easy-to-install debian based distribution, so let us forget the
subject.


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