Welcome to Kanotix!

for Towel Day there were new Kanotix Towelfire ISOs based on Debian 13 (Trixie, preview for the upcoming stable version) Readme
All versions are offered for 64 bit and only one with 32 bit, can also be found in the Downloads menu.

Specification:

* Kernel 6.12.27 (only in the 64 bit versions)
* Kernel from bookworm (only in the 32 bit versions)
* Libre Office 25.2.3.2-2 (only in the 64 bit versions)

and:

* compiz (all iso with LXDE, start without compiz with cheatcode nocompiz)
* wayland (only in the 64 bit versions KDE, X11 default, also with cheatcode kwayland)
* acritoxinstaller (recommended)
* calamares installer (test)
* refind (all versions with 64 bit)
* git (default)

New:

* KDE version only (display manager = SDDM, background image of rueX)
* qt6
* hstr (default)

* wayland (only in the 64 bit versions KDE, X11 default, also with cheatcode kwayland)
* calamares installer (test)
* 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-towelfire-nightly-KDE 64 bit - ISO (3,1GB) | md5

kanotix64-towelfire-nightly-LXDE 64 bit - ISO (2,7GB) | md5

kanotix32-towelfire-nightly-eeepc4G 32 bit - ISO (938MB) | md5

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

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

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