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Slamd64 12.0 Released!

(posted at 2007-10-19 09:53:54 UTC)

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Slamd64 12.0 is released, the latest result of nearly two and a half years of development :). If you're upgrading, please pay close attention to UPGRADE.TXT. Here's a short list of highlights:

  • General:
    • Linux 2.6.22.8
    • GCC 4.1.2
    • Support for booting the installer by USB or PXE (netboot).
  • 32-bit compatability:
    • FHS-compliant multilib system
    • Reworked 32-bit compatability libraries
    • Support for building 32-bit binaries (gcc -m32)
    • Seamless support for most 32-bit applications, including Cedega and OpenOffice.org
    • nspluginwrapper allows the usage of 32-bit browser plugins, including Flash Player
  • Desktop:
    • HAL automounting
    • KDE 3.5.7
    • XFCE 4.4.1
    • X11R7
    • Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6
    • Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.6
    • Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.4
    • Pidgin 2.2.1
  • Server:
    • The Apache Project's httpd, version 2.2.4
    • PHP 5.2.4
    • Perl 5.8.8
    • mysql 5.0.37

Slamd64 12 will be supported with security updates for at least the next two releases, and Slamd64 11 will be supported with security updates at least until the next release.

I'll also take this opportunity to shamelessly plug myself ;) I am in my final year of a computer science undergraduate course at the University of Warwick, and I am looking for full time employment starting in July 2008. If you or your company has an interest, please look at my website, or email me.

Thanks to:

  • The Centre for Scientific Computing, University of Warwick, for the primary mirror, anorien.warwick.ac.uk
  • Carlos Corbacho
  • Eric Hameleers
  • Everyone else who's posted a bug report on http://bugs.slamd64.com
  • he various distributions that have patches I've needed to use - in particular, Linux From Scratch.
  • The residents of #slamd64 on irc.freenode.net
  • The residents of ##slackware on irc.freenode.net
  • The residents of #slackware on irc.oftc.net
  • The residents of various other channels on irc.freenode.net (you know who you are ;)
  • Michael Urban
  • Peter Christy
  • Steven Mitchell
  • Daniel Frank
  • Manufacturers of caffeinated drinks :)

If I've missed out anyone who feels they should be in the above list, please let me know :).

It's uploaded to anorien, and should make it's way to your favourite mirror shortly.

Comments

Great!!!

Posted at 2007-11-10 18:20:32 UTC by "Lhotian"

I have just upgraded to it and have just one trouble with DNS resolution libraries. Don't known if it was the default on 11.0 or was the DLG64 packages who made the mistake, but the configuration /etc/nsswitch.conf was using library 'mdns4_minimal' only, on hosts entry, and when I upgrade I saw that this library wasn't on default libc and libc-solibs package anymore, so I just switched to 'dns' library and everything comes up again with no pain :D Thanks for your wonderful work with slamd64. All the best, Lhotian

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