Lëshohet versioni i parë i Knoppix në formatin maxi: një live e instalueshme prej 3.09 GB.
Gjithashtu, mund të shkarkohet si zakonisht edhe versioni light, në një CD të vetme.
Në vazhdim, një përmbledhje e veçorive kryesore:
Main features of the Knoppix 4.0.1 DVD:
* Kernel 2.6.12(.4)
* KDE 3.4.1 including all languages from Debian/experimental, and Gnome 2.8 as alternative,
* OpenOffice 2.0 Beta (Build 104) in english and german,
* KOffice 1.3.5,
* Abiword 2.2.7 and Gnumeric 1.5.1,
* Books: Updated Editions of "Knoppix Kompakt" by Rainer Hattenhauer (german) und "Knowing Knoppix" by Phil Jones (english), also the Open Source Jahrbuch 2005 "light" in german language, all books in PDF,
* Software distribution system m23
* over 9 Gigabytes of live software from Debian, based on Sarge,
* many updates and bugfixes (for example, floppyconfig, knoppix-installer),
* many programming languages, development tools and IDEs for QT (kdevelop3), Java (GCJ, eclipse) and .NET (mono),
* graphics of version 4.0.1 designed by newthinking networks.
Also: A free (GPL) NTFS write support is currently under development. Experimental-oriented developers may find the corresponding tools and instructions for accessing rw-mounts of NTFS-Partitions, on the DVD (use at your own risk).