It's our policy since the beginning of this project to listen to the community and try to keep the communication channels open.


In an attempt to come even closer with our users and in a more direct way, recently new forums for users speaking Brasilian was created under community administration.


You can find the new platform at chakra-br.forumeiros.

Since today the new edition of Linux-User (German edition) is available at your favorite magazine retail store in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Besides other very nice Distro's, the x86_64 DVD version of Chakra GNU/Linux 2011.12 Edn is included in the enclosed complimentary DVD section

Just an excerpt of Linux-User:

"Getreu dem KISS-Prinzip gestalteten die Entwickler die Distribution Chakra 2011.12. Die Distribution nutzt den Linux-Kernel 3.1.4 als Unterbau, KDE 4.7.4 zeichnet als Window-Manager zuständig. Daneben enthält die Distribution aktuelle Versionen des Netzwerkmanagements sowie des Mesa-Stacks."

"Schlankes Desktop-System: Die Entwickler von Chakra 2011.12 gehen keine Kompromisse ein: Eine klare Struktur und intuitive Tools machen die Arbeit mit dem System besonders einfach."

We are pleased to see, Chakra is so well received in the German language area's, and will try to do our best to fulfill your expectations. Please visit the forum, Wiki, and IRC channels to follow the development more closely.

Links

Linux-User Homepage
Linux Community: Linux-User 2012/02
Linux-User Community Edition (free download)

The Chakra-Project-Team

With the decision to freeze the current kernel in stable (linux-3.1.4), until the 3.2 series is ready for the repo's, now is a good time to remind users of the testing repo's how to do so correctly.


At times, a package entered into the testing repo does not confirm to the Chakra expectations, and will be removed. The correct way to have all your packages be part of the current repo's is to use:
sudo pacman -Suu

In this case, it will bring the stable kernel back.