OT: New Virus?

[Jack Simth]

Imperator Fyron said:
Knoppix is most certainly capable of being installed as a normal installation, not needing the live CD anymore. Same with Mepis.

Sure you can, but that's rather far from the intent of the distributions - check it's website; from the main page, under "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).

The primary thing that differentiates Knoppix from other flavors of Linux is that it is intended for a boot disk. Most other flavors of Linux (not all) are intended to be permanently installed on the main hard disk of a computer.