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Flavio Pereira de Oliveira announced today the third release of his popular Slackware-based Live CD Linux distribution, GoblinX, also known as G:Standard. GoblinX 3.0 used to have five desktop managers, but it appears that Flavio decided to keep only one, the K Desktop Environment. With the KDE4 on board, this distri... |
2 October 2009
13:23 GMT |
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Paul Sherman announced the release of Absolute Linux 13.0, bringing this lightweight Slackware derivative up-to-date. Because of the important system-level changes that happened in Slackware 13, the Absolute Linux developers had a hard time making all their customizations work with this new base. However, they manage... |
11 September 2009
04:32 GMT |
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After a long wait, Slackware fans are finally able to rejoice, as Patrick J. Volkerding announced late yesterday that Slackware 13.0 was available at last. The changes definitely warrant the major version bump, since this release has a number of unique features that its predecessor wasn't capable of, like runnin... |
28 August 2009
05:39 GMT |
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The Slack Mini Server (SMS) Project team announced yesterday, August 10th, the release of Slack Mini Server 1.4.5, which celebrates 2 full years of activity. The new release is based on Slackware Linux 13.0 RC2 and it brings Asterisk PBX, Samba 3.4.0, PHP 5.3.0 and many updated packages (see below for details). "It&... |
11 August 2009
03:30 GMT |
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A few hours ago Slackware's creator, Patrick Volkerding, announced that the second release candidate of the upcoming Slackware 13.0 Linux distribution was available for download. This update brings numerous new base packages, like the Linux kernel version 2.6.29.6, X.Org Server 1.6.3 and the K Desktop Environmen... |
6 August 2009
08:19 GMT |
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Pierrick Le Brun announced earlier today the immediate availability of the Zenwalk Linux 6.0 Live CD Edition. Being based on the standard version of the Zenwalk Linux distribution, the Live CD edition is actually a replica of the main edition, except for the fact that it can be run directly from the CD. Zenwalk Linux... |
12 May 2009
10:01 GMT |
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The Slack Mini Server (SMS) Project team announced two days ago, on May 10th, the immediate availability of Slack Mini Server 1.4.3, a Slackware-based Linux distribution. An important change was made to the package format, now .txz (lzma), dramatically reducing the size of the distribution. The Slack Mini Server repo... |
11 May 2009
20:01 GMT |
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David Cortarello announced today the release of his Kwort Linux 2.4.1 Slackware-based distribution. "This version took a year to develop and provides a lot of changes from 2.4 release, including a new, more cleaned up than usual, base system, whole new tool chain, new configuration tools and lots of new things." Davi... |
10 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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While busy with his new house, Tomas Matejicek, father of the Slax distribution, decided to please his users and announced last night a new maintenance release for Slax: "I've been a bit busy (as usual) and it will be the same for the following few weeks, I'm building a new house and I have to be there ever... |
10 April 2009
05:27 GMT |
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The VectorLinux team announced, on April 1st, the immediate availability of their VectorLinux 6.0 Light Linux distribution. Being designed to work with low-end machines, VectorLinux 6.0 Light will need only a 200 MhZ processor, 64 MB of RAM and 2 GB of hard disk space. "Light is aimed at users with some Linux experie... |
2 April 2009
20:01 GMT |
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After testing a lot of final, stable releases, we think it's time to provide some feedback on some projects that are still in development. So, let us welcome you to the Beta Testing Lab, where today we'll test Wolvix 2.0.0 Beta as thoroughly as possible. Wolvix 2.0.0 Beta is a Linux distribution based on ... |
1 April 2009
20:31 GMT |
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Paul Sherman, the creator of Absolute Linux, a Slackware-based Linux distribution, has announced yesterday, March 18th, the release of Absolute Linux 12.2.2. Among others things, changes were made to the Linux kernel that is now at version 2.6.28.7 and to the installation that now uses ext4 as the default filesystem.... |
19 March 2009
19:41 GMT |
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After pushing our trusty computer to its limits with all sorts of 3D desktop effects through Elive Compiz, moonOS or Ubuntu with KDE 4.2, we decided to let it relax for a while. And given the fact that an active rest is always better than a brain-dumbing, sit-and-do-nothing kind of rest, we thought it would be nice t... |
10 March 2009
10:40 GMT |
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Attila Craciun has announced today the release of Bluewhite64 Linux 12.2 LiveDVD. This version features almost all applications that are included in the Bluewhite64 Linux Install DVD plus software created by the Bluewhite64 Linux community. This LiveDVD has been made to run on both single and multi core 64-bit proces... |
9 March 2009
17:51 GMT |
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Fred Emmott announced yesterday the release of version 12.2 of his Linux distribution, Slamd64, a system compatible with both 32- and 64-bit hardware. Its multilib capability enables this distro to have an increased support for both 32-bit software and 64-bit binaries, but without the cluttering of the root directory... |
3 February 2009
03:59 GMT |
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Paul Sherman, father of the Absolute Linux, announced on January 8th, a new bug fix release of his Slackware-based operating system. Absolute Linux 12.2.1 delivers updated versions for the Pidgin (2.5.2), Samba (3.2.7), the GIMP (2.6.4), WPClipart (7.1), Audacity (1.3.6) applications and the following Mozilla product... |
9 January 2009
04:35 GMT |
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Patrick Verner announced yesterday, October 18th, the first maintenance release of his Linux distribution, Parted Magic 3.0. Version 3.1 contains minor changes, a few updated applications and also a handful of new additions. However, there is one important feature that comes with Parted Magic 3.1, and that is the ava... |
19 October 2008
11:57 GMT |
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Iuri Stanchev announced last night a new version of his Slackware-based Linux distribution, with advanced security enhancements. The new version comes with a smaller ISO image, a portage system, enhanced kernel configuration and updated X.Org, improved installer and much more. "As the NetSecL Project developer - I am... |
1 October 2008
03:46 GMT |
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After more than four months of hard work, the Zenwalk team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the final version of its Slackware-powered distro, Zenwalk Linux 5.2: "The long awaited Zenwalk 5.2 is now available. In the 4 months since the last release many enhancements have been made. The Zenwalk GNU/L... |
7 June 2008
07:00 GMT |
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The release of Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 LiveDVD was announced by Attila Craciun. Bluewhite64 Linux is a port of Slackware Linux to the x86_64 architecture, that offers advanced features and improved performance. Besides the LiveDVD, a LiveUSB version is also available.The LiveDVD uses the SMP Linux kernel 2.6.24.7 for ... |
27 May 2008
09:57 GMT |
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After 4 months of hard work, Zenwalk team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Zenwalk Linux 5.2 Beta: "The long awaited Zenwalk 5.2 is out in Beta. It's been 4 months since the last release, and it is time to brush off the packages" - says the Zenwalk team in the release announcement. If you'... |
23 May 2008
02:46 GMT |
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The first beta version of GoblinX 2.7 (Standard edition), the popular Slackware-based Live CD Linux distribution, was released on May 4th, bringing many updated software, including Linux kernel 2.6.24.3, KDE 3.5.9 and all the Gnome libraries and applications. Other important features, bug fixes and improvements inclu... |
6 May 2008
02:34 GMT |
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One of the most important Linux distributions, Slackware, has reached another milestone in its evolution. Slackware just got to version 12.1 RC2, as announced on the official website.Patrick Volkerding noted: "We're beyond updating packages or fixing minor cosmetic bugs at this point (actually, we had hoped to b... |
22 April 2008
04:25 GMT |
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The first release candidate of Slackware 12.1 was released today, as announced by Patrick J. Volkerding, who also invited everyone interested in testing to help out.CUPS was updated to version 1.3.7, which fixes some buffer overflows in the GIF image filter and in cgiCompileSearch. HAL was recompiled with the --enabl... |
3 April 2008
09:34 GMT |
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Slax 6.0.1 was released yesterday, as announced by Tomas Matejicek. This is an update for the recently launched (on February 12th) Slax 6. This is a modern, small and fast Slackware-based distribution, translated in 28 languages.Here are the changes featured in Slax 6.0.1:• bugfix: Module Manager will display correct... |
29 February 2008
03:25 GMT |
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The final version of GoblinX 2.6 (Standard edition), the popular Slackware-based Live CD Linux distribution, was released yesterday and the most amazing and unbelievable thing to mention is that it comes packed with not one, two or three, but five window managers: KDE, Fluxbox, Xfce, Enlightenment and WindowMaker! Fe... |
19 February 2008
03:05 GMT |
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Slax 6, the latest version of the modern, small and fast Slackware-based distro Slax, was released yesterday.Slax participated in the development of sqlzma patches, where the code implements LZMA - 7-zip compression - into squashfs filesystem. Squashfs now supports bigger block sizes than before. These two enhancemen... |
13 February 2008
04:02 GMT |
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Atilla Craciun, lead developer of Bluewhite 64, announced yesterday the availability of the Bluewhite64 12.0-Live-DVD-r1 edition. This is a maintenance release for the Bluewhite64 12.0 stable LiveDVD version.A large number of packages have been updated and new features made their way into this release. The latest sta... |
5 February 2008
05:06 GMT |
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The holidays are coming and the developers from Vector Linux thought about giving us a new version of their operating system as a present. Robert Lange and his team have just released Vector Linux 5.9 final GOLD edition.After several months of work - coding, debugging and testing - by the core development team and th... |
21 December 2007
05:32 GMT |
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The "Mini" edition of GoblinX 2.5, codenamed "Goblins Attack at Halloween", was released yesterday.This distribution contains only XFCE as windows manager, and GTK/GTK2 based applications. The most important upgrades since release candidate v.01 are the following:A script was added to use module on the fly from Thuna... |
1 November 2007
04:34 GMT |
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Slamd64 Linux 12.0 release, an unofficial port of Slackware Linux 12.0 to the AMD64 architecture, was announced by Fred Emmott.After nearly two and a half years of development, the new distribution comes with some interesting features:￭ Linux kernel 2.6.22.8￭ GCC 4.1.2￭ Support for booting the in... |
19 October 2007
06:54 GMT |
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BlackRoute is yet another Slackware-based Linux distribution for security and forensic analysis, created for x86 compatible architectures. What is so special about BlackRoute is the fact that it tries to create an Open Source Linux distribution for advanced users, security and network specialists and system administr... |
3 September 2007
06:11 GMT |
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Paul Sherman, developer of Absolute Linux, announced last night the immediate availability of the Absolute Linux 12.0.1, an update to the Slackware 12.0 modification. This version is compatible with Slackware packages, but leaner and includes some helpful tools to make configuration and setup a lot easier for desktop... |
7 August 2007
03:48 GMT |
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I have recently heard of an ambitious project, called Menhir, which targets the noble idea of bringing Linux closer to its users and providing more information on each of its aspects. According to its creator, the project mainly searches to bring to the users' knowledge information on all the four open source s... |
18 July 2007
16:25 GMT |
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Developed by Martin Ultima, the Ultima Linux release is a Slackware based distribution which addresses both Intel and AMD architectures. Inheriting Slackware, which is known for being very openly customizable and suitable for learning the innards of Linux, Ultima Linux is a fast, secure, stable and easy-to use OS. Re... |
10 July 2007
08:31 GMT |
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Slackare 12.0 was released last night, being a "must-have upgrade for any Slackware user", as Patrick Volkerding (Slackware developer) stated. If you wonder why, it's because this is the first release based on the 2.6 Linux kernel. Other highlights of Slackware 12.0:• Linux kernel 2.6.21.5• KDE 3.5.7• Xfce 4.4.... |
3 July 2007
06:28 GMT |
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The much-waited stable Slackware version is now ready to run on your machine. Coming with numerous improvements, compared to the previous releases, among which I could mention the migration to the 2.6 kernel series, the 12.0 version is a "must-have upgrade for any Slackware user", quoting its developer. Slackware 12... |
3 July 2007
02:44 GMT |
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Slackware is one of the earliest Linux distributions created by Patrick Volkerding of Slackware Linux, Inc. One of the things Slackware is best known for among the open source community is the fact that it takes in only the stable releases of applications; stability and simplicity being the two fundamental concepts ... |
26 June 2007
07:35 GMT |
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Patrick Volkerding, founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution, has just announced the release of a 12.0 RC version for Slackware. Slackware Linux is one of the earliest distributions and also the oldest currently being maintained. Slackware has a policy of incorporating only stable releases of appli... |
15 June 2007
06:58 GMT |
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Zenwalk has been working hard since their latest Live 4.4.1 release and now they proudly announce the latest beta version of Zenwalk 4.6, Red Pill. Among the improvements and upgrades brought to this new version, there are also many bug-fixes made in different fields, such as the CD/DVD tools or the print system. Th... |
1 May 2007
10:58 GMT |
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