Kurumin
Kurumin Linux is a Live CD operating system based on Debian. Its main features are the advanced hardware auto-detection (inherited from Knoppix) and a Brazilian Portuguese user interface, and its main goal is ease of use. As of release 7.0, the size of the disk image is approximately 603 MB.
Version NG 8.06, based on Ubuntu 8.04, was released June 24, 2008, and was discontinued January 29, 2009.
Features
The distribution boasts an open-source (a series of shell scripts and Kommander based panels) control center named ClicaAki (roughly: "ClickHere"), which features a series of "magic ICONS" that install software not included in the live CD (including games and proprietary video drivers) and configure a wide range of networking options. It also provides access to the Synaptic package manager.
The name comes from the Tupi word "kurumi", which means boy. The usage of the letter K, instead of the usual Portuguese spelling ("curumi" or "curumim"), brings it in line with KDE (Kurumin's default desktop environment), as well as with Knoppix.
Kurumin control panel ( AKA ClicaAki ), which had shortcuts to scripts made by him that performed very useful tasks like downloading and installing free games, apps divided into category and a short description of how they work and their differences, which is very useful for novice users in the Linux world. This control panel also had scripts for downloading and automatic configuring 3d video cards ( ATI and Nvidia ) a very daring task for novice users which now could do it with just one click. Another very good aspect of the distro is that it had support for many "winmodens", some that had no official packages of drivers in the Debian repository, and also with scripts that automatized the whole task of compiling and configuring the module. With this aspects, Kurumin spread the Gnu/Linux operating system in Brazil in a level never seen before. In the late of 2007 Morimoto said that the project would be halted or have its scope reduced. In November 2008 the project was officially discontinued.
Criticism
Even though Kurumin was one of the most popular distros in Brazil for end-users, many advanced users and developers criticized it for not sending its patches upstream to the Debian tree, and calling itself a distribution, which some disagree saying it was a CDD, Custom Debian Disk, an install disk with some addons and configurations changes.
Kurumin often had problems with stability, some changes made by Morimoto often broke the system making it unusable after an upgrade, because Morimoto's work wasn't coordinated with Debian's developers. That happened mostly because Kurumin used Debian unstable repositories, as Kurumin didn't have any repo for packages.
See also
Distributions based on Kurumin Linux:
- Poseidon Linux
- Kalango Linux
External links
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