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General things about Linux and Kanotix:

• What is Kanotix all about ?
• Kanotix 2005-01 Snapshots
  • Kanotix 2005-03 Snapshots - Part 1?
  • Kanotix 2005-03 Snapshots - Part 2?
  • Kanotix 2005-03 Snapshots - Part 3?
• What you should know to understand the answers in the forum
• Information about burning Kanotix on CD
• xdelta Patch
• What is a MD5Sum
• Tips and links for Linux beginners
• The best "misspellings" for Kanotix and other OSs
• General list of Linux commands
• Reference books, on-line books, links recommended over and over
• Links of interest to Kanotix users
• Internet-Cafe?Adapting Kanotix without remastering
• Linux at a glance for windows converts
• The first 3 days in Linux of a Windows user

Installation and booting

• Basic installation and Troubleshooting
• Installation slideshow (for i586)
• Using the most current Kanotix installer?
• Hard disk installation of KANOTIX?
• Kanotix on a HP Compaq nc8000 laptop
• Poormans Install (Copying the CD to harddisk)
• Booting Kanotix from a USB stick
• Parameters (cheatcodes) for starting
• Kanotix BH6+7 stops with CD boot of CD - the error 21
• Installation with Grub or Lilo
• Information about the grub boot manager
• Installing Grub
• Grub after-install
• Moving your home directory to another partition
• Which packages are on hold?
• Swapfile (on old hardware with little RAM and a free partition)
• Downgrading from SID/Unstable to Sarge/Testing
• Enhancement-scripts - List of scripts (not being updated!)
• Kanotix kernel updates
• A set of test boot floppies for Kanotix
• Kanotix Installation Notes for 2005-04

Problems

• Umlauts with FAT32
• HD SamsungSP1614N
• Windows doesn't start anymore after the installation of Kanotix
• Correcting defects in menu colors
• No sound for user
• X-server refused --> solutions
• Solving problems: apt-get dist-upgrade
• Odd behaviour with netselect-apt and apt-get
• Speeding up Firefox
• Problems with system time and BIOS clock
• DNS resolution takes a very long time
• Problems with nvidia 6629
• Empty Fluxbox Menu?

Network

• Samba Configuration
• NIS - Network Information Service
  • Installing NIS
  • How do I remove NIS
• Keeping the system clock synchronized with the atomic clock
• Setting up cups, so that other computers in the local network can print
• NFS-Server (Data exchange between different computers)?
• Faster DNS for Modems
• Installing ICA Client for Citrix Metaframe
• AVM Fritz
  • So you come on the Internet with Bluetooth and BlueFritz! Ap-DSL!
  • Tips and problems with Fritz!DSL from AVM?
  • With Bluetooth and BlueFritz! ISDN on Internet?
• Setting up an APT Proxy Server
• Computers coded remote control (aka Remote Desktop)?
• Installing an FTP server?
• Installing phpbb2?
• WLAN
  • Keeping Wlan configuration with each start
  • Installing D-Link W-LAN cards?
  • Configuration of D-Link DWL-122 (USB)?
  • Configuration of DELL Wireless LAN Adapter Broadcom 1450
  • W-LAN cards with Windowsdrivers?
• NFS-Server (data exchange between different pcs)
• Setting up a private network with (and without) a router?

Administration

• Slimming down Kanotix
• Old-Kernel cleanup
• Apt - The Debian packages manager
  • Installing Debian packages with APT
  • apt-get dist-upgrade: an example∞
  • (additional) APT Sources
  • Solving problems: apt-get dist-upgrade?
• Making .deb files installable?
• Installing drivers offline∞
• Setting the root password back or becoming root
• Setting up the timezone
• Automatically start programs after rebooting
• Fixing problems after KDE update?
• Automatizing with Cron?
• Updating Kanotix Scripts
• Saving and Recovering KMail data
• Use of update rc.d
• How do I remove LVM
• Tool to configure an Nvidia card
• How to become a superuser, to change config files?
• Num-Lock/ Number block with each start on/out?
• List of services, which are started after a new install∞
• Tools
  • Synaptic?
  • Partition Image Howto
  • Simplify commands with Alias?
• Managing a Kanotix hard disk installation as a Debian Sid system
  • Using aptitude instead of apt-get

Security

• Encrypting Filesystems?

Software Tips

• The favourites of the wiki-users?
• Language Aids - German English Other - Translation Keyboard Localize
• Setting up the Ding english-german dictionary
• Setting up Gaim-vv
• Installing Java development environment (IDE)?
• ACPI and CPU monitoring with Superkaramba?
• Overview of file extensions?
• nxclient notes?
• Installing Eclipse on a hard disk installation of Kanotix
• Getting sound alerts as a non-root user
• Installing Nessus on a hard disk installation of Kanotix
• NTFS Write Support with Captive
• Ripping OGGs & MP3s with Konqueror?
• Compiling Java Programs into Machine Code

Hardware Tips

• Changing Resolution
• Using two monitors (nvidia)?
• Using DVB cards?
  • Starting PCTVSat from BH7
  • Starting Nexus with BH7?
  • Starting SkyStar2 with BH9
• Synaptics Touchpad Installation
• Burner detection made easy
• ATI IGP Direct Rendering with Kanotix
• Automatically mounting USB memory ?
• Scanner works only as root
• Embedded Kanotix?
• Canon Printer Driver?
• Cedega from CVS?
• ATI IGP Direct Rendering on Kanotix - mini-HOWTO

Kanotix HD-Install Tuning

• Systemstart
  • Colored boot messages
  • Bootsplash?

Live CD and From Image

• Union file system unionro unionrw
• Persistent Home Plus Union, New in Kanotix-2005-04
• grow-knoppix clone your custom kanotix
• toram
• fromhd fromiso

Browser

• Tunderbird & Firefox Profile Sharing Between Win & Linux?
• OperaEn