• Welcome to Linuxtracker Forums.

[New Torrent] chakra-2013.03-Benz-x86_64.iso

Started by damacas, April 02, 2013, 09:20:18 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

damacas

Chakra - 2013.03 - Benz

With this second release of "Benz" (a code name that will follow the KDE 4.10 series), the Chakra-Project team is very happy to announce a new feature that has been on the wishlist for quite some time. Tribe (the installer) has a netinstaller feature implemented, giving the user the option for a regular offline install, or install fully updated packages, starting with a minimal functional KDE desktop, and adding groups of packages to that minimal install as desired.

KDE is updated to 4.10.1. The over 100 recorded bugfixes since 4.10.0 include improvements to the Personal Information Management suite Kontact, the Window Manager KWin, and others. KDE's Development Platform has received a number of updates that affect multiple applications

For our other tools Kapudan has launchers added and improved systemd units activation handling.
GFXboot has improved keyboard options and for the artwork, the "Dharma Grub" theme is updated.

As for the repositories, there were a large amount of updates to base packages, including Glib2 2.34.3, Networkmanager 0.9.8.0, Iw 3.8, Libffi 3.0.12, Libnl 3.2.21, Db 5.3.21, Apr 1.4.6, with updates to all that depend on these. Calligra 2.6.1, LibreOffice to 4.0.0, Chromium 25.0.1364.152, Firefox 19.01 are among the many applications and bundles updated to their latest version.
The much anticipated Steam has been added to the games repositories.

With our first "Benz" ISO release, we mentioned three major features missing. With the netinstaller in place, we are down to two, most obvious is no GUI for package management and Tribe's partition page is missing the Solid integration, needed to have automated partitioning and support for LVM, RAID, LUKS and the likes, which we know are needed for a complete, modern installer.

To create reliable installation media, please follow the instructions in the wiki. Chakra's ISO's do not support unetbootin, and DVDs need a burn speed no higher than 4x.