14 DAY TRIAL // Salix Xfce 13.37, based on the recently released Slackware 13.37, is now available for download. Besides all of the upstream improvements, Salix Xfce 13.37 comes with several enhancements and updates of its own.
"Salix Xfce 13.37 is finally here, shortly after Slackware 13.37 was released, on which Salix 13.37 is based. Salix Xfce 13.37 includes numerous changes and improvements, both Salix specific and also inherited from Slackware," George Vlahavas announced.
"With Salix being fully backwards compatible with Slackware, the Salix repositories for 13.37, for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, are already the largest 3rd party binary package repositories available for Slackware users," he added.
Some notable changes in the packages, LibreOffice has replaced OpenOffice.org, a move that mirrors that of most Linux distros in the past few months, as the community around the now Oracle-owned OpenOffice forked the office suite to regain leadership of the project.
Highlights of Salix OS Xfce 13.37:
· Linux kernel 2.6.37.6; · Xfce 4.6.2; · Firefox 4.0.1; · Claws-mail 3.7.8; · LibreOffice 3.3.2; · Exaile 0.3.2; · Parole 0.2.0.6; · Pitivi 0.13.5; · Brasero 2.32.1; · GIMP 2.6.11.
Salix uses gslapt as the default graphical package manager and slapt-get from the command line. Alternatively, the latest Salix release includes Sourcery, a new package manager that has been created specifically for Salix.
"IBus has replaced SCIM as the default input platform for Chinese, Japanese etc. IBus is more modern than SCIM and should work better with all applications, including Mozilla Firefox," Salix detailed some other changes.
Hal is no longer used by Xorg and the Noveau Nvidia graphics card driver is now used by default, Salix announced.
Salix OS Xfce Live 13.37 is available for download here.
Salix OS 13.1.1 / 13.37 Beta 3 is available for download here. Salix OS Fluxbox 13.1.2 is available for download here.