eek! By blowing up I don't mean any PHYSICAL damage
Just basically messing up the installation so taht you have to re-install.
SuSE is actually a pretty decent distro. I haven't really used it much but I do understand it's pretty user friendly. However, the way in which it installs software makes it so that it's a bit harder to install software I THINK. SuSE, if I'm not mistaken, doesn't use RPMs and has it's own thing. As such, I THINK it's harder to find binaries to install programs for it if they're not included or not the latest version included on the CDs. Of course, I could be totally wrong since I've only used it a little bit.
DemoLinux is pretty old and the concept has since been all but replaced by Knoppix and Gnoppix. Correct me if I'm wrong nothingx, but I don't think there are any differences between how DemoLinux works and how *noppix works. Never heard about the legal issues though - that's interesting. I wonder what they were.