| First Slackware 11.0 release candidate available |
Aug. 14, 2006
 Distro maintainer Patrick Volkerding announced Aug. 15 that "the long development process of Slackware Linux 11.0 is about to conclude," and that the first release candidate of the venerable Linux distro, with an upgraded Linux kernel and KDE environment, is now available for download and testing.
"There are still a few changes yet to happen, but let's call this Slackware 11.0 release candidate 1," Volkerding said in the release announcement.
Other important changes, according to Volkerding, include:- 2.4.33 Linux kernel
- KDE 3.5.4 desktop and KOffice 1.5.2 application suite
- GAIM 1.5 messaging client
- Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 email client
- an upgrade to udev 097
- rebuild of glibc 2.3.6 for both 2.4.33 and 2.6.16.27 kernels
- bootdisks upgraded to Linux 2.4.33 kernel
- alsa-driver-1.0.11_2.4.33-i486-1.tgz upgraded to alsa-driver compiled for Linux 2.4.33
The new release will ship with X.Org 6.9.0 and KDE 3.5.4 and will provide SeaMonkey instead of Mozilla, Volkerding said.
Slackware Linux provides new and experienced users alike with a full-featured system, equipped to serve in any capacity from desktop workstation to machine-room server, Volkerding said. Web, ftp, and email servers are ready to go out of the box. A full range of development tools, editors, and current libraries is included for users who wish to develop or compile additional software.
Slackware Linux is not to be confused with the SLAX LiveCD, which is based on Slackware but is a separate distro released by a Czech Republic-based project team.
For more detailed information please see the changelog.
You can download your own copy of the iso CD/DVD image here. A list of Slackware mirror sites is available here.
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