KateOS--Getting Better with Age | Linux Today

KateOS–Getting Better with Age

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 20, 2007

“KateOS 3.6 was released a few days ago. Since KateOS has always
been one of my favorite distributions and since I haven’t looked at
it recently, I decided to take it for a test run on my HP Pavillion
laptop. It always supported the hardware on my desktop, so I was
interested to see how it would fare with wireless ethernet and
powersaving features. There are two versions available: a full 2.4
GB DVD and a 700 MB live CD. I chose the 700 MB live CD.

“The live system starts in a text boot screen and allows one to
input from a few boot cheat codes. I discovered this when my
graphics weren’t detected quite as closely as I like…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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