Chakra Project
Features
- KDE improved packages
- especially made to get the best KDE experience
- Bundle system for GTK-apps
Main goal is provide a fast, user-friendly and extremely powerful Live CD and/or Linux distribution specially made for the award winning KDE Software Compilation and the beautiful Plasma desktop.
Click here to learn more about our Bundles System, an easy way to enjoy the best must-have Gtk applications without the need to actually install any file in the system.
Chakra provides a modular and tweaked package set of the KDE Software Compilationoptimized for Chakra Linux and coming with a lot of useful additions.
Tools,growing collection of tools for Chakra/KDE, featuring a gui package manager frontend, a LiveCD installer and a bundle creator/manager.
Release Notes
The Chakra Development Team is announce the final Archimedes release, this codename has followed the KDE SC 4.8 series.
As with the previous release, Chakra is no longer shipping a GUI for package management. Appset-qt was the GUI for pacman, but was not handling complex updates as should, so it is dropped from this ISO. In the initial phase of using a built from scratch package manager, there will be no GUI for package management either, so this is a good time to let any user get accustomed to this situation. Pacman is the cli frontend for package management, the online package viewer is there for additional info and searches.
With this release a big move to /usr/lib has occurred to prepare Chakra for a complete move to systemd, kernel is updated to linux-3.4.3, udev to 182, new initscripts used, kmod is at 0.8, mkinitcpio at 0.8.8, to name a few of the newer base packages included. These base updates made the third Archimedes release no longer usable for simple updates, thus a new ISO needed, to avoid that new users are right away confronted with a need to force an update and choose between a lot of replaces. To prepare for the upcoming update to xorg 1.12, the nvidia-96xx legacy driver is dropped from this ISO, and no longer available in the Chakra repo's.
Chakra is offering a DVD version only with this release. It includes all the language packs, many of standard KDE apps, the all new calligra 2.4.2 has replaced libre-office, amarok, kde-telepathy, spideroak , printer support, minitube, k3b to name a few.
With this release we offer:
-KDE 4.8.3
-Linux 3.4.3 (3.0.35 optional)
-Qt 4.8.2
-DVD image, including all locales and a nice selections of apps
-tomoyo-tools 2.5 added to a default install, for more security options
-wqy-microhei became the new default font for Chinese/Japanese/Korean
-QtWebkit 2.2.1
-Updated kmod, filesystem, zlib, udev, util-linux, mesa stack, and too many to list all here
-Move to /usr/lib to prepare for systemd switch
You can install additional packages from repositories.
The Chakra Development Team is announce the final Archimedes release, this codename has followed the KDE SC 4.8 series.
As with the previous release, Chakra is no longer shipping a GUI for package management. Appset-qt was the GUI for pacman, but was not handling complex updates as should, so it is dropped from this ISO. In the initial phase of using a built from scratch package manager, there will be no GUI for package management either, so this is a good time to let any user get accustomed to this situation. Pacman is the cli frontend for package management, the online package viewer is there for additional info and searches.
With this release a big move to /usr/lib has occurred to prepare Chakra for a complete move to systemd, kernel is updated to linux-3.4.3, udev to 182, new initscripts used, kmod is at 0.8, mkinitcpio at 0.8.8, to name a few of the newer base packages included. These base updates made the third Archimedes release no longer usable for simple updates, thus a new ISO needed, to avoid that new users are right away confronted with a need to force an update and choose between a lot of replaces. To prepare for the upcoming update to xorg 1.12, the nvidia-96xx legacy driver is dropped from this ISO, and no longer available in the Chakra repo's.
Chakra is offering a DVD version only with this release. It includes all the language packs, many of standard KDE apps, the all new calligra 2.4.2 has replaced libre-office, amarok, kde-telepathy, spideroak , printer support, minitube, k3b to name a few.
With this release we offer:
-KDE 4.8.3
-Linux 3.4.3 (3.0.35 optional)
-Qt 4.8.2
-DVD image, including all locales and a nice selections of apps
-tomoyo-tools 2.5 added to a default install, for more security options
-wqy-microhei became the new default font for Chinese/Japanese/Korean
-QtWebkit 2.2.1
-Updated kmod, filesystem, zlib, udev, util-linux, mesa stack, and too many to list all here
-Move to /usr/lib to prepare for systemd switch
You can install additional packages from repositories.
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