Every OS has it's purpose, it's audience, and either does good enough for that purpose or audience.

I hate marketing speach - but you called for it:

1) KANOTIX detects and enables you to instantly use more different pieces of hardware than any other operating system today (including other Linuxes), without the need for searching for drivers from hardware vendors' web sites or complicated installation routines. Everything comes ready on a fast live-CD, and can be installed to your hard drive just in a couple of minutes.

2) KANOTIX gives you direct and 100% compatible access to the world biggest repository of software packages (more than 17.000 at the moment in Debian Sid), all of them free and open source, many of them in professional quality. No virus, no trojan - and again no complicate searching hundreds of web site for an application, and running dubious installers.

3) KANOTIX is free and open source and comes with free & priceless 24/7 support via this forum and chat (the IRC). Our support staff is friendly, helpful and very highly skilled - some of them are developers of this operating system themselves.

4) KANOTIX is not corporate driven, but community driven. Other might talk about humanity, but actually feeding a corporation - we are a community of volunteers who share a common goal - building the perfect operating system.

5) KANOTIX is extremely flexible and offers a bulk load of ready made scripts and meta-packages. You may use them to mutate it into a secure server system, a high class music studio, a professional graphics design workstation, a corporate desktop - or whatever you need.

6) KANOTIX is always bleeding edge technology, packed in a tested and stable combination ready for use. It moves very fast, and will bring to you the hippest and most interesting developments first. Recent examples are a digital VDR (Video Disk Recorder) or the 3D-Desktop "Beryl". KANOTIX is also one of the few operating systems where you can get a 64bit system with real 64bit compiled applications - and again the 100% compatible access to Debian Sid.

7) KANOTIX is multilingual - people from all over the world meet here and talk in their native, but also secondary languages. We believe in the power of shared and open communication and therefore don't split the community by countries or languages, but concentrate them. Many people here speak several languages and are using them when helping you.

There is definitely much more to say - those are just the first one coming in my mind. Please add whatever you find fitting, we might use parts of this text for marketing KANOTIX in the future.

Greetings,
Chris

The hostility you see here towards Ubuntu is promarily due to the way that it is degrading real debian. Kanotix tries to be as pure debian as it can get and helps debian develop; it doesn't poach all the developers and then doctor the packages so they will only work with with Kanotix. How many times have you looked for a deb and found the only deb on offer is a Ubuntu one? Not good. What happens if Ubuntu hurts Debian? What happens to Ubuntu? It relies on debian. It is a crazy situation that has no real winners (except M$ perhaps).
Kanotix is about freedom, Ubuntu is about locking you in to the Ubuntu way and Ubuntu packages. One must wonder what Shuttleworth's true plan is.

Sorry, Slam, I'm a business major .

Really, Kanotix not fitting a business model.

The Kanotix team themselves may not be as profit driven so much as other Linux's or as hungry as some (MS) corportations. But they do fit a business model.

As a manager at a corporation, and knowledge of Linux, even Kanotix, I would more likely back an IT wanting to leave MS or other and go for Linux.


So just because I am a business major.

By the way, I am double major

I will graduate with 2 degrees

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Nowhere did I say a business would use Sid (Debian-Unstable).

Kanotix is an operating system. It will fit INTO a business model.

Profit does not mean money..

I love Kanotix and have used it for two years but it is not a distro for business use.

@titan: Please do us a favor and mark your personal opinion as such:

That might be true for you and your business, but it is definitely not true for many other businesses who already rely on KANOTIX and have found it fitting into their business model.


Chris

Already read it.

When I say community, I mean all that contribute, and use products under any Open Source license.
What I don't get, it seems some people do not want to share at all. It seems they want it all to be some secret society(cult) that keeps GNU to themselves, and not share with anyone.

Well guess what, IT is out there. Businesses are using it. There is nothing you can do to stop it, except withdraw yourself from the community.

It is no long 1990's, this is a new mellinia. The true essence of Open Source is sharing, and expecting nothing for your efforts (as Cathbard pointed out).

This animosity within the community toward business, and ignorance of the community are the reasons why acceptance into business is soo difficult.

A few bad apples in corporate world have given an incorrect view of business, as well as the abundance of bad apples (fundimentalist) within the community has given Open Source a bad appearance.

Why does Linus work for a business?
Were does Stallman work?
What about the majority of the community?
Even those self employed, it is still a type of business?
Or is everyone within the community sharing $$, food, clothing, etc.?
Or maybe it's all on wellfare?

Business will not go away. It's been around since Mesopotamia.