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.

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