LiveCDs, take 2

[thephotoman]

1. Though it has a lot more than fixing things, Knoppix is the best bet 
for being able to fix anything on an i386 architecture.  It has a 
partitioning tool, but I can't remember which one it is.

2. I have no clue.  However, when I got the latest one and saw the 
Ubuntu watermark as the default desktop, I was scratching my head a bit.

Travis Newman wrote:
> OK there's obviously the Ubuntu live cd, then theres Knoppix, Gnoppix, 
> Mepis, many others that I haven't looked at yet, but it seems that most 
> are based on Debian. I have a couple questions.
> 
> 1) I'm not using a live CD as a standard distribution. I don't really 
> care about the web browsers, email clients, office apps, or anything. I 
> just want a live CD for fixing things. Which one of these would you 
> suggest?
> Preferably one with qtparted for partitioning, but that's not necessary.
> 
> 2) What exactly is the relationship between Gnoppix and Ubuntu? It says 
> on their website that they have a joint effort going on now, and that 
> the newest version is codenamed Warty and based on Ubuntu instead of 
> Debian. But the contact information is Canonical. Are the Gnoppix and 
> Ubuntu live cds essentially the same at this point?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Travis Newman
>