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

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:

• - KDE 4.7.4
  
• - Linux 3.1.4 (2.6.35.14 optional)
  
• - Updated sound-stack
  
• - DVD image, including all locales and a nice selections of apps
  
• - minimal CD image you can build your desktop on
  
• - tomoyo-tools 2.5 added to a default install, for more security options
  
• - wqy-microhei became the new default font for Chinese/Japanese/Korean
  
• - QtWebkit 2.2
  
• - updated initscripts with the option to test systemd
  
• - updated mesa-stack
  

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.

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Links:

Download: Images at SourceForge
Wiki: bootable USB-FlashDrive creation
Wiki: Alternate bootable USB-FlashDrive creation
Chakra Beginners Guide