"Klax" KDE 3.4 Beta 2 Live-CD

I have long time not blogged but now that KDE 3.4 Beta 2 code-named "Keinstein" (blame me for the name) was released this week and with it the feature and i18n freezes in place this might change. :-) Also this week Slackware 10.1 became available. A small hobby of me is to test distributions (see history). My first Linux distribution was Slackware 2.0 as book appendix, which I quickly had to replace with Walnut Creek Slackware 3.0 CDROMs because I needed ELF support. Since then I didn't use Slackware anymore, so it was time to revisit.

Playing with Slackware reminded me of my previous Slax testing, especially the size of its ISO image. So I got the idea to produce a KDE 3.4 Beta 2 Live-CD based on it (always something new, my last remastered Live-CD was Knoppix based). Unfortunately I couldn't complete it within 2,5 days until the KDE 3.4 Beta 2 release because this time no Slackware binary packages were contributed before the announcement. Also it showed that Slackware is missing many dependencies of KDE as packages which I had to build additionally myself. But today I brought it to an end and am now happy to announce the birthday of Klax. The birth weight is 373 MB and it's looking proper. :-)

I know that it works on two of my computers. It would be nice to have some feedback before making more buzz about it.