Distro#15 Kwort Linux 2.4.1.1

The CD image is less than 500MB. After booting from CD, choosing keyboard layout, and partitioning, then selecting swap and root file system locations. As of formatting, ext2/ext3/ext4 are the options, I chose ext4. After that, I made a sound “ah!!” because the GRUB in Fedora is still not supporting booting disk. In this partition table, I don't have /boot, therefore GRUB stays in root file system. I can only cross my fingers. Now the files is getting installed.

The architecture of Kwort Linux is i486. Kernel is 2.6.28.7. Kwort is Slackware-based and uses Xfce. The version of Kwort is 2.4.1.1.

After 7 minutes, installer asked about boot loader, LILO. I chose simple installation of LILO and use of frame buffer console.

After installation is done, it boots, and there are more settings, such Xorg settings. Here I chose to boot into graphical login. Then I logged in as root and created new user, and reboot.

It booted into SLiM, took less than a minute. After logging in, I launched the Settings from Xfce menu, then the Kwort Network Manager. For eth0, there is a special tab PPPoE, I set my account and chose the connection type ADSL from Basic tab. But it didn't work. So, I went to the irc.oftc.net#Kwort and asked. The package for PPPoE, rp-pppoe, was missed in CD image. The people on IRC room are very kind to help me.

As of writing, you need to wait for next release, 2.4.2, if you need PPPoE. They have built the package for me. There is also a bug in Kwort Network Manager's script, it will be fixed in 2.4.2 as well.

While chatting with the developers, they keep simplicity as the philosophy. Kwort is actually 7 years old, the developers were trying to learn from it, then it became a hobby. They want to bring developers and normal users closer. You can easily get in touch with dev-team via Google Group or IRC.

Lastly, the screenshot

Distro#6 Caos Linux NSA 1.0

I thought I wouldn't try any distro for server usage. But it's been for a while no new releases. So I decided to give this Caos Linux a try. It provides i386 or x86_64 architectures in CD image. I entered autoinstall to boot. It started at 0700 and 0703 to reboot.

Well, that is stage 1. Next is to customize the system. In System Profile (aka. package group) choosing dialog, I picked up GUI and GL. Just a few second, installer told me a sidekick, then the login screen. The resolution is 800x600.

The DE is XFCE. There is a dock. Now I need to find out how to set up PPPoE, but I couldn't find anything. There is a link to the Caos Linux Wiki, honestly, that's really hard to see. However, I still can't find any information about PPPoE on that wiki. Now I set up my laptop as router.

Since PPPoE configuration hidden from me, I decided to install official nVidia driver. I booted into runlevel 3 and installed quite well. After rebooted, I got "out of range" but still can see the desktop. I added "1680x1050" mode to the configuration file and that made it worked.

I think the PPPoE thing is probably the only disadvantage. Every thing else is running smoothly or being sorted out easily. Super-fast installation, I think that takes less than 10-15 minutes. Although this distro is primarily for server usage, but desktop should be fine, too. Lastly, a screenshot:

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