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Developer Christopher Smart and Ian Firns Latest release Korora 25 / 7 December 2016; 3 months ago (2016-12-07) | ||
Korora (previously Kororaa) is a remix of the Fedora Linux distribution. Originally Kororaa was a binary installation method for Gentoo Linux which aimed for easy installation of a Gentoo system by using install scripts instead of manual configuration. The name derives from the Māori word, “kororā” – the little penguin.
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History
Korora was started by Christopher Smart as a method to quickly reproduce a Gentoo Linux installation on multiple desktop machines. Chris also intended that Korora be used to quickly demonstrate the power of Gentoo Linux to users critical of 'compile times.' On November 7, 2007, Chris announced that he was discontinuing his work on the project, and that there would be no new versions of Korora.
The introduction of the Korora XGL Live CD was intended to demonstrate the capabilities of Novell’s Xgl and Compiz.
On December 23, 2010, Chris Smart has announced rebirth of Kororas Fedora Remix.
On 000000002013-05-02-0000May 2, 2013, Korora 18 was released, featuring a revised name spelled with only one A and a new logo.
Kororaa XGL Live CD
In March 2006, a Kororaa based Live CD was released, preconfigured with Xgl capabilities. The live CD supports NVIDIA, ATI and Intel graphics cards, and the latest version (0.3) comes with both K Desktop Environment 3 and GNOME.
Development hiatus and restart
On November 7, 2007, Smart announced that development on Kororaa would be ended, and no further versions would be released; reasons given were that
On December 23, 2010, Smart announced the restart of Kororaa with a release of the Fedora-based version of the distro: “I know that you'll be looking for something Linux related to do over your Christmas holidays and New Year, so I've just released the first installable live DVD beta for testing. The final release will be Kororaa 14 (derived from Fedora 14), code-named 'Nemo'. As with the original Kororaa, it's based on KDE. Essentially, Kororaa has been reborn as a Fedora remix, inspired by Rahul Sundaram's Omega GNOME remix. It aims to provide all general computing uses out of the box and it aims to include software packages that most users will want.”