As a little surprise there is a new Kanotix ISO during CeBIT time (I am there as visitor) with some special features not found in normal releases. The main difference is that a newer libc6 2.17 is used (from Debian Experimental) which has the effect that self-compiled binaries can not be shared with Debian Wheezy users. If that does not affect you you can enjoy the new features:
* Kernel 3.8.2 (Ubuntu 3.8.0-10 with one extra patch and SATA_AHCI static)
* Nvidia 313.18 and Fglrx 13.2 Beta 7 available in gfxdetect mode (similar to Hellfire gfxoverlay) and the autodetection works after hd install in that mode as well
* Mesa 9.1 for open source gfx drivers, best suited for Intel HD 2000+
* Amarok 2.7.0
* Wine 1.5.25
* LibreOffice 4.0.0
* Grub 2.00 (in case of UEFI boot requires primary mbr or gpt partition mounted to /boot/efi, can be shared with Win, use adv. partitioning)
* Steam preinstalled
* Iceweasel 19
The system can be used to try Steam and should work fine even from USB hd installs (create a bit ext4 partition for that). You could carry your games with you that way and the gfx driver is always correct on boot.
Download
Jörg Schirottke (Kano)
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 Hello Kanotix Community,
the first days of LinuxTag 2012 in Berlin is over. It seems to become a tradition for Kanotix to release at LinuxTag. As announced earlier in highlight report we offer an update release for Kanotix Hellfire and a preview to Kanotix Dragonfire.
Kanotix Hellfire 2012-05 is still based on Debian 6.0.5 (squeeze) and contains e.g the following package versions.
* KDE SC 4.4.5
* Iceweasel 12.0
* Icedove 3.1.16
* Pidgin 2.10.4
* Kernel 3.2.0-24 (Ubuntu recompiled)
* Libre Office 3.5.3
* Grub2 Version 1.99
* Wine 1.4
* AcritoxInstaller 0.2.25
* Gfx-overlays for Nvidia and AMD 3D graphic driver
Kanotix Dragonfire Preview 2012-05 is based on next Debian 7 (wheezy) and give you a preview to the next Kanotix major version. It contains e.g. the following packages.
* KDE SC 4.8.3 (Acritox Backports)
* Iceweasel 10.0.4 (esr)
* Icedove 10.0.4
* Pidgin 2.10.4
* Kernel 3.2.0-24 (Ubuntu recompiled)
* Libre Office 3.5.3
* Grub2 Version 1.99
* Wine 1.4
* AcritoxInstaller 0.2.25
* new added is VLC 2.0.1
Both versions support 32 and 64 bit. All images are multi-hybrid ISOs, that boot from CD or rather DVD, USB-Stick or via UEFI on PC or Intel based Macs.
creating a bootable USB medium
installation of Kanotix
In addition we offer 32 bit mini versions. Compared to the normal 32 bit version the mini version does not include the following programms: LibreOffice, wine, GIMP, SANE, Icedove, Kaffeine, Amarok, Gwenview, KDE-Update-Notifier, OpenVPN, all games and Gfx-overlay.
All in all you can choose between these ISO images:
Kanotix Hellfire 2012-05 32 bit – ISO (1,4 GB) | md5 | zsync
Kanotix Hellfire 2012-05 64 bit – ISO (1,6 GB) | md5 | zsync
Kanotix Hellfire 2012-05 2in1 (32 + 64 bit) – ISO (2,9 GB) | md5 | zsync
Kanotix Hellfire Mini 2012-05 32 bit – ISO (836 MB) | md5 | zsync
Kanotix Dragonfire Preview 2012-05 32 bit – ISO (1,1 GB) | md5 | zsync
Kanotix Dragonfire Preview 2012-05 64 bit – ISO (1,1 GB) | md5 | zsync
Kanotix Dragonfire Preview 2012-05 2in1 (32 + 64 bit) – ISO (2,2 GB) | md5 | zsync
Kanotix Dragonfire Preview Mini 2012-05 32 bit – ISO (759 MB) | md5 | zsync
Kanotix LinuxTag 2012 4in1 (Hellfire & Dragonfire 32 bit Mini + 64 bit) – ISO (4,3 GB) | md5 | zsync
The Kanotix Team thanks all contributors and hope to get a lot of feedback from the community again. Special thanks to the developers Jörg Schirottke (Kano), Andreas Loibl (Acritox) and Maximilian Gerhard (TheOne). Furthermore the Kanotix project thanks the hosting sponsor Hetzner, Thomas-Krenn.AG, all mirror servers and the Debian Project.
On behalf of the Kanotix Team
Maximilian Gerhard (TheOne)
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 The Thomas-Krenn.AG awards in cooperation with Univention and the Linuxhotel this years Open Source sponsorship first price to Kanotix. The project achieves a hardware credit over 2.500 euro.
During the LinuxTag in Berlin the project applied for the sponsoring program. An independent judging panel consisting of Peter Ganten (managing director Univention and management board member Open Source Business Alliance), Ingo Wichmann (managing director Linuxhotel), Jacqueline Rahemipour (consultant for free projects LinuxTag e.V.) and Werner Fischer (technology specialist Thomas-Krenn.AG) selected Kanotix as the winner from altogether 32 projects.
We congratulate the also winning projects x2go, GridCalendar, Coreboot and ReactOS. Congratulation.
On behalf of the entire Kanotix project I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Thomas-Krenn.AG, Univention and the Linuxhotel for their commitment of sponsoring free projects.
Maximilian Gerhard (TheOne)
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Hello Kanotix community,
the LinuxTag 2011 in Berlin started today. We are presenting the project with our own booth this year. You can visit us in hall 7.2b booth 118. Thereforce we offer an updated Kanotix Hellfire version!
Kanotix Hellfire 2011-05 based on Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). It contains the latest Debian stable branch with all the latest security updates. In addition Kanotix Hellfire provides useful extras and updated packages. This includes
* Kernel 2.6.38 final (Ubuntu - recompiled)
* KDE SC 4.4.5 with Kanotix Branding
* Amarok 2.4.0
* Libre Office 3.3.2
* Grub2 Bootmanager (Version 1.98+20100804)
* KDE Network Manager (Version 1:0.9~svn1141976)
* Iceweasel 4.0.1
* Icedove 3.1.9
* Pidgin 2.7.11
* ntfs-3g 2011.1.15
* Wine 1.3.19 (per Lucid PPA)
* Kanos scripts for installing Nvidia or ATI graphics driver, as well as Flash-Player-Plugin - more infos here in the forum
...and many more...
A brand new feature are our GFX overlays. That enables you to use Nvidia or ATI 3D graphics driver from the beginning in live mode. If you install Kanotix with enabled GFX overlays there are included in the hd installation too. You don't need to reinstall them.
You can download the new Kanotix Hellfire 2011-05 ISO images directly or via zsync.
Kanotix Hellfire 2011-05 32 bit - ISO (1.2 GB) | md5 | zsync
Kanotix Hellfire 2011-05 64 bit - ISO (1.3 GB) | md5 | zsync
Kanotix Hellfire 2011-05 2in1 (32+64 bit) - ISO (2.6 GB) | md5 | zsync
As usual all images are hybrid ISO images which can be started from DVD or USB stick.
creating a bootable USB medium
installation of Kanotix
In live mode the new Kanotix Hellfire enables users to mount partitions. You don't need to start Dolphin as root anymore. After a root password prompt the same applies to partitions within a Kanotix installation, that should not be mounted via fstab.
The Kanotix Team thanks all of you for the positive feedback for our Kanotix Hellfire release from march. We hope to get a lot of feedback from the community again. Special thanks to the developers Jörg Schirottke (Kano), Andreas Loibl (Acritox) and Maximilian Gerhard (TheOne). Furthermore the Kanotix project thanks the hosting sponsor Hetzner, all mirror servers and the Debian Project.
On behalf of the Kanotix Team
Maximilian Gerhard (TheOne)
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