Tux Reports: Ark Linux, Taking Penguins on a Ride to the Future

“Installation begins from the CD. It is graphical with a text
install being developed. After setting the language, there are
three choices provided: system install, express install, and
parallel install. The system install uses the complete hard drive
and took approximately 40 minutes to complete on our 500 MHz
celeron. Most of the time was spent losing at a game of tetris;
however, a trip to the store and back occured because I couldn’t
imagine just sitting and staring at the monitor. The others were
not tried but I saw discussions about problems with Windows. So be
careful.

“There was one step that caught me off guard. As soon as the
installation was done there was a message that said it was okay to
turn off the machine. I didn’t see a way to just click a button for
restarting the system nor a way to eject the cd. The developer for
the script explained that installer2 will have not only text but a
popup dialog for restarting the system.

“After grub is loaded and KDE starts, Ark Linux does an
autologin using the default user arklinux. This user id is disabled
but a tool called kapabilities allows the login to occur. It also
allows the user to install software without access to root. Instead
of a login prompt, a new user is greeted with the KDE
desktop…”

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