Chakra GNU/Linux Users Get LibreOffice 5.2.4, Rust 1.14.0, and Mesa 3D 12.0.3 | Linux Today

Chakra GNU/Linux Users Get LibreOffice 5.2.4, Rust 1.14.0, and Mesa 3D 12.0.3

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Marius Nestor
Dec 26, 2016

If you’ve been waiting for a new, big update of your Chakra GNU/Linux distribution, here it is. It includes many of the latest applications and technologies, including Linux kernels 4.8.6 and 3.16.38 LTS, the LibreOffice 5.2.4 office suite, GRUB 2.02 Beta 3 bootloader, as well as KDE Frameworks 5.29.0 and linux-firmware 20161005.9c71af9. The list of goodies included in this last major update for Chakra GNU/Linux continues with the SDDM 0.14.0.r26.17ccb31 display manager, FFmpeg 2.8.9 multimedia backend, CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) 2.2.1, CMake 3.7.1 compiler, Rust 1.14.0 programming language, Vim 8.0.0086 text editor, and Steam 1.0.0.54.

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Marius Nestor

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