Kahel OS Light Edition For Linux

As its name suggests, Kahel OS Light Edition is a special flavor of the Kahel OS operating system that aims to be as lightweight as possible, suitable for netbook computers. Kahel OS is a Linux distribution derived from the powerful and highly acclaimed Arch Linux OS.

The Light edition of Kahel OS can be downloaded from its official website or via Softpedia as ISO images that have been designed for both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86_64) hardware platforms. The user can write the ISO images to either CD discs or USB thumb drives in order to boot them from the BIOS of a PC.

This is not a live distribution and can only be installed. From the boot menu, the user can start the installer, as well as to reboot or shutdown the machine. The text-mode installer will require you to set the system clock, prepare the disk drive, select and install packages, configure the system and install the bootloader.

Being designed from the ground up to be as lightweight as possible, the Light edition of Kahel OS uses Xfce as its default and only desktop environment. Xfce has been tweaked to look like a traditional desktop, comprised of a single taskbar located on the bottom edge of the screen, from where users can access the main menu, launch frequently used applications, interact with running programs, as well as to cycle between virtual workspaces and access the system tray area.

The operating system offers only a few applications, such as a web browser, a terminal emulator, a text editor and a file manager. We’ve noticed a strange thing about this distribution, it features no main menu, which might be very weird for beginners.