Does Knoppix work on Alphas, Sparcs, PowerPCs and numerous other achitectures other than x86?

Until it does, the installer means dick. Debian wants a consistent experience for EVERY platform it supports, from installer to package management.

This is why there is no real GUI installer yet, there isn't one that runs on all platforms correctly.

Every product that I've ever bought from SonicBlue has been malformed and returned to sender.

The technology sounds cool, but I'll probably wait until it's available from another vendor.