LiveCDs, take 2

[Travis Newman]

OK there's obviously the Ubuntu live cd, then theres Knoppix, Gnoppix, 
Mepis, many others that I haven't looked at yet, but it seems that most 
are based on Debian. I have a couple questions.

1) I'm not using a live CD as a standard distribution. I don't really 
care about the web browsers, email clients, office apps, or anything. I 
just want a live CD for fixing things. Which one of these would you suggest?
Preferably one with qtparted for partitioning, but that's not necessary.

2) What exactly is the relationship between Gnoppix and Ubuntu? It says 
on their website that they have a joint effort going on now, and that 
the newest version is codenamed Warty and based on Ubuntu instead of 
Debian. But the contact information is Canonical. Are the Gnoppix and 
Ubuntu live cds essentially the same at this point?

Thanks!

Travis Newman