The distribution also features the latest Firefox and Thunderbird

Jul 20, 2012 07:52 GMT  ·  By

Vine Linux, a distribution with a highly customized Japanese environment in which a lot of applications supporting Kanji-Strings are included, is now at version 6.1 RC2.

Highlights of Vine Linux 6.1 RC2:

· Linux kernel was updated to version 3.0.37; · Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 14.0.1; · Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to version 14.0; · DRI in SandyBridge has been disabled from the Intel driver; · A blacklist option has been added; · Radeon has been added in the default blacklist; · xorg-x11-drv-ati has been updated to support new hardware; · libdrm has been updated to version 2.4.33; · xulrunner has been removed; · mkkpkg has been fixed; · Various other updates have been implemented.

Download Vine Linux 6.1 RC2 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.