We all know about the kitchen-sink Linux distro¬Knoppix. It includes a lot of software and that becomes a disadvantage, because the software we don't use, accumulates as bloat. Useful though it may be, Knoppix is enormously unwieldy. To address this problem, Kanotix was created. The Kanotix team took Knoppix apart, removed more than 80 per cent of the software, and repackaged it in a home-user friendly package. Kanotix was a jewel at one time. It gave us the power of Knoppix, yet made it usable for the novices.

Name: Parsix GNU.jpg Views: 22 Size: 5.5 KB

But Kanotix died an untimely death. Lack of community support and the lack of time for its author were the main causes. But the structure of Kanotix was so rigid and robust that some guys from Iran got together and took up the mammoth task of updating Kanotix regularly. Finally, they gave a new name to this distro-Parsix.