Welcome to Kanotix!

Kanotix is a rock-solid Linux based on Debian, which contains the newest packages and recognizes more modern hardware than any other operating system in use today.

Kanotix is assembled for 32 Bit i586 and for AMD 64 using the most up-to-date kernel with unique patches.

Kanotix will run as a LIVE-CD on practically any computer -- automatically detecting and configuring virtually any piece of hardware. It is ideal for analysis, data rescue, forensic work, removal of viruses on Win-PCs - or simply for safe surfing and mailing in an internet cafe. It installs to your hard drive in just a few minutes and is ideal for use on your desktop workstation or notebook, or as a server.

Have fun with Kanotix!

KANOTIX-Slowfire ISO 2024

Posted by : besenmuckel on Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 01:02 AM

Hello Kanoten...

for Easter 2024 there were new Kanotix Slowfire Isos based on Debian 12 (Bookworm)
All versions are available for 32 and 64 bit and can also be found in the Downloads Section.

Specification:

* Kernel 6.6.13-1~bpo12+1
* Libre Office 24.2.2.2-2(only in the 64 bit versions)

and:

* compiz(all iso with LXDE, start without compiz with cheatcode nocompiz)
* acritoxinstaller(recommended!)
* git(default)

Test:

* wayland(only in the 64 bit versions KDE since April 07, 2024, X11 default)
* calamares installer
* refind(all versions with 64 bit)

amd64 Iso ship with acritoxinstaller(recommended) and calamares installer(for testing) refind is preinstalled using grub in acritoxinstaller is recommended. you can enable refind later in installation with # refind-install

All in all you can choose between these ISO images:

kanotix64-slowfire-nightly-KDE 64 bit - ISO (2,7GB) | md5

kanotix64-slowfire-nightly-LXDE 64 bit - ISO (2,3GB) | md5

kanotix32-slowfire-nightly-eeepc4G 32 bit - ISO (876MB) | md5

kanotix32-slowfire-nightly-KDE 32 bit - ISO (2,2GB) | md5

kanotix32-slowfire-nightly-LXDE 32 bit - ISO (1,7GB) | md5

Note: Links adjusted to https

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LinuxDaysCZ 2019

Posted by : retabell on Saturday, October 05, 2019 - 09:37 AM

This year we are present with a booth at LinuxDaysCZ at Prague. There are new iso-images with support for CZ, you can find them at the Download Section.

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New Server

Posted by : retabell on Sunday, September 02, 2018 - 09:14 AM

Our old server is gone now.
Only a rescue page was shown for some days.

Thanks to our sponsor Hetzner we migrated everything to a new one.

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Kanotix at OpenRheinRuhr 2015

Posted by : retabell on Monday, November 09, 2015 - 08:10 PM

From 07 .11.2015 to 08.11.2015 Kanotix was present at Oberhausen . We have presented latest Kanotix modification - the version numbers are taken from today's snapshot. Last year Jahr we had a presentation at LinuxTag 2014 in Berlin, but this year there wasn 't any exhibition there.

The latest Kanotix-version is based on Debian 8.2/Jessie called Spitfire, the older version Dragonfire (Debian 7.x also exist in several flavours for i386 and amd64.

- Kanotix Spitfire KDE with kernel 3.16 (Debian default), KDE 4.14.2, VLC 2.2.0 RC2, LibreOffice 5.0.3, Iceweasel 42.0, Wine-Staging 1.7.54

- Kanotix Spitfire KDE Special with kernel 4.2 (Ubuntu 4.2.17-21), Nvidia 340.93 (DX10 cards) and 352.55 (DX11 cards), AMD Catalyst 15.9 and Mesa 11.0.4 (best for Intel Skylake/Broadwell/Haswell - but without OpenGL 4 for nouveau/radeon). Steam Client, XBMC 13.2, VirtualBox 5.0.8, Google Chrome 46.0 are also installed. Binary driver are only activated with gfxdetect. This also works in hd-installations, so you can change your graphic-card. (Mesa forcen über gfx=mesa)! also cool if have a USB HD-install.

- Kanotix Spitfire LXDE with kernel 3.16 (Debian default) and compiz, LibreOffice 5.0.3 and Wine-Staging only 64 bit

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Thomas-Krenn.AG Open Source sponsorship 2013

Posted by : TheOne on Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 01:31 AM

The Thomas-Krenn.AG awards this year's Open Source sponsorship fifth price to Kanotix. The project achieves a hardware credit over 700 euro.

After Kanotix's successful first participation in the Open Source sponsorship program by Thomas-Krenn.AG during the LinuxTag 2011, I decided to fill a new application while LinuxTag 2013. Thomas-Krenn.AG in cooperation with Linuxhotel, NETWAYS and Univention chose Kanotix as one of many projects for this year's sponsorship.

In total the server manufacturer from Freyung supports Open Source projects with hardware credits over 6,500 euro. This year's first price of 2,500 euro goes to the project Skolelinux-DebianEdu. Other projects are CMS-Garden (1,500 euro), Rechenkraft.net (1,000 euro) and BeLUG (800 euro). Congratulations.

On behalf of the entire Kanotix project I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Thomas-Krenn.AG, Linuxhotel, NETWAYS and Univention for their commitment of sponsoring free projects.

Maximilian Gerhard (TheOne)

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