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| About Ark Linux
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| Ark Linux is a Linux distribution designed especially for desktop use, primarily for people without prior Linux experience. Its main goal is ease of use, and the inclusion of many tools end users will need. Ark Linux is fully Open Source and Free Software, meaning, basically, you can freely redistribute it in both modified and unmodified form.
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Ark Linux |
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http://www.arklinux.org/ |
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http://groups.google.com/group/arklinux-support |
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http://forum.arklinux.org/ |
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http://wiki.arklinux.org/ |
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http://www.arklinux.org/?q=node/17 • DistroWatch Torrent Archive |
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| 2008-05-15 |
Distribution Release: Ark Linux 2008.1 |
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Bernhard Rosenkraenzer has announced the release of Ark Linux 2008.1, an easy-to-use desktop Linux distribution with KDE and a selection of highly up-to-date applications: "The Ark Linux team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Ark Linux 2008.1, a new version of its easy-to-use, easy-to-learn operating system. Contrary to our original plan for this release, we have decided to make one more release based on KDE 3.x, to provide a stable state-of-art system that fixes all known problems with earlier versions before the big move to KDE 4.x. Major changes from the last release include updates to KDE 3.5.9, kernel 2.6.25.3, glibc 2.8 and wine 1.0-rc1, building everything with GCC 4.3 for improved performance, greatly extended hardware support, and the addition of Gnash, a free player for Flash animations." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5) the live or installation CD image from here: arklinux-2008.1.iso (694MB), arklinux-live-2008.1.iso (601MB).
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| 2007-08-17 |
Distribution Release: Ark Linux 2007.1 |
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Ark Linux 2007.1 has been released: "The Ark Linux team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Ark Linux 2007.1, the latest version of its multi-purpose desktop operating system. Ark Linux can be used for office/school work, desktop publishing, graphics, multimedia entertainment, editing, gaming, software development, and more. There have been many changes since the 2006.1 release - all components have been updated to current versions. For example, Ark Linux 2007.1 includes the KDE 3.5.7 desktop, the OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 office suite and the Amarok music player 1.4.7. It also includes the latest underlying technologies such as Linux kernel 2.6.22.3, glibc 2.6.1, and has been built completely with GCC 4.2.1, resulting in a faster system and quicker response times." See the full release announcement for further details. Download (MD5) the installation or live CD image: arklinux-2007.1.iso (699MB), arklinux-live-2007.1.iso (642MB).
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| 2007-07-15 |
Development Release: Ark Linux 2007.1 RC1 |
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The Ark Linux team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Ark Linux 2007.1-rc1: "There have been many changes since the previous 2006.1 release - all components have been updated to current versions (for example, Ark Linux 2007.1-rc1 includes KDE 3.5.7, OpenOffice.org 2.2.1, Linux 2.6.22-rc6, glibc 2.6, and has been built completely with gcc 4.2), hardware detection has been improved, many new drivers are included, and many additional applications and games have been added to our software repository." Find more in the official release announcement. Download the installation and live CDs (MD5): arklinux-2007.1-rc1.iso (694MB, available via BitTorrent), arklinux-live-2007.1-rc1.iso (636MB, also available via BitTorrent).
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| 2006-08-03 |
Distribution Release: Ark Linux 2006.1 |
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The Ark Linux team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Ark Linux 2006.1: "There have been numerous changes since the last release. Highlights include KDE 3.5.4, the current version of X.Org and amaroK 1.4.1, and a new tool, "rpmhandler", that makes installing 3rd party packages easier than ever -- and we've fixed numerous bugs, especially in the Live version." Find more on the project's website. Download the installation or live CD from here (MD5): arklinux-2006.1.iso (698MB), arklinux-live-2006.1.iso (668MB, also available via BitTorrent).
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| 2006-06-01 |
Development Release: Ark Linux 2006.1 RC2 |
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Bernhard Rosenkraenzer has announced the second release candidate for Ark Linux 2006.1: "The Ark Linux team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Ark Linux 2006.1-rc2 and Ark Linux Live 2006.1-rc2. This is the last release candidate of Ark Linux 2006.1, which will be released as soon as OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 and kernel 2.6.17 are released and integrated. The current release candidate includes pre-release versions of those. There have been numerous changes since the first release candidate. Highlights include KDE 3.5.3, X.Org 7.1 and amaroK 1.4.0a - and we've fixed numerous bugs." Read the rest of the release announcement for a complete list of major changes. Download the installation or live CD from here (MD5): arklinux-2006.1-rc2.iso (701MB), arklinux-live-2006.1-rc2.iso (668MB).
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| 2006-04-28 |
Development Release: Ark Linux Live Alpha |
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Bernhard Rosenkraenzer has announced the first alpha release of Ark Linux Live, a new live CD designed primarily for recovery and demonstration purposes: "The Ark Linux team is pleased to announce the release of a first version of Ark Linux Live, a Live CD edition of the Ark Linux operating system. Ark Linux Live is designed to be as close to the 'normal' version of Ark Linux as possible - and is built from the same source code. There are a couple of known problems with this CD image, most notably non-English languages do not work in non-KDE applications, and the kernel spews some [harmless but dangerous looking] error messages at boot-up." Find more information in the release announcement. Download: arklinux-live.iso (650MB), also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2006-03-18 |
Development Release: Ark Linux 2006.1 RC1 |
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The first release candidate of Ark Linux 2006.1 is now available for download: "The Ark Linux team is pleased to announce the release of Ark Linux Home 2006.1-rc1 - the first (and, unless major problems turn up, last) release candidate of Ark Linux Home 2006.1. Ark Linux Home 2006.1-rc1 includes the latest developments of the Linux desktop world, such as KDE 3.5.1, OpenOffice.org 2.0.2, amaroK 1.4 beta 2, Kopete 0.12 beta 1, X.Org 7.0, GCC 4.1, and glibc 2.4. In addition to updating the underlying technologies, we have improved hardware support - to our knowledge, Ark Linux Home 2006.1-rc1 is the first free Linux distribution to support 3D acceleration on ATI PCI Express cards...." Here is the full release announcement. Download: arklinux-2006.1-rc1.iso (678MB, MD5).
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| 2006-02-12 |
Development Release: Ark Linux 2006.1 Snapshot |
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A development snapshot of the upcoming Ark Linux 2006.1 has been released for download and testing: "A new development snapshot of the soon-to-be Ark Linux 2006.1 is ready for testing. This release differs from Ark Linux 2005.2 mostly in the underlying technology (such as upgrades to X.Org 7.0, KDE 3.5.1, glibc 2.3.90 and GCC 4.1-svn), numerous bug fixes, and improved hardware support (most notably, many ATI PCI Express cards now support 3D acceleration out of the box. The snapshot can be found in the dockyard-devel/iso directory of your favorite Ark Linux mirror. Please give it some testing and report bugs before we call it 2006.1." Here is the complete release announcement. Download: arklinux.iso (680MB, MD5).
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| 2005-12-10 |
Distribution Release: Ark Linux 2005.2 |
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A new major version of Ark Linux, an easy-to-use distribution designed for non-technical users, was released today: "The Ark Linux team is pleased to announce the release of Ark Linux 2005.2. The highlights of this release include: an upgrade to the KDE 3.5 desktop; OpenOffice.org has been upgraded to version 2.0; 3D acceleration on ATI Radeon 9600 and 9800 based hardware is now supported; handling of auto running inserted CDs and DVDs has been improved; hardware support has been improved; unsupported PCI / wireless network cards can now automatically be configured to use a Windows XP driver through the Ndiswrapper emulation layer; some USB printers are configured fully automatically...." More details are available in the long press release. Download: arklinux-2005.2.iso (686MB, MD5); also available via BitTorrent.
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