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Gnoppix is a Linux distribution primarily intended to offer the GNOME desktop environment on a Live CD, which allows the operating system to be used without installing it to hard disk.

Gnoppix was inspired by Knoppix, a well-known Live CD distribution which uses KDE for its user interface, and both distributions are based on the apt packaging system designed for Debian GNU/Linux. The name is a play on Knoppix but with a G in the tradition of naming GNOME apps with an initial G (to KDE's K).

Although Gnoppix is intended to be used as Live CD it can also be installed to and booted from a hard disk. Gnoppix was originally built around its own customised Live CD environment; the current edition, however, is a rebranded and customised version of Ubuntu.
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