kanotix.acritox.com

I've updated my KDE 4.8 backport for Debian wheezy to KDE 4.8.3 - as usual it contains amd64 and i386 packages and it's now based on the Kubuntu quantal KDE-packages.

Another addition to the Kanotix Dragonfire repository is XBMC with PVR, its xvdr-addon and vdr-plugin-xvdr:

apt-get install xbmc xbmc-addon-xvdr vdr-plugin-xvdr

• Kanotix Dragonfire: Debian Wheezy + KDE 4.8.1 (own backports)
• Kernel 3.2.0-24.38kanotix1
• without gfxoverlays
• Multi-Hybrid-ISO with GRUB2 as bootloader and extended isohybrid-acritox features:
  • boots from/with DVD, USB, UEFI (PCs, Intel Macs)
  • new GRUB2 version (1.99-21acritox1)
  • USB-Stick with Hybrid-ISO can be made persistent from the live-system
  • embedded USB-Stick ImageWriter for Mac OS X
  • Kernel has "EFI stub" enabled
• AcritoxInstaller 0.2.25
• LibreOffice 3.5

• Kanotix Dragonfire: Debian Wheezy + KDE 4.8.1 (own backports)
• Kernel 3.2.0-24.38kanotix1
• without gfxoverlays
• Multi-Hybrid-ISO with GRUB2 as bootloader and extended isohybrid-acritox features:
  • boots from/with DVD, USB and 32bit UEFI systems
  • new GRUB2 version (1.99-21acritox1)
  • USB-Stick with Hybrid-ISO can be made persistent from the live-system
  • embedded USB-Stick ImageWriter for Mac OS X
  • Kernel has "EFI stub" enabled
• AcritoxInstaller 0.2.25
• LibreOffice 3.5

• Kanotix Dragonfire: Debian Wheezy + KDE 4.8.1 (own backports)
• Kernel 3.2.0-18.29kanotix1
• Multi-Hybrid-ISO with GRUB2 as bootloader and extended isohybrid-acritox features:
  • boots from/with DVD, USB, UEFI (PCs, Intel Macs)
  • changes on the boot-core of isohybrid-acritox - if you had difficulties booting my previous TrialShot-Images (or Hybrid-ISOs in general) please try again with this Image (and tell me if it got better or worse)
  • new GRUB2 version (1.99-17acritox1)
  • USB-Stick with Hybrid-ISO can be made persistent from the live-system
  • embedded USB-Stick ImageWriter for Mac OS X: lowered the "Deployment Target" to 10.4, maybe it works with older Mac OS X versions now
• integrated gfxoverlays (nvidia 295.20 + 173.14.31 + 96.43.20 and fglrx 11-11 [fglrx is probably broken, I don't have any hardware to test it])
• AcritoxInstaller 0.2.24
• LibreOffice 3.5

I've added a repository for the Kanotix release based on Debian wheezy, Codename "Dragonfire", and backported KDE4.8 there:

sources.list entry

# Kanotix Dragonfire (with KDE4.8-wheezy-backport by acritox)
deb http://kanotix.acritox.com/debian dragonfire main kde-backport
deb-src http://kanotix.acritox.com/debian dragonfire main kde-backport

Note: I just tried out building an image with some new stuff: live-build 3, wheezy, KDE 4.8, ... - it's not tested and not intended to be actually used or installed, so do not expect any further support or updates for this ISO...

• Hybrid-ISO with GRUB2 as bootloader (Note: embedded GRUB2EFI is x64, but this is a 32bit ISO, so it probably won't boot with EFI... hybrid-USB-stick live-partitioning should work though it's broken)
• Kernel 3.2.0-1-686-pae (+ndiswrapper 1.57 [dkms])
• Debian Wheezy + Zevenos-Neptune Repository (KDE 4.8)
• AcritoxInstaller 0.2.24
• LibreOffice 3.5
• built with live-build 3

This video (bad quality, shot with mobile-phone) shows two things:

1. How to boot a Mac with a Kanotix Live-USB-Stick (if you do not have a Kanotix Live-USB-Stick yet then check out Hybrid-ISO with embedded USB-Stick ImageWriter if you are running Mac OS X, or Live USB Stick for other systems)
2. How to make a running Kanotix Live-USB-Stick persistent, i.e. all your changes on the live-system will be saved to the stick and will stay persistent if you reboot or plug the stick into another system. This is of course independent of the "booting on a Mac"-stuff and works the same way on all other supported systems)

• integrated gfxoverlays (nvidia 295.20 + 173.14.31 + 96.43.20 and fglrx 11-11)
• GRUB2-bootloader live + "Disable cache for huge files"-patch
• Bootable via GRUB2-EFI (live, included in ISO9660)
• All-in-One hybrid-ISO for PC (GRUB2 in MBR and El Torito), EFI-PC (GRUB2-EFI on FAT partition and ISO9660) and Mac (GRUB2-EFI on hidden Apple-Partition-Map/HFS+ partition): ISO can be booted both from DVD and USB-stick; non-HFS EFI-partitions are now hidden from the Mac OS Bootloader
• hybrid-ISO feature: USB-stick with hybrid-ISO can be made persistent from the live-system
• Kernel 3.2.0-17.27kanotix1 (+aufs3 +ndiswrapper 1.57), linux-firmware 1.71
• Debian Squeeze backports enabled
• Iceweasel 10.0 + german l10n
• AcritoxInstaller 0.2.24
• LibreOffice 3.5

Some MacBooks have Broadcom Wireless which needs unfree firmware to work (which cannot be included by default). Therefore the latest kanotix64-TrialShot Hybrid-ISOs allow you to put a b43-firmware-file onto the FAT-partition of the Stick. Because FAT is also supported by Mac OS X and Windows this is quite easy...