To some people, the increasing number of Linux distributions serves as a disadvante when it comes to attracting new users. To Christopher Smart, it's a plus point - the way he puts it, if he had not been able to roll his own, he never would have achieved the level of understanding of Linux he has today.

Smart is among the few users who has gone the whole hog and developed his own distribution. Based on Gentoo - the distribution which lets you customise everything based on your hardware - it is called Kororaa (Maori for a species of penguin found in Australia and New Zealand). Development has been on hold since November last year for a number of reasons, chief among them being the fact that Smart has cannot put out a binary distribution on his own.

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