Carrying everything with you

Knoppix can use any FAT partition to save system configuration as well as user data (home folder). You can, indeed, use a USB flash drive to store both the system configuration and home folder. Some of the newer USB flash drives have up to 1GB of storage, which is more than sufficient for the average end user just for data storage.

This means with a Knoppix CD and a USB flash drive, you can now use most computers as your workstation. This is particularly useful for students because they can now do their homework assignments in the school as long as they can find computers that can boot to Knoppix.

To schools, colleges and universities, this also means the ability to utilize low cost disk-less workstations. There is no need software maintenance, and no software to purchase. Each student only needs to purchase a blank CD-R or CD-RW and a USB flash drive. With the vast amount of included applications, Knoppix can be useful for office tasks to artistic work to even programming homework assignments.