Wifislax now works better with virtual machines

Aug 1, 2015 02:23 GMT  ·  By

The developers of the popular Wifislax Linux distribution based on the well-known Slackware operating system and built around the KDE and Xfce desktop environments announced the release of Wifislax 4.11.1.

According to the announcement (Spanish only), WifiSlax 4.11.1 is here as a quick maintenance release to Wifislax 4.11.0 because users reported problems when deploying the operating system on virtual machines.

"Well, due to a problem with VMWare machines when installing Wifislax 4.11, it is necessary to publish a bugfix version because the Wifislax 4.11 virtual machine would not start. [...] I apologize for two versions in the same month, but if there is a problem, you have to fix it," reads the announcement.

Besides that, Wifislax 4.11 introduces a great number of software updates, among which we can mention Hashcat 1.3.1, aircrack-ng 1.2 RC2 r2666, lighttpd 1.4.36, Google Chrome 44.0.2403.107, BMon 3.8, firmware 20150722, youtube-dl 2015.07.21, FFMpeg 2.7.2, Xfce 4.12.3, Apache 2.4.16, as well as PHP 5.6.11.

Additionally, the developers managed to update the AviDemux video editor, update the Aegisub advanced subtitle editor to the latest version available, add the ffms2 software, fix the qBittorrent's default configuration file as it didn't display the name of the downloaded files, and update the gLabels label creator and designer utility.

Several other software were updated in Wifislax 4.11

In addition to the changes mentioned above, Wifislax 4.11 updates the Telegram Desktop client, the Filezilla FTP client, and the Spotify online music streaming client. Furthermore, the GNOME Sudoku game has been added, along with two new libraries, and the pyrit tool was recompiled.

Moreover, the bootins.sh script has been modified to warn users that they need to be root (system administrator) to make a change or enable a specific setting, and the installer has been improved to better detect SMP and PAE hardware during the installation.

Download Wifislax 4.11.1 right now from Softpedia.