Hello everyone. A number of people have posted on on the Knoppix forums on Knopper.net about their desire to have the great hardware detection and union filesystem that Klaus has so wonderfully implemented, but without the software.(one of the discussion threads is here:
My humble request is that Klaus would provide a bare-bones OS that merely contains the hardware detection and the Union filesystem for development of alternatives to the CD and DVD versions he has supplied. Stripping the CD and DVD versions has proved troubling.
I'll only quote from the last two paragraphs of my last post:
Klaus has created a wonderful, useful OS. But, as has been said many times and many places, its usefulness is limited because the CD and DVD versions are "not meant to provide" a daily use OS and it has proven difficult to convert these version to an OS that could be used in that way. By giving us a simple, Debian compliant system, I think that Klaus could enable us to create a wonderful, productive, easily used and modified OS.
I realize it is totally up to him if he decides to do this or not. We're just asking. Please
Werner P. Shultz kindly pointed me to this venue, after letting me know that Klaus does not read the Knopper.net forum frequently. I hope you will give this idea consideration.