To all intents and purposes, Knoppix is a Debian install. A very small number of packages come from the non-free branch, and one or two have "suspect" licencing issues (Nvidia drivers, and shockwave plugins spring to mind). The Knoppix kernel has one patch applied that isn't in the mainstream sources, it allows 512 characters on the boot command line.
If you don't want the heavyweight KDE and apps, an alternative would be Morphix http://www.morphix.org - This is a knoppix derivative that uses an interesting method of mixing and matching modules to produce a Live CD.
I have a Morphix system installed on two machines here at the moment - They certainly look like a "proper" Debian install, and I'm currently adding some packages from Sarge. No conflicts have been found to date - Nor do I expect any.
Regards, Paul.
On Friday 06 June 2003 9:03 pm, Ben Francis wrote:
Me too. I'd also like to know myself what the major differences are between a Knoppix HDD install and an average Debian install. I'm told that Knoppix IS debian once it is installed on the Hard Disk and the debian wallpaper that keeps popping up suggests this is correct. But you need to a dist-upgrade to make it "proper" debian.