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Chakra GNU/Linux Gets LibreOffice 5.2.1 and KDE Plasma 5.7.4, Vulkan API Support

By Marius Nestor

Chakra GNU/Linux are always getting the latest KDE packages as soon as they’re available upstream, so starting today they can upgrade to the recently released KDE Plasma 5.7.4 desktop environment, includes the bugfixes and improvements, as well as new language translations that the KDE development team was working on during the month of August 2016. Of course, KDE Plasma 5.7.4 is now here alone, and it looks like it brings with it many other updates software projects, among which we can mention the LibreOffice 5.2.1 office suite, Wine 1.9.18 tools for running Windows games and apps, Rust 1.11.0 programming language, FontConfig 2.11.94 tool for configuring fonts, systemd 231 init system, and Mesa 12.0.1 3D Graphics Library.

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