His Greek developer Chakra GNU / Linux Neophytos Kolokotronis announced the update of the operating system with the availability of many modern technologies in the main repositories of the operating system.
Chakra GNU/Linux is a distribution that uses the latest KDE software. So OS users can have KDE Plasma 5.9.2 as their environment from today surfaceof work, which is the next maintenance release of the Plasma 5.9 series.
In addition, users of the updated version of the distribution will be able to update to the new KDE Applications 16.12.2 software suite as well as the collection add-ons for Qt5 of KDE Framework 5.26.0.
As part of today's update, users of the distribution will be able to have a new kernei which was upgraded to the Linux kernel 4.5.7. We hope that the developers of Chakra GNU / Linux will soon approve 4.6 Linux kernel.
The new updated distribution includes some of the recent apps: ALSA 1.1.3, FFmpeg 2.8.11, Wine 2.2, GStreamer 1.10.3, Vim 8.0.0142, Mozilla Thunderbird 45.7.1, FileZilla 3.24.0, Bash 4.4.005, Samba 4.5.3, Wireshark 2.2.4, LibreOffice 5.2.5, QEMU 2.8.0, GNU Screen 4.5.0, GNU nano 2.7.4, GDB 7.12, Gawk 4.1.4, GnuTLS 3.5.8, GnuTLS 5.2.12, Gutenprint 0.125.0, JACK 4.2.1, GNU Make 10.1.21, MariaDB 37916, MPlayer 9.6.1, PostgreSQL 2.7.13, Python 7.0.15, PHP 3.16.0, SQLite XNUMX, and GNU Texinfo.
To update, simply open your terminal and run the command “pacman -Syu”, just like for functional system ArchLinux.
According to the developer, if you encounter a problem during the duration of installation (dark screen) you can switch to tty3 with Ctrl+Alt+F3 and then back to Plasma session with Ctrl+Alt+F7. If that doesn't work just wait patiently for the installation to complete without shutting down your computer.
