KANOTIX Introduction
Speaker
Jörg Schirottke (Kano)
● Debian Live based distribution with installer ● Mainly Debian Stable packages ● Latest LibreOffice and Wine-Staging ● KDE/LXDE variants ● Nightly builds (iso.kanotix.com)
Linuxdays 05.10.2019 2 Current Team
● Jörg Schirottke (Kano) – Founder ● Holger Paradies (retabell) – Active Developer ● Gunnar Wick (besenmuckel) - Improvements ● Andreas Loibl (acritox) – Installer/Buildsystem ● Of course there were more in the past...
Linuxdays 05.10.2019 3 Timeline
● KANOTIX XMAS Preview (23.12.2003) Introduced as KNOPPIX rebuild based on Debian Unstable (sid) optimized for HD-Install ● KANOTIX 2005-03 64 bit featured on LinuxTag DVD ● Since 2007 based on Debian Stable (Thorhammer[etch]) ● Since 2010 build using Debian Live (Excalibur[lenny]) ● KANOTIX Hellfire[squeeze] 2011-05 was first ISO with binary GFX overlay (by acritox) for nvidia & fglrx
Linuxdays 05.10.2019 4 Timeline continued
● With basic UEFI support (Hellfire[squeeze]/Dragonfire Preview[wheezy]) since 2012, improved in 2013 ● KANOTIX Dragonfire Special 2013 with gfxdetect – 3d binary drivers auto-switch even after HD-Install ● Follow-up releases based on Debian Stable: Spitfire[jessie] since 2015, Steelfire[stretch] since 2017 ● Current Release: Silverfire[buster] since 2019
Linuxdays 05.10.2019 5 Why choose KANOTIX today?
● Simple way to get a preconfigured Debian Stable desktop install with selected current packages (even for 32 bit systems) ● IRC support with bot commands for many common tasks, Forum available as well ● Powerful Live image with some special features
Linuxdays 05.10.2019 6 Visit us at our booth
● You can try it by yourself ● Boot via PXE from small embedded device ● Prepare a multiboot KANOTIX USB stick ● Ask us whatever you like
Linuxdays 05.10.2019 7 Thank you for your time!
● Linuxdays ISOs including czech language you find at:
iso.kanotix.com/cz
● Questions?
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