[New Torrent] Chakra 2012.02 Archimedes

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Chakra - 2012-02-12 - Archimedes
The Chakra Development Team is proud to announce the first release of the KDE 4.8 series, codename Archimedes, Chakra GNU/Linux featuring Linux 3.2 and KDE 4.8.

After well over 100.000 downloads of Edn it is the goal to continue the further growth of Chakra into a mainstay distro. With this release KDE is updated to 4.8.0, kernel to Linux 3.2.2. A new theme, Ronak is introduced. Updated Qt, boost, subversion, phonon packages, libxcb stack to name a few of the newer base packages included. A switch to GRUB2 has been decided on, to be more compatible with any other Operating System.

Chakra is now offering a DVD and CD version. The CD version gets you to a minimal working KDE desktop, with only a text-editor, file-manager, web-browser and a simple media player installed, no further apps, no language packs. The DVD version includes all the language packs, most of standard KDE apps, libre-office 3.4.5, amarok, kde-telepathy, spideroak , printer support, minitube, k3b to name a few.

With this release we offer:

    KDE 4.8.0
    Linux 3.2.2 (2.6.35.14 optional)
    Qt 4.8
    DVD image, including all locales and a nice selections of apps
    minimal CD image you can build your desktop on
    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 initscripts with the option to test systemd
    Boost 1.48, switch to GRUB2

You can install additional packages from our repositories.

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.

A good start is to read our Wiki or visit our Forums. If you are from Italy or speak Italian, we recommend our partner page chakra-project.it.
To create reliable installation media, please follow the instructions in the wiki. Chakra's ISO's do not support unetbootin, and for CD/DVD need a burn speed no higher then 4x.

Other features to mention:

    Xorg 7.6 Stack with Mesa 7.11.2 and Xorg-Server 1.10.4
    Updated Xorg Drivers
    switch from heimdal to krb5 (including rebuilds of depending pkgs)
    fixes for kvm and virtualbox
    updated networkmanagement

Read the \"Build Notes\" for further information.

All the best

The Chakra GNU/Linux Developers Team
Build-Notes
Changes in core:

    Many tools packages updated
    Kernel updates for 3.2 series
    Initscripts updates
    grub2 updates
    Boost 1.48

Changes in platform:

    Hardware detection updated
    Driver updates
    Xorg-Server fixes
    libxcb-stack updated

Changes in desktop:

    KDE SC updated to 4.8.0
    Calligra has replaced Koffice as the default KDE office-suite
    Networkmanagement updated

Changes in Apps:

    Addition of the new kde-telepathy packages
    A gtk2 free libreoffice is available

System Requirements

    a Intel Pentium II or higher processor or AMD64-ready CPU for 64bit
    512MiB (1024MiB recommneded) of RAM for running the live system and 1024MiB of RAM for the installation
    around 3 Gib of available hard disk space, 5 Gib for DVD install
    a screen capable of 1024 x 600 or higher resolution
    a reasonably fast internet connection, e.g. no modem (would be too slow)

Most noticeable changes & additions since Edn
Features

    Kernel-3.2.2 with lzma2 support
    aufs3-20120109 kernel integrated
    KDE SC 4.8.0
    Qt 4.8
    Boost 1.48
    GRUB2
    NVidia-295 and NVidia legacy series

Known issues

    html5 not working on all nvidia non-free, unless switching to a different phonon backend, all other gfx are correct in html5
    Some ALPS touchpad's are not supported
    When trying to install vlc in live-mode, it will not run, no such issue on installed system
    Some Radeon/ATI cards do not support suspend/hibernate with non-free drivers
    When choosing the second tab in the welcome-plasmoid, text will overflow. For aesthetics, the current lay-out is the nicest, reasonable size on start-up of live mode. Clicking on another tab, will clean the text overflow. The text in that one tab is too important for finally trying to stop misconceptions about Chakra.

We expect some more ... Tell us when you find them ...