Codename Archimedes- The First release of Chakra KDE 2012-02-12 is here | Linux Today

Codename Archimedes- The First release of Chakra KDE 2012-02-12 is here

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 13, 2012

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The first release of the KDE 4.8 series of Chakra has
been released , codename Archimedes, Chakra GNU/Linux featuring
Linux 3.2 and KDE 4.8. 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.


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