Wishing you a nice, relaxing Easter break.
May you find time to ponder the reason for the season.
Safe holidays!

The forums are now back online.

We had to restore a backup from the 9th April, so if your post is missing, please re-add.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Chris

Code-name: "Blood, sweat and tears."

Note: For current bugs and issues in this release please see bugs page.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the one you've been waiting so patiently for! After narrowly dodging insanity I am able to release Kororaa Xgl Live CD version 0.2! We have hacked our Kororaa Installer to work with this Xgl Live CD, so easy installation is now possible! This version also sports both Radeon and Intel DRI support, KDE 3.5.2, updated Gnome 2.14, Arch-CK 2.6.16 Kernel, SCSI support and more!

There are many many new features for you, some of which are listed below. Please see the Kororaa installation manual for detailed instructions if you require a guide for the install process. Updated grub installer code now also detects other Linux installs you may have on your hard drive, so you can safely let Kororaa configure your boot-loader (if you want).

I have tested 0.2 as best I could with my limited hardware, so as always, feedback and bug reports are more than welcome!

Download information here.

Some enhancements include:
ArchCK 2.6.16 kernel
ATI Drivers updated (8.23.7)
Gnome 2.14 updated
Higher resolutions now supported
Installation now possible
Intel DRI support
KDE 3.5.2 included
"No X" boot level
Radeon DRI support
SCSI / USB storage support
Swap activation
Switch to vesafb-tng
Video and sound files included
Wireless support (ipw2x, madwifi, ndiswrapper)
*Fixed Automounting
*Fixed Console switching
*Fixed Sound
*Fixed Super key

Plus lots and lots and lots of other tweaks!

Some new apps include:
ekiga
ftp
grub
gxine
pppoe
ppracer
transset-df
vlc
xwinwrap

Known issues:
*Gnome-terminal not working on ATI / DRI systems, please use another terminal (or KDE);
**This means the "Install to Disk" icon on the desktop will not work on affected systems. See bugs page for fix.

*Water plugin freezes the menus under Gnome after stopping the effect.

Thanks
I must thank Coffee-Buzz for his excellent work and help, and also for putting up with all my questions; BuzzMoo for using his media files; the Linux team at ATI who helped me solve a number of issues; all of our mirrors, linuxtracker.org for hosting the bittorrent, and everyone out there working on Gentoo and Xgl :)

Last but not least, thank you everyone for your support. The response to version 0.1 was simply overwhelming! We hope you enjoy version 0.2 just as much as, if not more.

Time for me to take a hard earned break!

Chris

P.S "Previously, practical people of principle have pondered the prospect of presenting this painstakingly prepared project a pretty penny or pound in place of positively pure pleasure. So if perhaps, perchance, you personally perceive this a possibility, a perfectly poised path for processing precious payments is provided by PayPal!
Thank you!"

Good morning everyone!

After a few hours sleep I'm back in the office and ready to roll. I have a system with a radeon card that I'll use to test this all out.

Thanks for your support. I'll update again once I know where I'm at.

Cheers,
Chris

I hate to do this to everyone, but it's now 4am by the old scale and I have one issue remaining - the CD is freezing and mis-behaving on the X300 ATI fglrx system I have borrowed.

I am not confident enough to release it just yet. Tomorrow morning I shall aquire another piece of equipment that is known to not freeze, and re-test.

I would hate to release a CD that doesn't work! I hope you understand.

In the mean time, here are some pictures to tide you over :)

The new inclusion of KDE 3.5.2 with xwinwrap running;
KDE 3.5.2 cube rotated;
Gnome 2.14 desktop with installer.

Thanks for your patience once again.

I'm going to go home and get a few hours sleep and come back to finish the job tomorrow.. don't hate me!

Chris