Discontinued
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kate
was kateos.org
- Custom + Xfce wm
- LiveCD
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Very nice, but rough around the edges – doesn’t detect my video well. v4 of this distro looks very promising!
2009-03 – 3.6 ∞
- Polish-based distro.
- Looks very active and very good.
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Several subdistro options.
Originally based on Slackware but it has since become its own distribution.
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It gives a fair resolution. It’s a bit annoying to get to the display settings panel. Then it doesn’t give a complete list of what my card can do. Even when I select other resolutions I see some serious issues and artifacts.
- There doesn’t seem to be any documentation on changing resolution
- Has an old version of Firefox (v2, when v3 is out)
- The package manager has no descriptions until you actually download and install something! WHAT?! This applies to the updater too. This is a deal-breaker unless they keep descriptions on their wiki or something.
- If you typo a root password, you are not allowed to retry it.
- Should have volume control on the taskbar by default. It’s simple to add though, and worked great.
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XChat should have a default connection to
#kateos.- Maybe even make an icon on the desktop?
- On that note, make icons to go to the other community places.
- My computer froze when using the regular menu’s ‘restart’ function. I just got a black screen and no disk activity. Boo.
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This distro introduced me to graveman. Sweet.
