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Korora (operating system)

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OS family
  
Unix-like

Source model
  
Open source

Working state
  
Current

Update method
  
DNF (PackageKit)

Korora (operating system)

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

  • Sabayon Linux already serves a purpose as a binary Gentoo distribution
  • Gentoo already comes with a GUI installer
  • Compiz is already installed on most desktop distributions by default
  • Kororaa couldn't compete with other distributions which include non-free drivers by default.
  • the weight of the project was too much for a single developer.

    • 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.”

    References

    Korora (operating system) Wikipedia
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