what live distro is the best for graphic and sound hardware recognition & auto setup?
 

hello,
I have a USB with choice menu for different distro
- knoppix
- archbang
- tinycore vesa
- puppy
It help me to achieve an immediate experience with a good immediate hardware recognition (by choosing the different distro). In that case, I can see which modules are loaded and then later I can implement quicker the target distro which setup is based on the setups recognized by one of the distros.

Question: which other distro should be part of that USB?

mint ubuntu ?

Mint works flawlessly here. Everything works right out of the box :) Definately a distro to put on your USB stick.

OpenSUSE has worked better out of the box than any Ubuntu or Mint version I've tried on various hardware.

I could not find a liveCD ISO from OpenSUSE with Openbox. The available KDE and GNOME ISO will certainly overload the processor of "old" PC. Where to find it? (Im still searching)

Debian Live non-free

I'd give aptosid/siducation Xfce/Lxde/razor Qt (depending on target system specs and personal preference) a try.

Debian sid based so they should have very current drivers.

I think they only have live CDs for Gnome and KDE, however I believe Openbox is in the standard repo, and might be available on the live DVD as well. You might also be able to build your own with Openbox:
https://build.opensuse.org/

which iso of http://live.debian.net/cdimage/relea...86/iso-hybrid/ ?

Pick one, there is Gnome, JDE, LXDE, and XFCE in both i386 and amd64. You are flushed with choice what more can any Linux fan want?

suse studio?
It seems to be a pain: I could not do anything since two days..
So if somebody can create a CD Live Suse OpenBox (toolkit CD) without games/mail/office but typically for a boot and install procedure, and post the result anywhere, I would be happy.
I am loosing my patience with my first Suse try.