Salix Openbox 14.0beta2
Posted: 23. Feb 2013, 13:38
Hi everyone! Here is Salix Openbox 14.0beta2 release.
Salix Openbox 14.0beta2 includes the latest updates from Slackware -14.0 and Openbox 3.5.0 accompanied by a very rich collection of software. Linux kernel is 3.2.29. The Midori 0.4.7 web browser, Claws-Mail 3.8.1 and Transmission are the main networking applications included in this release. SpaceFm is the file manager. It comes also with Openjre-7u9, rhino, icedtea-web, Pidgin and Gftp. Wicd is used for setting up your wired or wireless networking connections.
It is simple to install now printers share on network with just a mouse click. Just run system-config-printer and Salix openbox will detect them and setup them with a mouse click, thanks to pysmbc package.
Mount samba shares are also easy through SpaceFm file manager. Just copy as root /etc/samba/smb.conf-sample to /etc/samba/smb.conf and start samba.
Abiword, Gnumeric and ePDFviewer office applications are included. Whaawmp is the default movie player,Exaile 3.3.0 is the application to use for managing your music collection, Asunder Cd ripper, Bracero for writing CD/DVD’s and more. The Salix codecs installer application can be used, to quickly and easily install patent encumbered codecs to your system.
In the graphics section Viewnior 1.3 is the default image viewer, Gimp 2.8.2 for editing images and Scrot the snapshot utility.
On Salix repositories can find also Openjdk-7u9, LibreOffice-4.0.0.3, Thunderbird, Firefox ,inkscape, Μumble, Μurmur, Postfix, Dovecot and much more.
More software choices are available in the form of SlackBuild scripts and users can have automated access to these SlackBuilds using either slapt-src from the command line or Sourcery graphical management tool.
After installation open as root /etc/fstab and add the following lines on the end if you have two dvd drives.
/dev/sr0 /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/sr1 /media/dvd1 auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
to make brasero detect blank cd/dvd's
On this 32-bit version, there are both SMP (multiple processor capable) and non-SMP (single processor) kernels. The non-SMP kernel is mostly intended for machines that can’t run the SMP kernel, which is anything older than a Pentium III, and some models of the Pentium M that don’t support PAE. It is highly recommended to use the SMP kernel if your machine is able to boot with it (even if you have only a single core) because the optimization and memory handling options should yield better performance.
You can download all Salix Openbox 14.0beta2 iso images from the following link, using the Sourceforge servers.
Salix Openbox 14.0beta2 (32-bit) installation image
(size: 649MB,md5: e4a4766d72df344e6878b44dbbdbd4f3)
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
Many thanks to all the developers and packagers and quality package testers. Without them this release could not be done.
Some screenshots
Thanks for testing.
Salix Openbox 14.0beta2 includes the latest updates from Slackware -14.0 and Openbox 3.5.0 accompanied by a very rich collection of software. Linux kernel is 3.2.29. The Midori 0.4.7 web browser, Claws-Mail 3.8.1 and Transmission are the main networking applications included in this release. SpaceFm is the file manager. It comes also with Openjre-7u9, rhino, icedtea-web, Pidgin and Gftp. Wicd is used for setting up your wired or wireless networking connections.
It is simple to install now printers share on network with just a mouse click. Just run system-config-printer and Salix openbox will detect them and setup them with a mouse click, thanks to pysmbc package.
Mount samba shares are also easy through SpaceFm file manager. Just copy as root /etc/samba/smb.conf-sample to /etc/samba/smb.conf and start samba.
Abiword, Gnumeric and ePDFviewer office applications are included. Whaawmp is the default movie player,Exaile 3.3.0 is the application to use for managing your music collection, Asunder Cd ripper, Bracero for writing CD/DVD’s and more. The Salix codecs installer application can be used, to quickly and easily install patent encumbered codecs to your system.
In the graphics section Viewnior 1.3 is the default image viewer, Gimp 2.8.2 for editing images and Scrot the snapshot utility.
On Salix repositories can find also Openjdk-7u9, LibreOffice-4.0.0.3, Thunderbird, Firefox ,inkscape, Μumble, Μurmur, Postfix, Dovecot and much more.
More software choices are available in the form of SlackBuild scripts and users can have automated access to these SlackBuilds using either slapt-src from the command line or Sourcery graphical management tool.
After installation open as root /etc/fstab and add the following lines on the end if you have two dvd drives.
/dev/sr0 /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/sr1 /media/dvd1 auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
to make brasero detect blank cd/dvd's
On this 32-bit version, there are both SMP (multiple processor capable) and non-SMP (single processor) kernels. The non-SMP kernel is mostly intended for machines that can’t run the SMP kernel, which is anything older than a Pentium III, and some models of the Pentium M that don’t support PAE. It is highly recommended to use the SMP kernel if your machine is able to boot with it (even if you have only a single core) because the optimization and memory handling options should yield better performance.
You can download all Salix Openbox 14.0beta2 iso images from the following link, using the Sourceforge servers.
Salix Openbox 14.0beta2 (32-bit) installation image
(size: 649MB,md5: e4a4766d72df344e6878b44dbbdbd4f3)
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
Many thanks to all the developers and packagers and quality package testers. Without them this release could not be done.
Some screenshots
Thanks for testing.