Is Chakra just a LiveCD or is it fundamentally different than Arch + KDE4Mod ?

Phin666 · 08-11-2009, 08:10 AM

First of all I am a KDE fan. I currently use Kubuntu and have for about 2.5 years. So naturally I keep looking for a better KDE centric distro. Everything I have read points to Arch being the best KDE distro out there. I don't mind the CLI aspect of it, and I am actually hoping to learn how to use it better. So I thought Arch would be a good distro to satisfy those two needs.

My question is the same as my subject line. I have read the Chakra About page, but it sounds like it is only a Live CD version of Arch with KDE4 and Shaman already configured. It says it is alpha software, but did I read it correctly that it means only the installer is alpha? Can I get the same thing by just doing a normal Arch install and then adding the KDEMod repositories?

Phin666 · 08-18-2009, 02:53 PM

pixellany · 08-18-2009, 05:30 PM

Generally, bumping your own threads is frowned on. Some members will periodically go thru the "zero-reply" list to try and help with the stragglers. Bumping just takes you off that list.

One reason for the slow response is that this is a fairly obscure question.

Chakra is pretty new: I don't know that much about it, but why not simply try it? (I don't think it is LiveCD only.)

What is good is that kdemod is being preserved for both kde 3.5.x and for 4.x.x

Arch + kdemod 3.5.10 is a really nice combination----I'm not clear on why we need Chakra---time will tell.

Ferpecto · 08-26-2009, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by The Chakra Project

Goals

Our goal with Chakra is to provide a operating system for desktops that is easy to use, but still has all the functionality, clarity, power and speediness of a KISS operating system. In the long term, we want to build an operating system based on Arch Linux that meets most requirements desktop users have today, like easy installation of software, graphical system administration, configuring power management on mobile devices or sharing an internet connection. To be better able to fulfill this goal, we strongly rely on users who report bugs, send in feature requests and ideas for improvements, and of course participate in development.

Although this might sound like a distro for Linux newbies, these are not our primary target audience, at least not for the moment. Chakra is made for techy people and competent GNU/Linux users with a passion for KDE, KISS and such stuff, who dont fear to get their hands dirty but want to set up a usable desktop system quickly and easily.

KISS plus KDE... lol