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After nearly five years Kororaa has hit the market with three distributions including 64 bits.

Enjoy the graphic feature and it was on of the most downloaded distribution few years ago.

Kororaa project has released a live CD demonstrating the new Xgl technology for 3D window manipulation and other unusual effects:

Today I am happy to release a Kororaa live CD showcasing Xgl technology.

If you would like to find out what it's all about, then download the CD and boot up your PC!

The Live CD comes with X.Org 7.0, GNOME 2.12.2, 3D support and of course Xgl. Supported drivers are 'nvidia' (NVIDIA) and 'fglrx' (ATI).

Minimum recommended configuration is Pentium 3 with NVIDIA GeForce video card..

After a period of hiatus Kororaa Linux, famous for being one of the first live distributions with out-of-the-box support for the Xgl technology and 3D window manipulation, has been reborn as a Fedora-based live DVD for Linux beginners. Chris Smart on the project's home page.

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 to use.

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Another new distribution based on Debian “squeeze” with xfce graphic interface.

It is over 700 MiB and fits into DVD, hence I won't call it light weight.

It is pleasing and packed with lot of utilities.

Have taken the trouble to release 64 bit version too which is value added ingredient.

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I have been lying low as far as Linux is concerned mainly not because of my lack of interest but due to lack of support from the Sri-Lankan Telecoms.

Its download speed is well below its stated or paid for service contract.

It is often below 10 and consistently down to 5 KB per second even at night do not ever think of downloading a DVD.

At 10 KB per second it amounts to I MiB per minute and that works up to 50 to 60 for an hour which is pretty slow and it is like that for the last 3 or 4 months.

I have been trying to download over 250 distributions (mostly updates) which are paused state over a month and consistently Firefox breaks down halfway through the process.

I have tried to downlod Taylor Swift (609 MiB) an AntiX-Mephis derivative for old computers and it broke down over 10 times but I am persisting till I get it down and test it which has almost become an obsession.
It broke down again few minutes ago.

In 10 minutes less of 24 hours finally, I manged to s download Knoppix DVD and it is fantastic.

Thanks to the guys who were seeding the image. There were over 250 seeders and out of which 50 were active when I downloaded it. There were over 50 leeches inactive which was fine for me and I was the only leecher in this part of the world at night.

So finally it was burned and tested one month after the CD version was downloaded and tested on the 1^st of January (was a holiday).

Finally it gives the option of installing it to the hard drive and USB version is going to be my handy friend.

Thanks guys and girls at Knoppix and a Happy 10^th Anniversary and Happy New Year 2011 for all of you!