• Finnix is based on Debian “testing”; Knoppix is based on Debian “unstable” and several other repositories. • Finnix is available as a ~100MB ISO; Knoppix is available as a 700MB or 3.5GB ISO (CD/DVD editions). • Knoppix includes XFree86 and many, many desktop and productivity tools and games; Finnix does not. • Finnix includes utilities not found in Knoppx, such as LVM2, cryptsetup, cdpr, iftop, irssi, an OTP calculator, VLAN tools, and the essential robotfindskitten. • Finnix uses a different Linux kernel than Knoppix. • Finnix uses an almost completely reworked initrd, a compressed ROM filesystem with BusyBox; Knoppix’s initrd uses a compressed ext2 filesystem with statically compiled tools. • Finnix uses squashfs for the compressed loopback filesystem; Knoppix uses cloop. • Finnix can be copied to RAM and run in only 192MB; Knoppix requires at least 1GB. • Knoppix is available in several languages and has an impressive array of internationalization tools; Finnix is English only. •