Kurumin Linux was a
Live CD
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operating system
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Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also in ...
based on
Debian
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. Its main features are the advanced hardware auto-detection (inherited from Knoppix) and a
Portuguese user interface, and its main goal is ease of use. As of release 7.0, the size of the
disk image
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is approximately 603 MB.
Version NG 8.06, based on Ubuntu 8.04, was released June 24, 2008, and was discontinued on January 29, 2009.
Name origin and history
The name comes from the
Tupi Tupi may refer to:
* Tupi people of Brazil
* Tupi or Tupian languages, spoken in South America
** Tupi language, an extinct Tupian language spoken by the Tupi people
* Tupi oil field off the coast of Brazil
* Tupi Paulista, a Brazilian municipalit ...
word ''"curumim"'', which means
boy. The usage of the letter K, instead of the usual
Portuguese spelling (''"curumi"'' or ''"curumim"''), brings it in line with
KDE
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(Kurumin's default
desktop environment
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), as well as with Knoppix.
In late 2007, Morimoto said, that the project would be halted or have its scope reduced. In November 2008, the project was officially discontinued.
Features
The distribution sports an open-source control center named ''ClicaAki'' (roughly: "ClickHere"). It features a series of shell scripts, Kommander-based panels, and "magic icons" that install software not included on the live CD, and with which icons one can configure a wide range of networking options. The control center also provides access to the
Synaptic package manager
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.
The ClicaAki control panel has shortcuts to scripts that also perform tasks like downloading and installing free games, with apps divided into categories and a short description of how they work and their differences.
Hardware support
The control panel also includes scripts for downloading and automatically configuring drivers for 3D video cards (ATI and Nvidia), a difficult task for novice users.
Another feature of the distro is, that it has support for many "winmodems", including some that have no official packages or drivers in the Debian repository, and also with scripts that automate the tasks of compiling and configuring the necessary modules.
With these features, Kurumin has spread the
Linux
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operating system in Brazil in a level never seen before.
See also
*
Poseidon Linux
Poseidon Linux is a Linux distribution, a complete operating system, originally based on Kurumin, now based on Ubuntu. It is developed and maintained by developers located at the Rio Grande Federal University in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, an ...
, a distribution based on Kurumin
External links
Kurumin official site (in Portuguese)*
Oca do Kurumin (Fansite)LWN: Linux in Brazil
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Knoppix
Portuguese-language Linux distributions
Discontinued Linux distributions
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