Salix KDE 14.0RC1
Posted: 30. Mar 2013, 10:06
Salix KDE 14.0RC1 is ready! We are getting close to a final release.
Salix 14.0 includes the stable 14.0 tree of Slackware and KDE 4.8.5 accompanied by a very rich collection of KDE centric software. Linux kernel is 3.2.29. Qupzilla is the web browser, KMail and Ktorrent are the main networking applications included in this release, followed by Akregator, an RSS reader for KDE, Kopete, the KDE instant messenger and more. It comes also with Openjre-7u7, rhino, icedtea-web. Wicd is used for setting up your wired or wireless networking connections.
In the multimedia section Bangarang 2.1, Clementine 1.0.1, K3b 2.0.2 included. The Salix codecs installer application can be used, to quickly and easily install patent encumbered codecs to your system.
A wide variety of office applications are included. Calligra Words, Calligra Stage, Calligra Tables are the main office applications present while there are many more like KOrganizer, KAddressBook and the Okular document viewer.
In the graphics section Krita, Karbon, Gwenview, KColorChooser, KSnapshot.
The graphical Salix system tools are present too, making administrative tasks easy for everyone. Package management, as always, is done using slapt-get and its graphical frontend Gslapt. Sourcery graphical tool for managing and installing packages from SlackBuilds is included.
In 32 bit iso image there is support for old CPU's.
Changes are from beta1 release:
The following bugs that has been reported by users has been fixed.
libiodbc added (needed by nepomuk)
mozilla-firefox entry in the favorite has been removed.
The qupzilla homepage is set to http://salixos.org/start
So, please download this release candidate and report any issues you may find. Hopefully there are none. You can download the iso images through Sourceforge using the following links:
32-bit:
(size: 973 MB, md5: af28276e298841621c54baacca42b5bc )
http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
64-bit:
(size: 915 MB, md5: db2dbf2f24416603682f49dc1a5e9665 )
http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
Thanks for testing!
Salix 14.0 includes the stable 14.0 tree of Slackware and KDE 4.8.5 accompanied by a very rich collection of KDE centric software. Linux kernel is 3.2.29. Qupzilla is the web browser, KMail and Ktorrent are the main networking applications included in this release, followed by Akregator, an RSS reader for KDE, Kopete, the KDE instant messenger and more. It comes also with Openjre-7u7, rhino, icedtea-web. Wicd is used for setting up your wired or wireless networking connections.
In the multimedia section Bangarang 2.1, Clementine 1.0.1, K3b 2.0.2 included. The Salix codecs installer application can be used, to quickly and easily install patent encumbered codecs to your system.
A wide variety of office applications are included. Calligra Words, Calligra Stage, Calligra Tables are the main office applications present while there are many more like KOrganizer, KAddressBook and the Okular document viewer.
In the graphics section Krita, Karbon, Gwenview, KColorChooser, KSnapshot.
The graphical Salix system tools are present too, making administrative tasks easy for everyone. Package management, as always, is done using slapt-get and its graphical frontend Gslapt. Sourcery graphical tool for managing and installing packages from SlackBuilds is included.
In 32 bit iso image there is support for old CPU's.
Changes are from beta1 release:
The following bugs that has been reported by users has been fixed.
libiodbc added (needed by nepomuk)
mozilla-firefox entry in the favorite has been removed.
The qupzilla homepage is set to http://salixos.org/start
So, please download this release candidate and report any issues you may find. Hopefully there are none. You can download the iso images through Sourceforge using the following links:
32-bit:
(size: 973 MB, md5: af28276e298841621c54baacca42b5bc )
http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
64-bit:
(size: 915 MB, md5: db2dbf2f24416603682f49dc1a5e9665 )
http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
Thanks for testing!