After three years of development, the Ark Linux team has released its first officially "stable" distribution. Ark Linux 2005.1 is based on Linux kernel 2.6.11 and boasts the "latest desktop technologies," including KDE 3.4, OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 (a preview of 2.0 is also available), glibc 2.3.4, and X.Org 6.8.2.
According to the Ark Linux co-founder Bernhard Rosenkraenzer, "the goal of Ark Linux is to build the easiest to use Linux distribution for people converting from That Other Operating System, while keeping it technically sane."
"The base install CD of Ark Linux contains everything the average desktop user will need," according to Rosenkraenzer's announcement of the release of Ark Linux 2005.1. "Other tools -- for example, compilers and development tools, additional games, and support for additional languages, are available on the extra CD images known as 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," continues Rosenkraenzer. "Experienced users can use the 'apt-get' tool to install software from the repository on the command line."
Ark Linux 2005.1 is available for download from the project's website via ftp, http, BitTorrent, or EDonkey, Rosenkraenzer says.
For further background on the Ark Linux project, be sure to read our March 2003 interview with Ark Linux co-founder Bernhard Rosenkraenzer.
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