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| Ark Linux 2005.1 Released with KDE 3.4 |
 Posted by Gary Greene on Saturday 19/Mar/2005, @12:24
from the been-a-long-hard-road dept.
Following the trend of distributions scheduling themselves around KDE releases, Ark Linux has released their first stable version, Ark Linux 2005.1. The goal of Ark Linux is to build the easiest to use GNU/Linux distribution while keeping it technically sane.
Ark Linux 2005.1 is built around the latest desktop technologies, including KDE 3.4, OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 (a preview of 2.0 is also available on the Ark Extra Software CD), glibc 2.3.4, X.Org 6.8.2 and Linux 2.6.11.
The base install CD of Ark Linux contains everything the average desktop user will need - other tools such as compilers and development programmes,
additional games and support for additional languages are available on the
extra CD images "Ark Development Suite", "Ark Extra Software", "Ark Server
Software" and "Ark Extra Languages", and of course in our large online
package repository, easily accessed through the Kynaptic GUI. Experienced
users can use the "apt-get" tool to install software from the repository on
the command line.
Ark Linux 2005.1 can be downloaded from arklinux.org using ftp,
http, BitTorrent or EDonkey.
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really nice
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday 20/Mar/2005, @10:58
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Looks really, really good. Any problems with SUSE (probably arising from former ximian camp), and i'm going for ark instantly.
KDE is probably the only truly free OSS desktop environment at the moment. It's relatively trivial to set it up with any Linux/BSD system, and you get a decent desktop experience with it out of the box. GNOME, as it is today, requires tons of experienced developer time to polish it up to be good enough for daily use. Shame, really.
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Is it just me...
by Aaron Krill on Sunday 20/Mar/2005, @11:42
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Or is using KDE 3.4 a bad idea at this point. I'm running it now, and it seems to me that 3.4 Beta 2 was MUCH more stable than this...
Kopete keeps freezing. Konqueror keeps freezing. Memory leaks are everywhere. its a massacre!
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i'm a developer
by ac on Sunday 20/Mar/2005, @12:16
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I'm a developer and I'm currently using Mandrake. I would like to consider Ark Linux for my future distro. Is it suitable, or only recommended for newbies looking for ease of use?
I currently use LVM and ReiserFS and have certain requirements for what my partitions look like, etc, etc.
All in all Ark Linux looks stunning from the screenshots, I just want to figure out if a non-neophyte will be able to tolerate it. Thanks and good work!
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turkix
by piano on Sunday 20/Mar/2005, @14:12
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"The goal of Ark Linux is to build the easiest to use GNU/Linux distribution while keeping it technically sane"
I don't want to flame a new discussion here but if you look for free, KDE based and easiest to use GNU/Linux distribution, you should also consider Turkix <http://www.turkix.org>. But as for the "technically sane" argument, I have nothing to say.. Just look at these screenshots;
http://www.turkix.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=15&page=2
http://www.turkix.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=36
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Why should I choose ArkLinux
by Idris Samawi Hamid on Monday 21/Mar/2005, @11:26
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I strongly believe in supoprting small businesses and giving startups a chance in this world of total corparatization and globalization. When using Linux I use Suse (now Novell, hence corparatized), and I would like to know what advantages there are to using a startup like ArkLinux instead.
Specifically, what kind of program packages can be used with Ark (debian or RedHat I presume?)? If, for example, Ark is redhat-based, then does it keep in sync with them for program installation purposes? Does Ark make system maintainace as easy as YAST?
What scares me about diving into a new distribution is worries about package installation. I do not use Linux extensively these days:-( but really want to; installing/removing programs remains a big issue for me. I want to jut be able to download e.g., Xine and have it work without fighting dependencies etc. Suse will probably be easier to deal with in this regard, but I want to remain open to other possibilities. I just don't have the time to spend weeks fighting to configure my distribution.
The Ark Website does not seem to answer these questions. Can someone in the know provide some information to these and related questions?
Idris
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