The subject says it all - the latest and greatest(tm) version of Ark Linux 
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Release notes:

Ark Linux 1.0 alpha 7 release notes
===================================

1. Ark Linux
============

1.1. Important changes since alpha 6
====================================

1.1.1. Important updates
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- XFree86 (the graphics drivers) has been updated to version 4.3.0, with updated
  drivers for SiS and S3 Savage chips.
- KDE (the user interface) has been updated to a version closely resembling
  the upcoming 3.1.1 release.
- glibc (a set of common functions used by every application) has been updated
  to version 2.3.2 - fixing, among other things, the crashes when starting
  Qt designer on some machines.
- The xine media player has been updated to 1.0 beta 8.
- The kernel has been updated to 2.4.21-pre5-ac2 with many additional patches
  to add drivers and to improve the performance of the system.
- Improved XCursor support (colored, transparents and shadowed cursors)
- Improved Resize and Rotate (RandR) support under KDE. It is now possible
  to resize the screen resolution without restarting XFree86.
- For better consistancy, the Gtk/Gnome libraries and packages has been
  renamed. The legacy 1.x versions are now called <name>1 (such as
  glib -> glib1), while the 2.x version is considered the main package
  (glib2 -> glib).
  An extra plus of this change is that apt users will get the what's expected
  when they type "apt-get source glib" - the source to the current version.

1.1.2. Additions
----------------
- Full support for the ALSA sound system has been added, providing drivers for
  additional sound cards.
- USB mouse support has been added to the installer
- Support code for i810 based graphics cards has been added to the installer.
  Since no contributor has access to this type of hardware, this feature is
  completely untested; please let us know whether or not it works.

1.1.3. Removals
---------------
- The mplayer media player has been moved to Ark Extra Software.
- The wine windows emulator has been moved to Ark Extra Software.

1.2. Known problems
===================
- The partitioning and boot manager problems seen by some people in alpha 6
  have not been addressed. The problem is unlikely to show up unless you
  are using a very complex partition layout.
- For other problems, see http://bugzilla.arklinux.org/bugzilla/

2. Ark Development Suite
========================

2.1. Important changes since alpha 6
====================================
- The following packages have been added to the Ark Development Suite:
  - The fltk toolkit (http://www.fltk.org/) has been added.
    fltk is a widget set toolkit, released under the LGPL license.

2.2. Known problems
===================
There are no known problems in Ark Development Suite

3. Ark Extra Software
=====================

3.1. Important changes since alpha 6
====================================
3.1.1 Additions
---------------
- mplayer and wine have been moved to Ark Extra Software from the installation
  CD.
- kdeaccessibility helps disabled people using KDE.
- lyx (http://www.lyx.org/) is a graphical frontend to the LaTeX typesetting
  software, commonly used in the Academic sector
- The juk jukebox and music manager has been added
- The choice of server applications has been completed with
  httpd, mysql, postgresql, nmap, vsftpd, unixODBC, unreal-ircd and nessus.

3.2. Known problems
===================
There are no known problems in Ark Extra Software

4. Feedback
===========
- For more information on Ark Linux, how to contact us, mailing lists, etc,
  please visit:

    http://arklinux.org/

- Please report all bugs/issues to our defect tracking system at:

    https://bugzilla.arklinux.org/

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