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Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering (NewsForge)
NewsForge looks
at the Kororaa live CD with Xgl. "Kororaa is a distro that
provides a binary installer for Gentoo. Djpharoah, one of the Kororaa IRC
and forum moderators, says using Kororaa allowed him to completely install
and configure a Gentoo system in a couple of hours instead of a couple of
days. The response to the live CD has been so great that the ISO had to be
removed from the Kororaa site and is available at present only from the
list of mirrors you can find here. Articles on Groklaw and elsewhere have
fanned the flames of interest even higher."
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Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering (NewsForge) Posted Mar 14, 2006 20:31 UTC (Tue) by fenrus (guest, #31654) [Link] Too bad that this CD requires and ships the binary nvidia/ATI drivers ;(
Would have been a much better showcase of open source greatness if those weren't needed
Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering (NewsForge) Posted Mar 15, 2006 1:40 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] What do you mean 'requires'?
If you have a onboard intel or a older r200 style ATI card you should be able to get it to work with XGL by using the X.org drivers.
I don't know about the R300 drivers.. although I'd love to know from anybody that is actually using them!! I don't own a r300 card and my r200 card is in my ibook and thusly useless with this x86 cdrom.
Keep in mind that all of this is very experimental software.
Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering (NewsForge) Posted Mar 15, 2006 3:56 UTC (Wed) by wilreichert (subscriber, #17680) [Link] My laptop has the mobile verion of the R300 (M10) & the Kororaa LiveCD and whichever ATI drivers it includes worked like a charm. Can't wait for XGL to migrate from various overlays to the main portage branch. Right now its just a little more hacking on my system than I care to do.
Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering (NewsForge) Posted Mar 15, 2006 8:33 UTC (Wed) by fenrus (guest, #31654) [Link] "should" is the right word; this CD doesn't.
It's bad for linux that they do this, and it's most likely not even legal
Names are getting weirder and weirder Posted Mar 14, 2006 20:41 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] While relentless KPDF is fighting passionately for the workers' rights in the Bundestag and long-beaked Ekiga is laying its eggs on sunny Australian beaches, Kororaa CDs instill fear among its users that their vital body parts are about to shrink like minimized windows on XGL.Sorry, couldn't resist.
Names are getting weirder and weirder Posted Mar 14, 2006 20:59 UTC (Tue) by guinan (subscriber, #4644) [Link] In related news, outbreaks of ecmascript have been reported in metropolitan centers throughout the northeast.
Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering (NewsForge) Posted Mar 14, 2006 22:50 UTC (Tue) by richo123 (guest, #24309) [Link] Christians from Canberra! What would you expect? I tried the bling out on Ubuntu Dapper and super impressed by Winblows loving 14 year old daughter which is a start.
Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering (NewsForge) Posted Mar 15, 2006 0:32 UTC (Wed) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link]
Maybe somebody should tell these people about BitTorrent.
Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering (NewsForge) Posted Mar 15, 2006 2:17 UTC (Wed) by British (guest, #19768) [Link] You can get it on BT, there is a link to it on their site
Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering (NewsForge) Posted Mar 15, 2006 2:18 UTC (Wed) by neoprene (guest, #8520) [Link] http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=1604 <--- worked for me.
"...completely install and configure a Gentoo system in a couple of hours instead of a couple of days"
Wow, that's impressive considering that Kanotix [Debian-Sid] installs in like 8 minutes, and things actually works, including network, and tons of wireless stuff. Then "apt-get install ..." until your hard disk is almost full :)
Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering (NewsForge) Posted Mar 15, 2006 4:41 UTC (Wed) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022) [Link] You haven't accounted for tweaking. Gentoo users are like Slackware users, only crazier. ;)
Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering (NewsForge) Posted Mar 15, 2006 7:56 UTC (Wed) by paleoflatus (guest, #36451) [Link] I agree. It's amazing how many Linux users haven't yet discovered Kano'streasure. I just upgraded to the CeBIT version and it's the cat's meeoww.
Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering (NewsForge) Posted Mar 15, 2006 14:46 UTC (Wed) by finster (guest, #32338) [Link] Kanotix: Yes! The only distro to get persnickety laptops going with very little problems. Nice scripts for pulling down and installing propietary ATI and nVidia drivers for linux. Cebit version: I'm off to google. Gentoo: So cool; but I have to give up sleep during installs. Some of the best docs that I have seen and a community that does a lot of cutting at the bleeding edge. Good on 'em!
Thanks for the torrent link, I now have Kororaa.
Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering (NewsForge) Posted Mar 15, 2006 13:14 UTC (Wed) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814) [Link] Argh...another prediction of "the year of the Linux desktop". I highly doubt there will ever be such a year. It will not be a revolution, it will be an evolution. It is already happening and deployments will continue to happen all around.
Linux on the desktop Posted Mar 15, 2006 21:32 UTC (Wed) by mikov (subscriber, #33179) [Link] I don't know ... Our business is entirely Linux based - we deliver a solution 100% based on Debian and surrounding tools and our office servers are Debian too. Still, everybody who is not 100% involved with software development is not running a Linux desktop - way too impractical :-(
For example: even if OpenOffice is great and we could get all our staff to start using it, it is still not 100% compatible with MSOffice - there are documents (very few, but they exist) which format differently when exported/imported. When communicating with the outside world (where sadly and somewhat surprisingly nobody has heard about OpenOffice), this becomes an unnecessary hassle.
Here is another example. I was going to demonstrate an early version of an AJAX application to a potential distributor. The application only supported Firefox at the time - since our development is under Linux, testing and fixing for IE hadn't been finished yet. Surprise, surprise - nobody in the office where I was doing the demo had Firefox. Most people had no idea what it was at all. Mind you these were not end customers but distributors. (XUL applications were completely out of the question)
So, from where I stand Linux itself is ready for the desktop - I use it on my desktop all the time - but the world isn't ready :-)
Linux on the desktop Posted Mar 16, 2006 14:05 UTC (Thu) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link] there are documents (very few, but they exist) which format differently when exported/importedOh, you mean like between MS Word 2002 and MS Word 2003? (our company is going through this now). Or maybe like between MS Word 97 and MS Word 2000? And so on and so forth. Conclusions left to the reader...
Linux on the desktop Posted Mar 16, 2006 17:30 UTC (Thu) by mikov (subscriber, #33179) [Link] No, between OpenOffice and MSWord. I haven't been able to run MSWord on my Linux desktop, have you ?
Linux on the desktop Posted Mar 17, 2006 3:27 UTC (Fri) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link] Sorry, I wasn't clear.
My point was that even between different versions of microsoft word, word itself has umm, issues, with importing/exporting to the different versions. We're seeing this now between Word 2002 and Word 2003: Word 2003 is being rolled out across our enterprise slowly so we're having lots of cases where multiple versions of Word are being used to edit docs and we're running into formatting problems. It is my understanding that this is nothing new w.r.t. Word.
So for anyone who complains that OOo doesn't do this "perfectly", just point that even Microsoft Word itself sometimes (often?) has issues.
Linux on the desktop Posted Mar 17, 2006 4:41 UTC (Fri) by mikov (subscriber, #33179) [Link] I apologize too - I realized what you meant after I had hastily posted :-)
I didn't know MSWord had such problems of its own (I haven't used MSWord for years now ...) That seems like a pretty big deal to me. I will definitely keep it in mind, thanks!
Linux on the desktop Posted Mar 23, 2006 1:19 UTC (Thu) by showell (subscriber, #2929) [Link] It gets even funnier,
Although word 2003 won't open some docs from word 2002, OpenOffice will! My company is totally MS oriented but I keep a copy of ooo close just so that I can read all those word 2002 docs sent that have problems.
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