14 DAY TRIAL // Slax creator Tomas Matejicek announced today the release and immediate availability of Slax 9.4.0, an incremental update to his Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution that introduces new features and improvements.
The most prominent change in the Slax 9.4 release is a new method for installing apps, which makes it a breeze for newcomers to install popular Linux apps, but only if the developer will add a placeholder for them in the distribution's app drawer (see the attached screenshot for details).
According to the developer, Slax will now show launchers for not-installed apps, which, when clicked, they will fetch and install the respective application from the official software repositories. The first such app installer are available for the VLC Media Player and VoteCoin anonymous cryptocurrency wallet.
"Most noticable change is addition of launchers for not-installed applications - the app will download and install on the first run," said the developer. "Feel free to suggest your preferred applications which you like to have included by default. [...] Those apps are not included in Slax, but clicking the icons will auto-install them (before the first run)."
Here's what else is new in Slax 9.4.0
Among other exciting changes introduced by today's Slax 9.4.0 release, we can mention the ability to turn off and on your Wi-Fi devices with the rfkill tool, new keyboard shortcuts for changing or muting the volume, direct rendering support, a new battery monitor called cbatticon, and file associations in the file manager.
The open-source Xarchiver front-end to various command-line archiving tools has been included as well in Slax 9.4.0, which adds a bunch of other optimizations and enhancements to make your Slax experience more enjoyable. Check out the release notes for more details on the new changes.
Meanwhile, you can download Slax 9.4.0 as 64-bit, 32-bit, and IPXE ISOs right now through our web portal or directly from the official website of the GNU/Linux distribution if you plan on deploying the Debian-based operating system on new computers. Existing users need only to update their installations to receive the new features and improvements.