Op het forum van Kanotix is een nieuwe versie van de op Debian gebaseerde live-cd uitgebracht. De besturingssysteem is aangekomen bij versie 2005-02 en wordt onder meer geleverd met Linux-kernel 2.6.11.7, KDE 3.4, OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 en mediaspeler Kaffeine 0.6. Deze release van Kanotix is hier vanaf een FTP-server te downloaden, BitTorrent-gebruikers kunnen op deze locatie het torrent-bestand vinden. De release notes van 2005-02 zien er als volgt uit:
Specifications:
- Kernel 2.6.11.7 with many patches
- Better compression due to Squashfs
- ACPI and DMA enabled by default (can be disabled with acpi=off and nodma respectively)
- i586 optimization - not for use with older CPUs!
- 128 MB RAM required, 256 MB RAM recommended
- New: Fixed GRUB to avoid GRUB Error 21
- New: Improved SCSI CDROM boot (with bootscsi cheat)
- New: Unionfs support (activate with unionfs cheat)
- New: NVIDIA and RADEON scripts work in live mode (like sudo install-nvidia|radeon-debian.sh)
- AVM Fritz!Card DSL support (PCI und USB)
- Fritz!Card PCI/USB CAPI support – Please use CAPI ISDN Conf!
- Speedtouch USB Support (for PPPoE/A)
- Eagle USB DSL Support (i. e.. AT-AR215)
- New: KDE 3.4.0
- New: Kaffeine 0.6 with DVB support
- OpenOffice 1.1.3 (Debian version)
- GRUB boot loader for CD start - ideal for rescue in command line mode
- Memtest86+ Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool in the extra menu of the boot loader
- ALSA 1.08 support -> works live and after hd installation
- AMD64/Centrino/P4 Mobile/Athlon XP Mobile detection with automated start of Powernowd
- ALPS and Synaptic touchpad detection
- Hibernate support when using swapfile with min. size of 1.5x RAM size (can be activated by get-resume-partition.sh after hd install)
- NTFS support for Poor Man Install
- fromiso=PATH/TO/KANOTIX*.iso cheatcode für PMI, good to use in combination with fromhd=/dev/hdXY (
- is supported!)
- No kernel source is needed anymore to compile NVIDIA, ATI and many other kernel modules
- Captive can download the needed drivers from the net