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 from today Plasma 5.9.2 as a desktop environment, 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, distribution users will also be able to have a new kernei which has been upgraded to Linux kernel 4.5.7. We hope that the GNU / Linux Chakra developers will soon adopt the Linux 4.6 kernel.
The new updated distribution also includes some of the recent ones applications: 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, Gutenprint 5.2.12, JACK 0.125.0, GNU Make 4.2.1, MariaDB 10.1.21, MPlayer 37916, PostgreSQL 9.6.1, Python 2.7.13, PHP 7.0.15, SQLite 3.16.0 .XNUMX, and GNU Texinfo.
To update, simply open your terminal, run the command "pacman -Syu", just like for the Arch Linux operating system.
According to the developer, if you experience a problem during installation (dark screen) you can change to tty3 with Ctrl + Alt + F3 and then back to the Plasma session with Ctrl + Alt + F7. If this does not work just wait patiently until installation is complete without shutting down your computer.
