Katian

Katian is my personal Linux distribution. It was born out of the realisation that the easiest and most maintainable way to achieve portable application selection and settings for multiple installs was to actually create a derivative distribution, especially coupled with the great opportunities of live media. Katian started out based on Xubuntu, later Ubuntu with a full Gnome desktop and now is moving to Fedora with Gnome. As you can see, the project is still in a very experimental stage and I am literally trying out a lot of new things with every release.

The current release series is named Crow and the latest release is Katian 0.02

Bug tracking and feature planning is taking place on Launchpad — help us out if you want.

Current Version

Warning: The current version of Katian is very experimental and not intended for daily or production use. This is only a test release. Use at your own risk!

Katian 0.02: katian-0.02.iso (1.2 GB) — MD5 Hash: 755a68d6a5b73faa000a3a0142d8bb1a

Older Versions

You can download older versions of Katian here:

Katian 0.01: katian-0.01.iso (1.1 GB) — MD5 Hash: f599220f7d22fc18354a0ce83f2fd059
Katian 0.00: katian-0.00.iso (976.1 MB) — MD5 Hash: 9f17f167781e3ede2aa3dbee2845fbad

Coding Projects

This is a list of the software projects I am currently working on:

Katian — my personal Linux distro, designed to closely track the software I use day-to-day and to be customised to my personal tastes
Radiotower — a podcast publishing system for the web written in Django and designed for ease of use

Other Stuff

Some miscellaneous bits and bobs:

Geekbox — a description of the kit of geek tools in a tin I carry around on duty as the resident computer geek