Ark Linux

Ark Linux is a free Linux distribution focusing on ease of use and ease of learning, while remaining technically sane. It is sometimes confused with Arch Linux.

Unlike most other distributions, Ark Linux doesn t include numerous different applications for the same task; it picks the best of breed apps.

The Ark Linux core system is one CD that provides everything the typical new desktop user will need, including an office suite, Internet access tools, instant messaging and filesharing clients.

For less commonly needed applications, Ark Linux provides add-on CDs, including Ark Development Suite, Ark Extra Software, Ark Extra Languages, and Ark Server Software - and an online repository of contributed but unsupported software (this includes software that s free to use, but not Open Source, such as NVidia s 3D driver or Macromedia Flash - Ark Linux itself and all official add-ons are 100% Free software and Open Source).

Ark Linux is maintained by a group of volunteers, and accepts new contributors.

For details on versions of currently included software, see e.g. Distrowatch below. (Note that Distrowatch shows all software included on any of the add-on CDs in addition to the software in the core OS; it doesn t show software included in the contrib repository though).

=See also=

*List of Linux distributions *Comparison of Linux distributions

=External links=

*[http://www.arklinux.org/ Ark Linux] *[http://www.distrowatch.com/table.phpdistribution=ark Ark Linux at Distrowatch]