Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 15, 2006 04:25 AM
I've been trying various linux distributions over the years, waiting for one that just felt right. And that really worked. And that was fast, with support for all the latest and greatest features. And that's not dependent on a commercial product like SUSE or Redhat based distros.
I had some requirements I'd developed after seeing commercial distro after distro fail or vanish, and smaller non-commercial distros too.
First is direct connection to a major free open source distribution. This basically means it's either debian, slackware, or gentoo derived.
Not forked in anyway, even subtly, like ubuntu.
Everything needed to work, although I'm happy spending time to achieve that 'everything works', some stuff takes more work than other stuff. But I need to feel that the time I spend learning how to get eveyrthing the way I want it is not wasted or lost. So far debian/kanotix has passed this test with flying colors.
Kanotix is the first distro I've used that met every test. The 2005-4 release took care of some small issues that had kept me from switching permanently to it.
Kano is an excellent developer, everything that was too hard for me to deal with on straight debian is now fairly easy.
Kanotix is both an excellent standalone distribution, as well as a great halfway point to full debian.
Finally, free software that really delivers. I'm not a newbie, but I'm not a linux guru either, and that's I think the exact group that might want to check out kanotix for themselves. Although most users will find that kanotix installs with almost no issues, out of the box debian, no problems, but with easy access to some non-free stuff like nvidia and radeon driver installtion.
This is easily the best distro for my needs I've ever used. That's not taking anything away from the great work of slackware or gentoo distros, but if you want debian, check out kanotix.
I now have basically switched completey from windows. And I'm running the latest sid unstable with the latest kernel.
Thanks to the kanotix team for that, they continue to do fantastic work.
Remember, kanotix is currently a german focused distro, but all the developers have no problems with english, so that's not an issue.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 15, 2006 04:25 AMI had some requirements I'd developed after seeing commercial distro after distro fail or vanish, and smaller non-commercial distros too.
First is direct connection to a major free open source distribution. This basically means it's either debian, slackware, or gentoo derived.
Not forked in anyway, even subtly, like ubuntu.
Everything needed to work, although I'm happy spending time to achieve that 'everything works', some stuff takes more work than other stuff. But I need to feel that the time I spend learning how to get eveyrthing the way I want it is not wasted or lost. So far debian/kanotix has passed this test with flying colors.
Kanotix is the first distro I've used that met every test. The 2005-4 release took care of some small issues that had kept me from switching permanently to it.
Kano is an excellent developer, everything that was too hard for me to deal with on straight debian is now fairly easy.
Kanotix is both an excellent standalone distribution, as well as a great halfway point to full debian.
Finally, free software that really delivers. I'm not a newbie, but I'm not a linux guru either, and that's I think the exact group that might want to check out kanotix for themselves. Although most users will find that kanotix installs with almost no issues, out of the box debian, no problems, but with easy access to some non-free stuff like nvidia and radeon driver installtion.
This is easily the best distro for my needs I've ever used. That's not taking anything away from the great work of slackware or gentoo distros, but if you want debian, check out kanotix.
I now have basically switched completey from windows. And I'm running the latest sid unstable with the latest kernel.
Thanks to the kanotix team for that, they continue to do fantastic work.
Remember, kanotix is currently a german focused distro, but all the developers have no problems with english, so that's not an issue.
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