Gnoppix

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Gnoppix
Gnoppix 2.12
Website	www.gnoppix.org
Company/ developer	Klaus Knopper
OS family	Linux
Source model	Free software / open source software
Latest stable release	2.12 / September 7, 2005
Kernel type	Monolithic kernel
License	Various
Working state	Discontinued

Gnoppix is a Linux distribution primarily intended to offer the GNOME desktop environment on a Live CD, which allows the operating system to be used without installing it to hard disk.

Gnoppix was inspired by Knoppix, a Live CD distribution which uses KDE for its user interface. Both distributions are created by the same creator, Klaus Knopper, and based on Advanced Packaging Tool, designed for Debian. The name is a play on Knoppix but with a G in the tradition of naming GNOME apps with an initial G (to KDE's K).

Although Gnoppix is intended to be used as Live CD it can also be installed to and booted from a hard disk. Gnoppix was originally built around its own customised Live CD environment; the last editions, however, were a rebranded and customised version of ubuntu.