Kororaa 17 (Bubbles) released

It is my pleasure to announce the release of Kororaa 17 (codename “Bubbles”) which is now available for download. Although I delayed this release by two weeks, unfortunately only half a dozen or so mirrors have currently synchronised the ISO images. Please be patient with slower downloads until the rest complete. Thank you.

Recognition
We are starting to get a nice little community around Kororaa and I’d to thank everyone for their help and support, which is greatly appreciated. I’d like to especially thank the following three people (in alphabetical order), who have all played a crucial role in making this release possible:

  • Ian Firns (firnsy)
  • Jim Dean (ozjd)
  • Liam Campbell (lijcam)

Features
Derived from Fedora 171, this release comes with the usual Kororaa extras out of the box, such as:

  • Tweaked KDE and GNOME base systems
  • Experimental support for Cinnamon desktop in GNOME
  • Third party repositories (Adobe, Chrome, RPMFusion, VirtualBox)
  • Firefox as the default web browser (with integration theme for KDE)
  • Firefox extensions enabled (Adblock Plus, DownThemAll, Flashblock, Xclear)
  • Instant messaging client (Kopete for KDE, Empathy for GNOME)
  • Microblogging client (Choqok for KDE, Gwibber for GNOME)
  • Full multimedia support (excluding Flash, see next)
  • Adobe Flash plugin installable via package manager
  • Jockey device manager to handle drivers such as ATI and NVIDIA
  • Video editor (Kdenlive for KDE, OpenShot for GNOME)
  • VLC as the default media player
  • SELinux enabled (particularly worthwhile for Flash)
  • English (Australian/British) support & dictionaries
  • and more..

Desktops
GNOME 3 comes with two desktops – the default Shell (plus fallback mode) as well as experimental support for Cinnamon desktop from Linux Mint. Shell includes a number of extensions to provide an enhanced user experience (and help ease the transition from GNOME 2.x), and Cinnamon has also been designed to provide a more comfortable experience. Kororaa also includes GNOME Tweak Tool to put further customisation at the user’s fingertips.

GNOME Desktop Cinnamon Desktop
Kororaa 17 GNOME desktop Kororaa 17 Cinnamon desktop

The KDE desktop has a custom layout with specific default applications, such as Firefox for the web and VLC for media. KDE has long shipped the Netbook interface, designed for computers with smaller screen real estate.

KDE Desktop KDE Netbook Desktop
Kororaa 17 KDE desktop Kororaa 17 KDE Netbook desktop

Upgrade
It is still recommended that existing Kororaa users perform a fresh install and users still on Kororaa 15 should install 17 as the older version is no longer supported upstream.

Feedback
We’d love to hear your feedback on the forums, so download it today and let us know!

Note: Kororaa is not provided or supported by the Fedora Project. Official, unmodified Fedora software is available through the Fedora Project website.

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