 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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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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