Kanotix worth a look
It’s a cold wet and miserable Saturday; good weather for reading and experimenting on computers. I couldn’t hold myself back from testing Kanotix, despite being very happy with its Debian cousin Mepis.
I decided not to install it on the hard drive of my spare computer. I don’t have an ethernet card on that one and I’m hooked now on broadband. Anything lesser is like walking back into the 15th century.
So I’m using the live Kanotix CD with a 2000MB persistent home directory. I downloaded and installed the 1.05 versions of Firefox and Thunderbird into the home directory.
Everything works a treat. The look and feel is neat, and it seems to be faster and less clunky than Knoppix. Linux is a diverse world of personal preferences, with each to their own.
I’ll stick with Mepis for everyday use, but I can’t find fault with Kanotix as a live CD and I’m sure it’s hard drive performance is also very good. It’s entirely free as well.
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Kanotix is simply the best Linux distro available today (from my opinion). Been using it as my dedicated OS for over a year now. Nothing I’ve tried has been able to beat my cutting edge Kanotix desktop.
Thanks for blogging about it.