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[Kasper Souren <address@hidden>]

> As far as texmacs and friends are concerned, what is the difference
> between these two distros?
>
> How do they compare as TeXmacs demo discs?

With Quantian you can also show the way TeXmacs can be used as an interface 
for various CAS'es.

Knoppix is the 'mother' of all Linux live CD's. Quantian (and many others) 
are 
(mostly) based on Knoppix. Knoppix' (and thus Quantian's) hardware detection 
is really excellent.

All these live CD's can be copied freely, so you can just keep some in your 
pocket to give away to people that think that Linux is still only for people 
who are commandline wizards. And they're also great as rescue discs. And with 
the USB storage stuff you can keep your system easily in your pocket (with 
your /home on the USB thingy).

> The all-in-one scientific environment. That might become as well-known
> as the value of pi in some circles.

I'm hoping that people will start creating bootable DVD's of this kind! A 
little arithmetics seems to suggest that you can put something like 12 GB of 
(compressed) software on such a DVD. So then you don't have to limit yourself 
to science, education, clusters (google for clusterKnoppix!) but you'd just 
need one little disc that has it all.

bye,
Kasper