Slackware 13.37 brings many updates and enhancements, among which you'll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: Xfce 4.6.2, a fast and lightweight but visually appealing and easy to use desktop environment, and KDE 4.5.5, a recent stable release of the 4.5.x series of the award-winning KDE desktop environment.
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... (read more)
Salix OS13.37 "Xfce" edition has been released. Soon after the launch of Slackware 13.37 the fresh release of Salix 13.37 was made. George Vlahavas announced the release of the first of the Salix OS series that operates on various desktop environments and window managers. Salix 13.37 is based on the new Slackware Linux 13.3.
Slackware 13.37 has been released, the latest major stable update to the venerable Linux distribution, the oldest surviving project that still sees active development. Many packages have been updated, including the desktop environments, and Slackware 13.37 also comes with a recent Linux kernel."After many months of development and careful testing, we are proud to ann... (read more)
102 LinuxNov NEWS discussing Distributions release, software, Desktops, Mobile, Window Managers, and many distribution released based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, debian based, Slackware. even more with more software released this week for Mobile, Desktop.
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Slackware Linux 13.1
It has been a while since both KDE 4.3.0 and Slackware 13.0 were released. But Patrick hasn't merged KDE 4.3.x yet into the Slackware-current tree.However some members of the community have been trying to get KDE 4.3 running on Slackware and one such successful result is from Vincent Batt.
Slackware Linux Review — Current version 13.1 Introduction From Wikipedia: Slackware is a free and open source operating system. It was one of the earliest operating systems to be built on top of the Linux kernel and is the oldest currently being maintained. Slackware was created by Patrick Volkerding of Slackware Linux, Inc. in 1993.
With the release of the Slackware 13.1 Release Candidate 1, the latest update to the oldest supported Linux distro in existence is now very close. Slackware 13.1 RC1 comes less than a couple of weeks since the first beta launch and is mostly a bug-fixing release, though it comes with some updated packages as well.
The GNOME Desktop is alive and well for Slackware! GNOME SlackBuild has released a stable 2.26.3 GNOME desktop for the latest Slackware and Slackware64 13.0. See http://www.gnomeslackbuild.org for more information about what is offered, and how to download it for Slackware.
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