14 DAY TRIAL // Chakra GNU/Linux contributor Neofytos Kolokotronis announced the immediate availability of the latest KDE technologies in the stable software repositories of the independently-developed Chakra GNU/Linux operating system.
The Chakra GNU/Linux distribution is always built on top of the latest KDE and Qt technologies, and now users of this Linux-based operating system originally forked from Arch Linux can update to the recently released KDE Plasma 5.10.4 desktop environment, KDE Applications 17.04.3 software suite, and KDE Frameworks 5.36.0 collection of add-on libraries for Qt 5.
"With your next system upgrade, you will receive all the latest versions of KDE’s Plasma, Applications and Frameworks series, as nearly 700 packages have been updated and are now available to you," said Neofytos Kolokotronis in the forum announcement. "These are all stability updates and as usual include mostly bug fixes, translation updates and other minor improvements."
Wine 2.13 is now available as well
Apart from all those shinny new KDE technologies, users of the Chakra GNU/Linux distribution can also install now the recently launched Wine 2.13 development release, which brings a bunch of improvements to the compatibility layer capable of running Windows games and applications on Linux-based and UNIX-like operating systems. Of course, there should be other smaller package updates too.
To receive the goodies mentioned above, all Chakra GNU/Linux users are urged to update their installations as soon as possible by running the "sudo pacman -Syu" command in a terminal emulator or using the graphical package manager of their choice. According to the Chakra GNU/Linux devs, it should be safe to answer "yes" to any replacement question that might be prompted by the package manager. If you don't see these updates, switch to a different mirror.