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NewsForge: Review: Kate OS 2.0

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“Kate is a lightweight, free GNU/Linux distribution from Poland
released with the goal of allowing people to play games, watch
movies, listen to music, and surf the Web. While it does do these
tasks, it requires a lot of handholding, manual configuration, and
knowledge on a user’s part. A single-CD install (with an optional
second CD) is all it takes to get you up and running with Kate, but
you may need to have a computer nerd handy for the setup.

“I burned both CDs before installing Kate, as I wanted the
development packages included on the second CD. Most people won’t
need this CD, but if you are interested in compiling your own
programs you should burn it to make life easier…”

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