"This summer I had the pleasure of being the editor for the new O'Reilly book Knoppix Hacks. Though I had futzed with Knoppix before, and even created a customized version of it for an O'Reilly event, I was not a regular user of the live CD.
"However, after seeing some of the hacks that the author Kyle Rankin put together I became much more interested. Knoppix is an incredibly versatile tool, in that it is a convenient medium for carrying a bunch of other tools that let you do some insanely useful and sometimes just fun things. Of course, that is the whole purpose of a hacks book..."
