Kororaa is back!

csmart · #1 1st January 2011, 07:07 AM

Hi everyone,

You might remember Kororaa from back in the day? Well I've brought it back, as a KDE based Fedora Remix!

It's designed to make Fedora easier for new users and has lots of tweaks to achieve this (including full multimedia support). It pre-configures several third party repositories (such as Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Livna, RPMFusion, and VirtualBox), making it easier to install additional software. Users can install both Adobe’s Flash plugin and the NVIDIA drivers easily with installer helpers.

The standard version (32 and 64 bit) aims to provide a tool for every common desktop task out of the box. It sets Firefox as the default KDE browser, and VLC as the default media player, etc.

I've also just released the new Lite version - it provides a minimal KDE system (still with Firefox and multimedia tweaks) and focuses on Internet connectivity. Users can use it to build up the system from there (or use it as is, if they just need a browser).

Anyway, if all that interests you, please check it out and let me know what you think!

See http://kororaa.org for more details :-)

Thanks and Happy New Year,
Chris

***Hlingler*** · #2 3rd January 2011, 08:35 PM

I know that several of us have tried this. Looks OK here - still evaluating.

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csmart · #3 4th January 2011, 01:01 AM

Thanks, I would really appreciate it! Just looking to see if everything works, if anything's missing, and if people have some ideas on how to improve it :-)

-c

***Dan*** · #4 4th January 2011, 01:59 AM

Looking pretty snazzy so far. I hadn't realized KDE had evolved this far. I may not just dismiss it out of hand any more.

Firefox's recent misadventures with animated gifs are still very present and annoying, though.

csmart · #5 4th January 2011, 03:03 AM

Hi Dan,

Thanks for testing it out. Is there a workaround for that Firefox problem, or is it being fixed upstream? Not sure if it's something I can fix for Kororaa..

-c

***Dan*** · #6 4th January 2011, 03:25 AM

Honestly, I don't know. There's a thread about it here on the forum, but I haven't been following it.

Good! The GIMP is here. Some cheese-headed techno-twerps have developed the slovenly habit of dropping it from liveCD/DVDs ... and in my book, that constitutes an instant auto-fail. <..

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David Batson · #7 4th January 2011, 03:34 AM

I use Opera instead of Firefox, but I have read that libcairo is the culprit regarding Firefox and animated gifs. You need a version of libcairo other than what is installed to resolve this problem.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597174

csmart · #8 4th January 2011, 06:00 AM

Yeah, I put a few GTK based apps on KDE because they simply need to be there :-) Like Firefox and GIMP..

Thanks David. Looks like Mozilla is working on a fix, so not much we can do in Fedora at the moment but wait.

Fedora bug is here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628331

-c

kurtdriver · #9 11th February 2011, 02:13 AM

Thanks for your hard work on this, I couldn't find a checksum, could you please put them on them download page? Or did I just miss them?

csmart · #10 11th February 2011, 02:20 AM

They should be on the SourceForge download page, if you click the "i" on the file.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kororaa/files/14/

I will see if I can add it to the download page too, though.

-c

kurtdriver · #11 11th February 2011, 03:14 AM

Thanks, it turns out I got a buggy download. Trying again.

csmart · #12 11th February 2011, 04:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kurtdriver

Thanks, it turns out I got a buggy download. Trying again.

SourceForge is going through lots of turmoil at the moment due to those cracked accounts. The download service might be disrupted too - in fact I have a beta2 ready to be released and it's uploaded to the SourceForge servers, but it never becomes available for download :-( Don't know when that will be fixed..

-c

JamesNZ · #13 11th February 2011, 04:56 AM

Does Kororaa have good support for dial-up modems, particularly Lucent WinModems?

csmart · #14 11th February 2011, 05:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JamesNZ

Does Kororaa have good support for dial-up modems, particularly Lucent WinModems?

I don't know, I'm afraid. I don't have a winmodem, so I couldn't say. It does have ppp support though, and everything that NetworkManager supports.

Maybe you can try it, then tell me if it works or not ;-)

-c

JamesNZ · #15 11th February 2011, 05:06 AM

Thanks Chris, I'll try it out. I'm betting the first thing I'll do is open Big Buck Bunny