Chakra Alpha 2

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The second alpha of Chakra was released for some days ago. Notice this is alpha so !caution! do not use in production environments etc etc.

Chakra is a new distrobution which can be summed up as: ArchLinux+KDEmod+user friendly

The new alpha has KDE4.2, Koffice 2 beta6, Amarok 2.0.1 as default

Enjoy :)

http://chakra-project.org/download-iso.html#releaseinfo

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:thumb:
will be giving this a try ; how could you not ? : as per the description:
-{ Quote: "Chakra is a free, user-friendly and extremely powerful liveCD and/or operating system based on the award winning K Desktop Environment and on the GNU/Linux distribution for connoisseurs: Arch Linux. With rolling releases, freshly cooked packages, our graphical tools and a small but strong and diverse community, it is the computing environment you may have been waiting for. Our and Arch's community-driven development is grounded in the concept of KISS, which has been proven to be superior for people who really want to learn something about Linux or dont want to deal with administrative overhead, or are just lazy nerds like ourselves...
" }-:D

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OK
Loaded this into VMWARE Workstation 6.5
HAs gone very VERY VERY well for an alpha desktop
Very well instituted KDE
Functional Arch modded live CD and very nice installer
Heh heh no guarantees re no bugs ;D
( aahhh pacman :) worked when I needed it )
Its late here
I've posted my rudimentary observations here
http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=439
maybe more tomorrow
I've really got too much free time atm :wacko:

Ha: linux nerds with a SOH eeeek :o
-{ Quote: "No warranties, either express or implied, are hereby given for anything provided by the Chakra Project ("Software"). All software is supplied as is, without any guarantee. The user assumes all responsibility for damages resulting from the use of the software, including, but not limited to, frustration, disgust, system abends, disk head-crashes, general malfeasance, floods, fires, shark attack, locust infestation, cyclones, hurricanes, tsunamis, local electromagnetic disruptions, hydraulic brake system failure, invasion, hashing collisions, normal wear and tear of friction surfaces, cosmic radiation, inadvertent destruction of sensitive electronic components, windstorms, the riders of nazgul, infuriated chickens, premature activation of a distant early warning system, peasant uprisings, halitosis, artillery bombardment, explosions, cave-ins, borg-assimilation, america bringing democracy to your country and/or frogs falling from the sky." }-
-{ Quote: "shark attack" }-even got us down here in mind ;)

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Interesting:
Lot of interest here at my ISP dl/mirror site: 47 done since last night thats a lot.

[andb]

I have been using ArchLinux+KDEmod now for a couple of years and as soon i heard about chakra i knew i had to try it out. So i jumped on alpha1 directly when it got released and while it was kinda buggy i really liked it.

Now when alpha2 has been released i see alot of improvement, which many comes from kde4.2 of course but also to their own programs such as shaman (even though i only use the cli), arxin, tribe etc.

It's still not entirely perfect, i don't think any distro will be until at least kde4.4 is released. But at least now i have removed ubuntu which i dual booted before and dedicated my computer entirely to Chakra and KDE (iam sure i will install ubuntu once again when 9.04 gets released, can't help it, ubuntu is a great distro) :)