Debian doesn't stop to amaze me. I have an "old" 2 GiB RAM MacAirbook1,1 without its hard drive and without internal CMOS timing and with only one USB port (I wonder what those folks were thinking about when they designed those laptops).
A Debian live DVD boots fine from a USB hub, then I go "hwclock --set ..." and do a hot reset (the set time will be kept) and use a USB pen drive. Knoppix just shows to me a question sign on a light and dark gray background. I will get "married" to Debian (why not? some people would marry their pets ... ;-)) if it includes the following startup options right of the live DVD: * toram * memtest * testCD In my opinion none of those functions are hard to include at all. You can -almost- always go monkey and do that one way or another, but I would like for Debian to make more official an offline mode for using apt probably based on java, so that any machine could be used to download packages to be then installed off-line for those of us who don't/can't see the Internet as a trusted environment. I would also love to see networking taken out of the Linux kernel, but this is an entirely different, hellishly "political" issue. lbrtchx