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Linux+ Live was a live DVD based on Aurox Linux. It was developed by the publishers of the Linux+ magazine in Warsaw, Poland.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2006-07-21 |
NEW • Development Release: Kate OS 3.0 Beta (Live) |
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A live CD edition of Kate OS 3.0 Beta is now available for download and testing: "KateOS LIVE 3.0beta is now available. This version includes most of desktop applications and features Xfce as the graphical environment. It should be especially interesting for those who would like to help us in testing but do not have enough disk space. The LIVE edition is a complete operating system with automatic hardware detection and auto-mount of all accessible partitions which will let you begin a fully effective work in just a few minutes." Find more on the project's home page. Download: KateOS_3.0beta-LIVE.iso (698MB, MD5).
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| About KateOS
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| KateOS is an independently developed light-weight Linux distribution. Some of its concepts were derived from Slackware Linux.
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| 2007-09-17 |
Distribution Release: KateOS 3.6 |
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KateOS 3.6 has been released: "The final version of KateOS 3.6 is now available. This new version contains hundreds of updated packages, lots of bugfixes, and many improved solutions. The most important new features in KateOS 3.6 are: software-driven system hibernation; a GUI installer (included in the LIVE edition); a new version of update-notifier; new start-up scripts which are accessible via the service command; better support for HP printers (via hplip); internationalization support in the whole system (using gettext); new French translation of the CORE installer and many system components; a new GUI network configuration tool; simplified CORE installer; several new packages such as Audacious and Pidgin; initrd has been replaced with initramfs." Visit the project's home page to read the full release announcement. Download: KateOS_3.6-LIVE.iso (698MB, MD5, torrent), KateOS_3.6-DVD.iso (2,340MB, MD5, torrent).
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| 2007-06-18 |
Development Release: KateOS 3.6 Beta 2 |
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The second beta of KateOS 3.6 has been released: "The second beta of KateOS 3.6 is now available. It contains many changes, both important and purely cosmetic ones, such as: new update notifier; new 2.6.21.4 kernel; X.Org 7.2; the newest versions of KDE 3.5.7, GNOME 2.18.2 and Xfce 4.4.1, OpenOffice.org 2.2.0, and many more. The CORE edition also includes a partial French translation of the installer. The second beta also has a lot of bugs eliminated (including some in the KateOS LIVE installer). Everyone is invited to test and share the experience on the KateOS project forum." Visit the project's home page to read the full release announcement. Download the live CD or installation DVD from here: KateOS_3.6beta2-LIVE.iso (673MB, MD5), Kate_OS_3.6beta2/KateOS_3.6beta2-DVD.iso (2,341MB, MD5).
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| 2007-04-21 |
Development Release: KateOS 3.6 Beta |
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The first beta release of KateOS 3.6 is ready for testing: "KateOS 3.6 beta is out! It is enough to look at the version number to see that we have made quite a progress since the last release. We have improved the boot scripts, the package scripts and the way the packages are internationalized. With 3.6 you have better control over system services, and a simplified installation. Also, Software Suspend 2 - the system hibernator - is now supported by default. KateOS 3.6beta contains the following, among other things: kernel 2.6.19.3, glibc 2.5, X.Org 7.2, Xfce 4.4.1, GNOME 2.18.1, KDE 3.5.6, OpenOffice.org 2.2." Visit the project's home page to read the full release announcement. The product is available in the form of an installable live CD: KateOS_3.6beta-LIVE.iso (683MB, MD5), or an installation DVD (torrent): KateOS_3.6beta-DVD.iso (2,280MB).
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| 2007-02-12 |
Development Release: KateOS 3.2 LIVE Beta |
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The KateOS project has announced the first beta release of the LIVE edition of KateOS 3.2 - now with a graphical system installer: "KateOS LIVE 3.2 beta is out! This edition contains a graphical installer allowing a full system install in just a few clicks. We hope it will encourage new and/or inexperienced users to try KateOS, who had been frightened away by too many options in the standard installer. The LIVE version is the easiest possible way to install KateOS, and a cunning method to try it out without touching your hard drives. However, it should be remembered that KateOS LIVE does not contain all the packages available in the CORE edition." Visit the distribution's home page to read the full release announcement. Download: KateOS_3.2beta-LIVE.iso (701MB, MD5); also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2006-12-21 |
Distribution Release: Kate OS 3.2 |
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Kate OS 3.2 has been released: "Kate OS 3.2 is the third edition of the III series. It brings, as usual, many fixes, updates, and novelties the community has been waiting for. It includes a new graphical package management tool, KatePKG, which allows for easy and intuitive installation, removal, and updating of packages. KatePKG can handle any number of repositories, including user-created ones on the local drive. KatePKG was written in PHP using the PHP-GTK2 library. Kate OS 3.2 uses glibc library 2.5 which ensures binary compatibility with future editions. It also includes the Xfce environment version 4.4RC2, GNOME 2.16.2, KDE 3.5.5, OpenOffice.org 2.0.4, Firefox 2.0, and many other current applications." Read the rest of the release announcement on the project's home page. Download: KateOS_3.2-DVD.iso (2,199MB, MD5). The CD images are also available for download via BitTorrent.
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| 2006-10-07 |
Distribution Release: Kate OS 3.1 |
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Kate OS 3.1 has been released: "Kate OS 3.1 is the second edition of the III series. It fixes many bugs, but also introduces many important changes. Kate OS 3.1 is the first Kate to use the GTK+ 2.10.x library. This is a very substantial change for the entire system, which will let us deliver various new applications. Also, the GNOME desktop environment has been updated to its newest 2.16.0 version. This is the first edition of GNOME especially adjusted to Kate OS. Apart from those, Kate OS 3.1 also features the 2.6.17.13 kernel, XFce 4.4rc1 and numerous updates. An interesting novelty is Update-notifier, a task bar applet designed for Kate OS which automatically checks for available updates, and allows for easy package selection and update." Please visit the project's home page to read the release announcement. Download: KateOS_3.1-DVD.iso (2,109MB, MD5).
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| 2006-09-04 |
Distribution Release: Kate OS 3.0 LIVE |
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A live CD edition of Kate OS 3.0 has been released: "Kate OS 3.0 LIVE is the newest version of our distribution which boots directly from the CD. It is a great demonstration of our system's possibilities. It can also come very handy when trying to rescue another system. The CD contains 2GB of compressed data, including the XFce environment with multimedia and office applications. Also available are system and partition rescue tools, GParted (partitioning tool) and ClamAV, an antivirus scanner. All these tools are priceless during a data rescue session after a system crash." Visit the distribution's home page to read the full release announcement. Download: KateOS_3.0-LIVE.iso (687MB, MD5).
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| 2006-08-17 |
Distribution Release: Kate OS 3.0 |
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The KateOS project has announced the availability of KateOS 3.0. Although the new version was released over a week ago, it was only announced yesterday due to earlier problems with the project's web site: "After seven months of hard work, KateOS 3.0 is now ready! This version starts a new series which will be supported for at least a year. It is also a jubilee version: the project, originally known as Kate Linux, was founded circa three years ago, near the end of 2003." Read the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download: KateOS_3.0-DVD.iso (2,041MB, MD5).
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| 2006-07-15 |
Development Release: Kate OS 3.0 Beta 1 |
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The first beta release of Kate OS 3.0 is now available for download and testing: "Today the beta version of Kate OS 3.0 was publicly released. It contains a completely rewritten TGZex package management system, which will certainly satisfy every user of our distribution. Inside the Kate OS project, three subprojects have been created - libsmarttools (basic classes/functions used in updateos2 ), libupdateos (provides simple API for remote operations on TGZex packages), and updateos2 (CLI interface for libupdateos)." Read the full release announcement on the project's home page. Download: KateOS_3.0beta1-CD1.iso (687MB, MD5) and KateOS_3.0beta1-CD2.iso (618MB, MD5).
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| 2006-06-25 |
Development Release: Kate OS 3.0 Alpha (Live) |
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A live CD edition of Kate OS 3.0 Alpha has been released: "Live edition of Kate OS 3.0 alpha is available now. This is a test version aimed at people interested in development branch of Kate OS. The live edition contains 2.2 GB of data, compressed on a single CD. The system automatically detects hardware, mounts system partitions and enables the user to write directly to NTFS file systems. This is a wonderful demo of Kate OS possibilities, helpful during some rescue operations. The system contains among other things: X.Org 7.1, glibc 2.4, GCC 4.0.2, Apache 2.2, Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5.0.4, XFce 4.3.90.2." Visit the project's home page to read the full release announcement. Download: KateOS_3.0alpha-LIVE.iso (678MB, MD5).
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| 2006-06-06 |
Development Release: Kate OS 3.0 Alpha 1 |
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The first alpha release of the desktop-oriented Kate OS 3.0 is out: "An alpha version of Kate OS 3.0 is available. This release supplies a better support for IRDE and Bluetooth technologies. It contains almost all target packages except for additional plugins for the XFce environment. Apart from two standard installation CDs, GNOME (2.14.2) and KDE (3.5.2) extension modules are also available." Kate OS 3.0 is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.16.19 and includes X.Org 7.1, glibc 2.4, GCC 4.0.2, Apache 2.2.2, Firefox 1.5.0.4, XFce 4.3.90 and other up-to-date software. Read the full release announcement on the distribution's home page. Download: KateOS_3.0alpha1-CD1.iso (680MB, MD5), KateOS_3.0alpha1-CD2.iso (412MB, MD5).
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| 2005-12-07 |
Distribution Release: Kate OS 2.3 |
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The Kate OS distribution has been updated to version 2.3: "We are proud to present the newest milestone release of Kate OS II series. Kate OS 2.3 brings 2.6.14.2 kernel with Reiser4 support, the newest glibc library, XFce 4.2.3.2 desktop environment and many other applications in current versions. We have modified system boot scripts so they present the boot sequence in a clear way. Another new addition in Kate OS is a hardware detection tool 'discovery', which detects and configures system hardware. ... Additionally, the DVD edition contains GNOME 2.12.1 and KDE 3.4.3 (optimized for i686 class processors)." Read the complete release announcement on the project's home page. Download: Kate_OS_2.3-CD1.iso (696MB, MD5) and Kate_OS_2.3-CD2.iso (262MB, MD5).
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| 2005-10-13 |
Distribution Releases: Kate OS 2.2 |
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A new version of Kate OS has been released: "Kate OS 2.2 released! Kate OS 2.2 has many up-to-date packages which were available earlier in the repository. The new version is using Linux kernel 2.6.13 with Reiser4 filesystem support. With the kernel update, Kate OS now supports more hardware, so users shouldn't have any problems with their ethernet adapters. Our system also has a new version of GCC compiler series 3.3.x and GTK+ library 2.8.3. The distribution was designed to use the GNOME 2.12 desktop environment which will be available in the repository soon. There are also changes in installer which helps to configure the system." See the full release announcement on the project's home page. Download: Kate_OS_2.2-CD1.iso (688MB, MD5) and Kate_OS_2.2-CD2.iso (258MB, MD5). Kate OS is a Slackware-inspired light-weight Linux distribution featuring the XFce desktop.
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| 2005-07-15 |
Distribution Release: Kate OS 2.1 LIVE |
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The Kate OS project has released a live CD based on their Kate OS Linux distribution: "It's our pleasure to present you with the newest Kate OS LIVE edition! The LIVE edition is not only a demonstration of Kate OS capabilities and usefulness, it's also a marvellous distribution for travellers. We have applied an innovative Unionfs pseudo filesystem, due to which every configurable system element can be saved. The changes made to the filesystem can be stored on hard disk or any other data carrier, so as to restore the previous configuration." Read the rest of the release announcement on the project's home page. Download: Kate_OS_LIVE_2.1.iso (665MB, MD5). This is a good-looking live CD worth the download.
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| 2005-06-23 |
Distribution Release: Kate OS 2.1 |
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A new version of Kate OS has been released: "Kate OS 2.1 released! The new version of our system contains NPTL, which increases the efficiency in critical moments. We've added some improvements, such as support of Reiser 4 filesystem. Kate OS 2.1 has been carefully tested, so many bugs from the previous versions have been fixed. We updated many packages, including the XFce environment. In the latest release you can find the improved version of 'updateos' tool, which is now able to show the progress of the actualisation and download speed. Kate OS 2.1 is definitely the best version of that system and is recommended to everyone, who wants to begin his experience with our product." Read the rest of the release announcement on the project's home page. Download: Kate_OS_CD1_2.1.iso (691MB, MD5) and Kate_OS_CD2_2.1.iso (699MB, MD5).
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| 2005-05-23 |
Distribution Release: Kate OS 2.01 |
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The developers of Kate OS have released an updated version of their distribution: "Kate 2.01 contains many fixes and updates in comparison to Kate 2.0. The installation on SATA hard drives does not make a problem any more. A possibility to choose localization in Polish and German languages has been added. Kate OS contains updated versions of the XFce environment and ppp package, which now includes ATM support created to simplify the installation of 'Neostrada' on some modems. New version of system has been supplied with kpmtool (Kate OS Package Manager) which enables package management in graphical environment. From version 2.01, Kate OS supports remote system actualization." Read more in the release announcement on the project's home page. Download: Kate_OS_CD1_2.01.iso (669MB, MD5) and Kate_OS_CD2_2.01.iso (700MB, MD5).
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