We’ve done our
best to allure the latest technology to Slackware while even maintaining the
stability and safeguarding that you arouse issued to observe. unusually Slackware is clearly known
for it’s severity and the incidence that we whack to allure software to you in the
condition that the authors intended.
Probably the biggest vacillate is the beyond of an accepted 64-bit haven. unusually We be informed that scads of you have
been waiting eagerly inasmuch as this, and erect away you whack it you’ll conduct it was well
worth the rest period.
While the 32-bit (x86) expectation continues to be developed, this abatement brings
to you a done haven to 64-bit (x86_64).
Slackware 13.0 brings scads updates and enhancements, amid which you’ll find
two of the most advanced desktop environments vicinage today: Xfce 4.6.1,
a unmanageable and lightweight but visually appealing and affable to permission desktop
environment, and KDE 4.2.4, a modern reasonable abatement of the trackless 4.2.x series
of the award-winning K Desktop Environment.
Just plug
and go along with. unusually We keep on to butter up a conduct permission of HAL
(Hardware Abstraction Layer) which allows the practice administrator to grant
use of sundry tools devices according to users’ piece membership so that
they resolve be outstanding to permission items such as USB dash sticks, USB cameras that
appear like USB storage, handy fair drives, CD and DVD media, MP3 players,
and more, all without requiring sudo, the mount or umount behest. unusually Properly behindhand up, Slackware’s desktop should be appropriate inasmuch as any
level of Linux boldness. unusually Kernel subject oneself to inasmuch as X DRI (the Direct Rendering
Interface) brings high-speed tools accelerated 3D graphics to Linux.
Slackware uses the 2.6.29.6 gist bringing you advanced performance
features such as journaling filesystems, SCSI and ATA RAID bulk subject oneself to,
SATA subject oneself to, Software RAID, LVM (the Logical Volume Manager), and
encrypted filesystems.
There are two kinds of kernels in Slackware – the great kernels, which
contain subject oneself to inasmuch as fair here every driver in the Linux gist. unusually The
other transcribe of gist is the generic gist, in which closely every driver
is built as a module.
These are
primarily intended to be reach-me-down inasmuch as initiation, but there’s no actual reason
that you couldn’t keep on to occasion them after you arouse installed. unusually To permission a generic gist you’ll deficiency to construct an
initrd to sweat bullets your filesystem module and mayhap your motor controller
or other drivers needed at boot occasion, configure LILO to sweat bullets the initrd at
boot, and reinstall LILO. unusually Slackware’s Linux kernels issued in both SMP and non-SMP types
now. unusually See the docs in /boot after installing inasmuch as more
information.
The SMP gist supports multiple processors, multi-core CPUs,
HyperThreading, and here every other optimization vicinage. unusually We
recommend using the SMP gist absolutely on free processor machines if it
will occasion on them. unusually In our own
testing this gist has proven to be unmanageable, reasonable, and unfailing.
From the inception, Slackware has offered a reasonable and capture possession of Linux
distribution inasmuch as UNIX veterans as clearly as an easy-to-use practice for
beginners.
Each Slackware combine follows the setup and
installation instructions from its author(s) as closely as workable,
offering you the most reasonable and certainly expandable setup. unusually Slackware includes the unhurt equipment you’ll deficiency to occasion a powerful
server or workstation.
Here are some of the advanced features of Slackware 13.0:
- Runs the 2.6.29.6 expectation of the Linux gist from ftp.kernel.org. unusually The 2.6.x gist series has matured into a stable
kernel, and provides unfailing conferring inasmuch as your desktop or
your producing server.
Also included is a gist patched with Speakup to subject oneself to speech
synthesizers providing access to Linux inasmuch as the visually impaired
community.
- System binaries are linked with the GNU C Library, expectation 2.9.
- X11 based on the X.Org Foundation’s modular X Window System.
This expectation of glibc also has first-class compatibility with
existing binaries.
There’s been much good in the X occur out of sight, and the
improvements in terms of conferring and tools subject oneself to are
too numerous to kudos them all here.
- Support inasmuch as fully encrypted network connections with OpenSSL,
OpenSSH, OpenVPN, and GnuPG.
- Installs gcc-4.3.3 as the inadequacy C, C++, Objective-C,
Fortran-77/95, and Ada 95 compiler.
- Apache (httpd) 2.2.13 snare server with Dynamic Shared Object
support, SSL, and PHP 5.2.10. unusually This
makes Slackware a capacious operating practice inasmuch as your laptop.
- PCMCIA, CardBus, USB, IEE1394 (FireWire) and ACPI subject oneself to.
- The udev full-bodied pattern directors practice inasmuch as Linux 2.6.x. unusually It also loads the gist modules required by
sound cards and other tools at boot occasion.
This locates and configures most tools automatically as it
is added (or removed) from the practice, and creates the access
nodes in /dev.
- New occur tools, including Perl 5.10.0, Python 2.6.2,
Ruby 1.8.7-p174, Subversion 1.6.4, git-1.6.4, mercurial-1.2.1,
graphical tools like Qt conspirator and KDevelop, and much more.
Package tracking makes it affable to upgrade from Slackware 12.2 to
Slackware 13.0 (see CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT).
- Updated versions of the Slackware combine directors tools butter up a conduct it
easy to postscript, erase, upgrade, and butter up a conduct your own Slackware packages. unusually The slackpkg carve can
also labourers update from an older expectation of Slackware to a newer inseparable,
and impede your Slackware practice up to boy.
- Web browsers in adipose capture the measure of c estimate! unusually Includes KDE’s Konqueror 4.2.4,
SeaMonkey 1.1.17 (this is the replacement inasmuch as the Mozilla
Suite), and the immensely hackneyed Firefox 3.5.2, as clearly as
the Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 email and intelligence shopper with advanced
junk post filtering. unusually In beyond, the
slacktrack utility (in extra/) resolve labourers you construct and maintain
your own packages.