Chakra GNU/Linux 0.3 RC1 Is Available for Testing

The Chakra Development Team announced yesterday, December 10th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the Chakra GNU/Linux 0.3 RC1 operating system, which features the recently released KDE Software Compilation 4.5.4 environment.

Chakra GNU/Linux 0.3 RC1 now features the new Linux kernel 2.6.33.7-3 with LZMA support, KDE SC 4.5.4 and, Xorg Server 1.7.7, ATI Catalyst 10.8 video driver, Nvidia 256 and Nvidia Legacy series video drivers. New locales, such as Catalan, English, Spanish and German, were added to this release.

"Drake and I worked hard the last past days to get tribe ready for this release. Please test Multi-User creation, with all the new features we added."

"Also the Marble-page got a new style and is translated to german, catalan and spanish. The partition-page got enhanced so it will be easier for newcomers to get Chakra GNU/Linux installed. Read the "Build Notes" for further information." - said Phil Miller in the official release announcement.

Highlights of Chakra GNU/Linux 0.3 RC1:

· Linux kernel 2.6.33.7-3 (with LZMA support);
· Updated aufs2 to version 20100514-6;
· KDE Software Compilation 4.5.4;
· Xorg Server 1.7.7;
· ATI Catalyst 10.8 video driver;
· Nvidia 256 and Nvidia Legacy series video drivers.

The following locales were installed:

· Catala;
· Deutsch;
· English;
· Español.

Moreover, users can find and install over 363 new packages added by various Chakra users in the binary repositories.

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.

Download Chakra GNU/Linux 0.3 RC1 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.