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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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I've used Scribus for ads and articles in several publications, and it's easily as capable as any of the proprietary offerings out there.
I also would not discount Inkscape as a layout tool. It's not necessarily the "right" tool for the job by the traditional art school standards, but enough people use their illustration programme to cheat quick layouts that I think it still counts for something.
The process to make ADRIANE the default is explained on the Knoppix website. For example, here: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix64-en.html (do a search for "boot" on that page; first result is where you want to be).
That example assumes you're putting Knoppix on a USB drive. Obviously you can't change the boot defaults on a Read Only media like a CD or DVD.
Hope that helps.