Kororaa

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**Kororaa**

Website:	www.kororaa.org
Company/ developer:	Christopher Smart and Matthew Oliver
OS family:	Linux
Source model:	Open source
Latest stable release:	2005-beta2-r1, LiveCD 0.3 / December 12, 2005 April 6, 2006
Supported platforms:	i686, AMD64
Kernel type:	Monolithic kernel
Default user interface:	GNOME, KDE
License:	GPL
Working state:	Current

Kororaa is a binary installation method for Gentoo Linux which aims for easy installation of a Gentoo system by using install scripts instead of manual configuration. The name is an alternate spelling for the Māori word, "kororā" - the Little Penguin. Kororaa is pre-configured for SSE capable processors.

1 History
2 Kororaa XGL LiveCD
3 Kororaa XGL Live CD and the GPL
4 Version History
5 External links

[edit] History

Kororaa was started by Christopher Smart as a method to quickly reproduce a Gentoo Linux installation on multiple desktop machines. Chris also intended that Kororaa be used to quickly demonstrate the power of Gentoo Linux to users critical of 'compile times.'

The introduction of the Kororaa XGL LiveCD was intended to demonstrate the capabilities of Novell's Xgl and Compiz.

[edit] Kororaa XGL LiveCD

Screenshot of the Xgl abilities of the Kororaa Live CD

Kororaa gained attention in March 2006 when 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 KDE and GNOME.

[edit] Kororaa XGL Live CD and the GPL

In May 2006 an unnamed kernel developer sent an email to Christopher Smart, Kororaa's leader, suggesting that packaging the proprietary NVIDIA and fglrx drivers was a violation of the GPL as they take GPL code from the kernel and build it into a non-GPL kernel module, qualifying as a derived work. This caused Smart to temporarily remove the CD image from his website in August 2006 [1].

Two months later, version (0.3) was released, and all proprietary drivers were removed by request. Because of this, only limited ATI and NVIDIA graphics card support was included. Intel graphic chips were unaffected^{[citation needed]} because they use an open source driver.