QiLinux è una bellissima distro tutta italiana e tutta "originale" (cioè non si basa su altre).

L'ho installlata, l'ho provata, ma per mancanza di tempo, è da un pò che non la uso, ma appena posso, la voglio approfondire. Se ricordo bene, usa apt-get, ma con gli RPM (ma spero di non dire fesserie).

Per quanto riguarda Knoppix:

"What is KNOPPIX®?

KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a productive Linux system for the desktop, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it (over 8GB on the DVD "Maxi" edition).

-=> KNOPPER.NET News <=-

KNOPPIX 5.0.1 public release on June 2 2006

At CeBIT 2006, a preview of Knoppix 5 was introduced, which has now been updated with the new Kernel and udev hotplug management. The new version includes a few bugfixes and KDE 3.5.2. Version 5.0.1 will be available for download on the public mirrors and (the DVD version only) inside the 07/06 issue of the german PC Welt magazine. At the same time together with the DVD edition, a CD version with somewhat reduced content ("Best of Desktop applications") will be published on the mirrors.
[Knoppix Cover]

What's new

* Linux Kernel 2.6.17 (rc)
* Debian (testing/unstable)
* Xorg Version 7.0
* Detection of onboard IDE-Raid Controllers and raid disk components
* udev+hwsetup for automatic hardware detection
* KDE 3.5.2, GNOME 2.12 from Debian/unstable
* OpenOffice 2.0.2 (german+english)
* transparent write access for NTFS partitions (libntfs+fuse)
* new knoppix-installer now also with the possibility to update existing installations of Knoppix
* Many, MANY Updates... "

Tuttavia, oltre che come "live" è anche una ottima distro una volta installata, con tutte le caratteristiche di una Debian molto aggiornata e con un eccellente riconoscimentio HW. Notevolissimo è poi l'l'elenco di "cheatcodes" da passare al boot (o da inserire in grub) per risolvere situazioni HW particolari. In questo penso che non abbia rivali ...

E poi, è stata la prima "live" ... e resta la migliore ...