[CS-FSLUG] Re: Ark Linux 2005.1 released

[N. Thompson]

I had to send this as a reply because when I tried to forward it, it was 
blocked by a filter due to the eml extension.

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:

>After 3 years of development and testing, the Ark Linux team have decided to 
>release the first stable version, Ark Linux 2005.1.
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>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.
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>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 kernel 2.6.11.
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>The base insall CD of Ark Linux contains everything the average desktop user 
>will need - other tools, for example compilers and development tools, 
>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.
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>Ark Linux 2005.1 can be downloaded from http://www.arklinux.org/ using ftp, 
>http, BitTorrent or EDonkey.
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