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Knoppix has an excellent system I think. I'd like to see it generalized from it's live-cd cage and expanded into a multi-arch system. From what I understand it is a database of known hardware, a collection of configuration scripts, and hardware detection libraries correctly lashed together. It seems to me that most of the work is done and all that is needed some control panels and the ability to selectively override or turn it off. If it were more widely adopted, we would see a snowball effect as more configs and detects are added to it.

It has already been adopted by other live-cds and effectively functions as a one-time configurator when a user elects to install the live-cd to hard drive.

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