Chakra GNU/Linux 0.3.0 Features KDE SC 4.5.4

Phil Miller announced yesterday, December 20th, the immediate availability for download of the final version of the Chakra GNU/Linux 0.3.0 operating system, which features the amazing KDE Software Compilation 4.5.4 environment.

Dubbed Ashoc, Chakra GNU/Linux 0.3.0 features a brand new Linux kernel 2.6.35.9 with LZMA support and aufs2 version 20101206. The KDE Software Compilation 4.5.4 environment, Xorg Server 1.7.7, ATI Catalyst 10.8 video driver, Nvidia 260 and Nvidia Legacy series video drivers are also part of this release.

"This will be one of the best X-Mas presents we created. Santa brings you the third stable release of Chakra GNU/Linux, codenamed Ashoc, under your tree."

"This image features the brand new KDE SC 4.5.4 plus the option to install our popular Click'n'Run apps thru tribe. We from Chakra worked hard the last months to get all slick and smooth. We updated all our tools and fixed lots of bugs you and we found. Tribe can create now more than one user account again. This time you can add your personal avatar to each account." - said Phil Miller in the official release announcement.

Highlights of Chakra GNU/Linux 0.3.0:

· Linux kernel 2.6.35.9 (with LZMA support);
· Updated aufs2 to version 20101206;
· KDE Software Compilation 4.5.4;
· Xorg Server 1.7.7;
· ATI Catalyst 10.8 video driver;
· Nvidia 260 and Nvidia Legacy series video drivers;
· Support for Run'n'Click apps;
· Tribe Live Installer;
· Cinstall package manager.

Moreover, users can find and install over 378 new packages added by various Chakra users in the binary repositories.

"The first time you can customize your installation. We added two lists of our popular packages and bundles to choose from. Tribe got translated to catalan, german, italian and spanish. [...] Getting Gimp and other "must have" non-Qt/KDE apps into Chakra you can use CBS - the bundle system was created exclusively for Chakra." - added Phil Miller in the announcement for Chakra GNU/Linux 0.3.0.

About Chakra

Chakra is a free GNU/Linux distribution born from Arch Linux, based on a half-rolling release model focused on KDE software. Chakra's repositories are full of binary packages for KDE, Qt and CLI applications, and there is also a bundle system for other applications.

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