Saturday, January 28. 2012COMUMIDADE BRASILEIRA DE USUÃRIOS DO CHAKRA LINUX It's our policy since the beginning of this project to listen to the community and try to keep the communication channels open. In an attempt to come even closer with our users and in a more direct way, recently new forums for users speaking Brasilian was created under community administration. You can find the new platform at chakra-br.forumeiros. Thursday, January 19. 2012Chakra 2011.12 in the current Linux-User.de 2012/02
We are pleased to see, Chakra is so well received in the German language area's, and will try to do our best to fulfill your expectations. Please visit the forum, Wiki, and IRC channels to follow the development more closely.
Sunday, January 15. 2012Correct use of the [testing] repo
Saturday, December 31. 2011Happy New Year Everybody !!! The Chakra New Year We Wish in 2012
The Chakra Project Team Saturday, December 24. 2011We wish you a Merry Christmas The Chakra christmas Oh, holy night, KDE is brightly shining It is the night of our dear Chakra's birth Long lay the world in sin and error, pining Till KDE appeared and the soul felt it's worth A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn' Fall on your knees, oh, hear the Angels' voices Oh, night divine, oh, night when Chakra was born  Best Wishes from the Chakra Project Team Tuesday, December 20. 2011The Chakra-Gtk-Config KCM as been moved to KDEChakra Gtk Config is now KDE Gtk Configurator, the development has been taken by Aleix Pol, KDE developer and moved upstream. Our package Gtk-Integration will be modified soon providing the new version of this KCM. Tuesday, December 20. 2011Chakra hits 6th place out of 25 fastest-growing projects In the December mailing, the Community Team of sf.net listed the 25 fastest-growing projects. However, It is neglected to say what those projects actually were. Their names got listed and linked to them, and that was it. Several people wrote to complain about this omission. It is sured not to be repeated in the months to come. Meanwhile, here’s a more useful list. These are the 25 projects that grew the fastest in November, where “growth†is defined as downloads. We acknowledge that this is not the most accurate way to measure project growth. Other factors, such as commits, number of participants on the mailing lists, number of tickets opened and closed, might more accurately reflect actual project growth. Downloads has the advantage of being easier to measure. We are, however, working on various ways to measure project health objectively, and hope to have something to show for it early next year. Blog: 25 fastest-growing projects Sunday, December 18. 2011Chakra 2011.12 (Edn - Third Release) out In the search for the best release schedule for a semi-rolling Distro, the Chakra-Project team decided in August to follow a simple routine of basing the release schedule loosely on the KDE SC release model. With this third and final Edn release, we are confident, this is the correct way to go. As with any rolling Distro, there is no final ISO, every ISO is just a snapshot of the stable repo's at that time. Edn was based on KDE 4.7, 4.7.4 is the final of this series, and with 4.8 a new name will be introduced. You can read the release notes for the major changes in this release, some minor enhancements you will find include a default search engine set in Rekonq, a switch to icontasks as panel task-manager, the inclusion of Tomyo-tools to provide an UI for MAC hardening and a switch to Tomahawk for music player on the DVD. Hopefully 2012 will bring the needed finishing touches to Tribe, and the introduction of Akabei as the package manager. Release notes: The Chakra Development Team is proud to announce the third and final release of Edn, Chakra GNU/Linux featuring Linux 3.1 and KDE 4.7. Edn has followed the KDE 4.7 releases, and with KDE 4.8 a new name will be used. With this release KDE is updated to 4.7.4, kernel to Linux 3.1.4. The sound group has been rebuild/updated, latest networkmanagement and mesa-stack are also included. Chakra is now offering a DVD and CD version. The CD version is to get 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 3.4.4, tomahawk, xbmc, calibre, printer support, minitube, k3b to name a few. With this release we offer:
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. A good start is to read our Wiki or visit our Forums. To create reliable installation media, please follow the instructions in the wiki. Chakra's ISO's do not support unetbootin, and CD/DVD's need a burn speed no higher then 4x. Links: Download: Images at SourceForge Wiki: bootable USB-FlashDrive creation Wiki: Alternate bootable USB-FlashDrive creation Chakra Beginners Guide Wednesday, December 7. 2011KDE 4.7.4 announcement, large package move to stable The last release of the KDE 4.7.4 series has past the tests, and is moving to stable. This was largely a bug fix release, don't expect any new features.Along with this move a few other groups (network, gdbm, mesa updates), which have been tested a longer time have moved to stable. All in all, close to 800 packages have moved, needless to say, this is an update to perform with sudo pacman -Syu, read the instructions/questions pacman poses carefully, and this should be a smooth update. There are some replaces, answer questions about those with "yes". Do not use appset-qt for these kind of updates, the replaces are not always handled correctly by appset-qt. Tuesday, December 6. 2011The road to the ultimate Gtk integration Sometimes integrating your Gtk applications with the Plasma Workspaces is not easy, that's why we created some time ago a K Control Module called Chakra-Gtk-Config which makes it possible to configure your Gtk Bundles and applications without actually having installed the Gtk package in your system.KDE already started an interesting project, the awesome engine called Oxygen Gtk which is a perfect clone of the Qt Oxygen engine for Gtk. The missing puzzle piece is a proper icon theme, a real clone of the Oxygen Icons theme completely suitable for Gtk and Gtk based DE, and here it is. The Oxygen Gtk Icons Theme started using as base the theme Oxygen Refit2, a very complete Gtk icons set, specially made to fit 1:1 the KDE default icons set. You can test the whole pack installing our gtk-integration package, available for testing at our [testing] repository. Friday, December 2. 2011Update warning for catalyst users A bug in Tribe (which is found and fixed, but won't be visible until the next ISO), caused that nouveau-dri is not removed on installs were users select the catalyst driver for their install. This is causing a conflict now with updating catalyst, giving an error that catalyst-utils and libgl are in conflict.To correct this issue, please remove nouveau-dri, when you run a system with ATI/Radeon graphics, and the catalyst driver: sudo pacman -R nouveau-dri Monday, November 21. 2011KDE SC 4.8 Pre-Release 1 KDE 4.8 Series entered now into the testing phase. The Chakra Project is working close with KDE Developers to get it as stable as possible from the get go. It will bring some new features. The release schedule you can find here. Enable [kde-unstable]in your /etc/pacman.conf by placing it above all other repositories you have already activated. You will need to have [testing] enabled too. If you find any bugs please use our bugtracker so we can fix them fast. This is also a first test to use the build-server --so generously donated by Zeiva-- for a complete compile of KDE i686, so this is a first cross compile, that has made it into the repo's. Extra checking for i686 is a must for this test. It however takes almost 8 hours of a standard local build/upload of KDE....... Forums post for KDE 4.8 Pre-Releases Monday, November 21. 2011Calligra is replacing Koffice in Chakra After almost a year in unstable, Calligra is finally moving to testing for Chakra, thus replacing koffice as the official office application for the Chakra KDE SC. Even-though Calligra has not reached the official "Stable" status yet, all tests are putting it ahead of Koffice (which has not received any updates for too long to be rightfully in the stable repo's). Twenty two language packs are available too, though don't expect the translations to be fully done for many yet. As always, this package will be in the testing repo's for about a week. If no show-stoppers found in that time, expect it to be available in the stable repo's next weekend. Saturday, November 19. 2011The Chakra Project is going socialIt's our policy since the beginning of this project to listen to the community and try to keep the communication channels open. In an attempt to come even closer with our users and in a more direct way, we recently created official accounts on several social media sites, where you can keep up with all the news and updates about your favourite distribution. So in addition to the IRC and the Forums, you can now find us also on: Diaspora, Identi.ca, Twitter, Google Plus, Facebook. Monday, November 14. 2011Initscripts 2011.11 with new locale handlingAfter our second release of Edn we now also update our initscripts. Migrating more to systemd we changed the locale handling: /etc/profile.d/locale.sh is now a static file that sources the correct config files in order to set your locale, rather than being generated at boot. The benefit of this is one less write to /etc, and it allows changes to the locale to take effect without rebooting (just relogin). We add support for /etc/locale.conf. The settings in this file takes precedence over /etc/rc.conf, and those who use shells that cannot source /etc/rc.conf are required to move to this new format. /etc/locale.conf contains a new-line separated list of variable assignments. The variables we support are LANG as well as the LC_* variables (with the exception of LC_ALL). The format is shared with systemd. More detailed information you can find in our forum |
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