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.
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Klax is a great idea
I think that bootable CD like Klax is a great idea to easily get people to take a look at the newest development version of KDE and maybe even submit some bug reports. I posted an article on my blog about it to maybe help spread the news about it a bit. I'll also submit it to the eMule Content page and share it for a while. I hope it will help KDE 3.4 and I hope we see more bootable CDs like this in the future.
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The release on eMule Content page is finaly approved:
http://content.emule-project.net/view.php?pid=821
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why not
you didn't enable composite support, d-bus/hal, xscreensaver? why not, if I might ask? its much more fun if these things would be enabled... much better fit to impress friends
Re: why not
The composite extension is still experimental. It is included thanks to Slackware 10.1 including X.org 6.8.1, you just have to enable it (run first time "gui", then modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf as usual, second time use "startx"). But without NVidia's or ATI's drivers, which are not included, it's really slow-going. Only usable for screenshots perhaps.
d-bus/hal is partly because of my laziness. Also you don't want to change the CD-ROM in drive when running a Live-CD.
So what would be left? USB sticks?
xscreensaver would have been additional 6 MB which would not even show KDE-specific features. And the IMO nicer screensavers requires fast/working GLX driver/support.
I'm sure there will be many mature Live-CDs all offering all above once KDE 3.4 is released.
tried it
in windows using vmware. worked great.
I'll give it a shot ;)
I'll let you know how it works out.