14 DAY TRIAL // Phil Miller proudly announced a few minutes ago, October 27th, the immediate availability for download of the stable Chakra GNU/Linux 2011.10.26 operating system.
Chakra GNU/Linux 2011.10.26 is now powered by Linux kernel 3.0.7 and X.Org 7.6, as well as the latest KDE Software Compilation 4.7.2 environment, updated toolchain, and WebGL and HTML5 support for Qt/KDE web-browsers.
"For all our GTK fans we added some more popular GTK-apps as bundles. You can download them from our bundle page and run them with a simple double-click right away. More about it you can read here."
"If you miss one package you need you can take a look at the Chakra Community Repo where our users add additonal PKGBUILDs you can simply compile from source tarballs or install with AppSet. Read the CCR User Guidelines to get started." - said Phil Miller in the announcement.
Highlights of Chakra GNU/Linux 2011.10.26:
· Linux kernel 3.0.7; · KDE Software Compilation 4.7.2; · X.Org 7.6; · Xorg-Server 1.10.4; · Mesa 7.11; · Updated X.Org drivers; · Updated GCC to version 4.6.1; · Updated glibc to version 2.14.1; · Tribe was ported for KDE SC 4.7 series; · Updated DBus; · QtWebkit 2.2; · The initscripts were updated with an option to test systemd; · mesa-stack was updated; · Switched from heimdal to krb5 (includes rebuilds of depending packages); · The Burg theme was fixed; · Burg now saves the last boot-state; · VirtualBox and KVM fixes; · NetworkManagemer was updated; · A minimal ISO image is now provided to build your desktop on!
Chakra GNU/Linux was originally based on Arch Linux but, while some of the underlying architecture and the package manager remain the same, packages from Arch are not compatible with Chakra.
Chakra uses the KDE desktop environment and a half-rolling release model, meaning that the core software is updated less often and is considered stable, while everything non-essential is updated frequently to ensure that users always run the latest applications.
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