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Slax 7.0 RC1 Distribution Is Based on KDE 4

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http://news.softpedia.com – Slax, a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design, is now at version 7.0 RC1. Slax 7.0 RC1 is based on the KDE 4.x branch and comes with a lot of applications from the KDE SC package, for network, multimedia and games. Other applications included in the distro are the Pidgin messenger, Mozilla Firefox, Mplayer (video player), and a few others. The developer boasts about the fact that the entire... (read more) (General)

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