Kororaa Lite (KDE) beta released

Kororaa Lite (KDE) has been released and is now available for download in 32 and 64 bit.

Kororaa Lite is a minimal KDE based system which provides a smaller footprint for users to then install the programs they want. It disables various services and cuts out some hefty KDE features by default, to reduce the resource footprint. It might be useful for netbooks and lower-end systems, or users who want to start with a solid base and build up from there.

It is designed to provide Internet connectivity out of the box and focuses on the following:

• CD size (<= 700MB)
• Smaller resource footprint
• Network-ability (wireless, VPN, dial-up)
• Internet browsing and social networking
• Multimedia support
• Broad hardware support
• Uses KDE Netbook interface by default (changeable)

As with the full Kororaa release, it includes:

• Third party repositories (Adobe, Google Chrome, Livna, RPMFusion)
• Firefox as the default web browser
• VLC as the default media player
• Installers for Adobe Flash and NVIDIA drivers
• SELinux enabled (particularly worthwhile for Flash)

Unlike the full Kororaa, it does not provide these out of the box:

• Full range of applications (no office suite, PIM, java, or graphics tools, etc)
• Build tools required for building external modules
• Extra fonts
• Printing support

Please test it out and provide any feedback you might have, especially if you have ideas on how to further tweak KDE to reduce resource footprint!

Thanks,
Chris