Get your FREE KNOS Demo

Here at last

 

Open Office? Was that not discontinued?

 

No, Oracle put it under community support.

 

CloneRanger, have you been able to find KNOS DEMO iso checksums?

I've posted a question on their forum about it but perhaps you've seen/found them already?

 

No, but i havn't DL'd it yet. It should be totally safe direct from the source though If you play with it, let us know how it goes

 

C/p'ed from the KNOS forum; link

The demo checksums (RAR file, versions 2.1) are:

knos32-demo.rar 646,154,705 bytes
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CRC32: 2A13D712
MD5: E7C3FA70CC089A211C1BF25048BE7B6B
SHA-1: EB5B958C6787B43D629D7846868DD3F590AD2174

knos64-demo.rar 697,864,514 bytes
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CRC32: 8E900292
MD5: 2A2CA48BBEFEE50ACBEE5982A6E6E5F7
SHA-1: 87CDAF95B9719F038DA8BA6372C0FA031201FF7F

Unpacked files:

knos32-demo.iso (inside rar file) 684,052,480 bytes
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CRC32: F4B68AE7
MD5: 6909E24B7D8C6E9F9EEE76BAA035D59C
SHA-1: 426C12DA7094CBE49D83FD96BEFB77CB0EB82DAD

knos64-demo.iso (inside rar file) 742,017,024 bytes
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CRC32: F2186088
MD5: 73C8624A079814C6E6952036F299F35A
SHA-1: 57F0F8FA69F15B943DEA54D98854B1D17B8866BB

 

Testing went not completely flawless.
I've booted KNOS Demo x86 succesfully on an old desktop (Athlon 3000+, 1,5GB), Firefox worked fine (through LAN) but when I tried to change the desktop appearance, the machine got stuck.
Nothing important of course; the desktop appearance but changing it, brought the OS to a full stop.
Keyboard and mouse would not respond anymore. I have not yet tried to repeat this.

I didn't manage to boot succesfully on an old IBM laptop (PentiumM, 1 GB).
Halfway through the boot process, the screen went black, no more videosignal apparantly.
Perhaps this old machine simply is too old.
However, these are the KNOS Sys reqs link.

Mind you, I've tried to run it on pretty old hardware, I might try it later on, on a more recent Core2Duo/2GB laptop and a new desktop with a modern AMD quad-core later on. But now I've got to run...
Please, don't let this put anyone off, testing sofar was all on hardware most folks would have binned by now.

KNOS Demo also offers, after booting up, an option to make a bootable USB version of it, so I'll try that later on.
I'd love to hear other folks' opinions/experiences with this 'Kevin and Nancy' OS.

(Who are Kevin and Nancy McAleavey? KNOS Information link

 

Sorry to hear that. While both of those machines are older boxes and we've had to lean our automatic detection towards the vagueries of newer machines, they should meet the minimum standards to be happy with KNOS. It sounds like your two might not have turned up during our two years of beta testing and it would be most useful if we can find out what's going on there and why in order to improve our hardware detection for a future update under our maintenance plan.

If you'd be willing to come back over to our forum and post up the problem, KNOS has the ability to give us diagnostics information on what went wrong there which can help us get to the bottom of it and fix it. Apparently we saw a GUI crash there on the first machine where it might have run out of video memory, and apparently there is a BIOS issue with the laptop. There are probably ways to work around both of those issues until we can find a solution if you'd like to help us out.

And THANKS for giving it a try ... let's see what we can do about that.