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Chakra - 2010-07-11 - Build: 0711-gtkfree
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The Chakra Developement Team is proud to announce the availability of Phoix

In this a brand new release with our own base!
Over 1000 packages are now available for our new Distribution and over 500 get 
installed by this media.

We all try to give you the best experience Chakra GNU/Linux can give you atm.

You got Kaffeine, K3B, Networkmanager-Plasmoid and other great apps you need to get 
started with our brand new Distribution.

On this image we installed translations for catala, deutsch, english and
español. Even in live-mode you have your translated menues.

It took us some weeks to pull this of, so give us some feedback ;)

Test this build and report back in our forum.
Please don't use this image for productive use.

greez

Phil Miller and the Team behind Chakra GNU/Linux

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Build-Notes

GTK2+

This image is gtk2 free, so you will miss flashplugin in this image. Also you can't
start nvidia-settings since that also needs gtk2. Use nvidia-xconfig instead.
You can always install missing packages with pacman from our repositories.

Read more about gtk-freeness here: http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=2787

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System Requirements:

    * a Intel Pentium II or higher processor
    * 384MiB of RAM for running the live system and 512MiB of RAM for the installation
    * around 3 Gib of available hard disk space (the more the better)
    * a screen capable of 800 x 600 or higher resolution
    * a reasonably fast internet connection, e.g. no modem (would be too slow)

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Most noticeable changes & additions since Alpha5:

Features:

    * Kernel-2.6.33.5-8 with lzma and fbsplash support
    * aufs2-20100514-4
    * KDE SC 4.4.5
    * Xorg-Server 1.7.6
    * Catalyst-10.6
    * NVidia-256 and NVidia legacy series

Installed locales:

    * catala
    * deutsch
    * english
    * español

Total Installed Size:   2160,69 MB

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Known issues:

    Tribe can't create partition-tables on blank disks
    (followed link is one line: "http://chakra-project.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently_E
     ncountered_Problems#Tribe_can.27t_create_partition_tables")

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Changes:

since build [0711]

    * addedpacks updated
      - fbpslash removed
      - rekonq replased with konqueror
      - cinstall updated
    * pacman-conf
      - updated to right repositories

since build [0627]

    * addedpacks updated
      - real 4.4.5 locales added
      - fbsplash updates
      - cinstall updated
    * initscripts
      - updated to 2010.6-2
    * fbsplash-scripts
      - updated to series 2.0
    * kernel26
      - untested patches removed
      - mkinitcpio updated
      
since build [0626]:

    * addedpacks updated
      - kde sc packages updated to 4.4.5
      - k3b updated to 2.0.0
    * chakra-initscripts
      - turkish locales settings fixed

since build [0621]:

    * updated pacman.conf and mirrorlist
    * addedpacks updated
      - kernel26 updated (reiser4, tuxonice, fbsplash)
      - fbsplash stuff added (tribe modded by overlay)
      - updated nvidia to 256.35
      - bangarang, kbluetooth gwenview, kamera, kolourpaint, ksnapshot
        juk and kget removed to hit target

since build [0618]:

    * updated pacman.conf and mirrorlist
    * addedpacks updated
      - shaman2-svn removed
      - cinstall added
      - bangarang, conky and kbluetooth added 

since build [0603]:

    * addedpacks updated
      - kdebase: feature user-image-from-webcam disabled (depends on opencv/gtk2)
      - libindicate rebuilt (gtk2 dependencies removed)
      - kaffeine, okular, gwenview, quassel, shaman2-svn kget, juk readded
      - flashplugin removed (depends on gtk2)
      - ktorrent added
      - vlc removed
    * catalyst updated to 10.6

since build [0531]:

    * addedpacks updated
      - KDE SC updated to 4.4.4

since build [0525]:

    * addedpacks updated
      - partitionmanager added
      - kdemultimedia-juk removed
      - kmail removed
      - kdenetwork pkgs removed
      - debug pkgs removed (not needed)
    * kernel updated
      - all kernel related pkgs got updated
    * pacman.conf updated
      - apps-testing repo added
    * networkmanagement
      - placement of icon in tray fixed
      - autostart of knetworkmanager disabled

since build [0524-r2]:

    * settings updated
      - networkmanagement-plasmoid settings fixed

since build [0524-r1]:

    * addedpacks updated
      - kdegraphics-pkgs removed
      - kmail added
      - debug-pkgs added to fix tribe debug issues
    * networkmanager-plasmoid problem fixed
    * hotkeys- and shortcuts-bindings on installed system fixed
    * rekonq settings in live-mode fixed

since build [0523]:

    * addedpacks updated 
      - rekonq readded
      - konqueror removed
      - unpacker added
    * tribe updated
      - job-download-l10n fixed for real
    * ArchLinux brandings removed

since initial build [0522]:

    * tribe updated
      - fixes and cosmetics
    * addedpacks updated 
      - more font pkgs added
      - networkmanager-plasmoid added
    * bootmenu updated
      - all languages readded

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disc created by Phil Miller (amnon - Chakra ISO-Builder)