Slamd64 12.2 :: Blog

Slamd64 12.2

(posted at 2009-02-01 23:29:26 UTC)

An announcement mostly recycled from 12.1, and 12.0 in turn:

Slamd64 12.2 is released, and is an incremental improvement over 12.1, including:

Linux 2.6.27.7
GCC 4.2.4
Apache HTTPD 2.2.10, with SSL support and PHP 5.2.8
Updated development tools
KDE 3.5.10
XFCE 4.4.3
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.19
Sun Java (JRE and JDK) 6u11

Like previous releases of Slamd64, 12.2 provides seamless FHS-compliant 32-bit compatibility, via a multilib system (/lib for 32-bit libraries and /lib64 for 64-bit libraries). This provides easier and increased support for both existing 32-bit software (in most cases, you can just install a package designed for Slackware with no special work needed), and for 64-bit binaries too (which require /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 to be present) such as the NVidia drivers, without requiring compatability symlinks which clutter the root directory and remove the separation of 32 and 64-bit binaries.

nspluginwrapper is still included in c/, allowing you to easily use 32-bit browser plugins (such as Adobe Flash) in the included 64-bit browsers, such as Firefox and Konqueror - given the availability of prerelease 64-bit versions of Adobe Flash Player and Sun's Java Plugin, this will hopefully vanish soon.

As per usual, there's several people that really deserve my thanks:

Carlos Corbacho - again, a huge amount of contributions to Slamd64, in many areas.
Andrew Brouwers - many contributions and support.
Joshua Wood - many contributions and support.
Patrick Volkerding - for making Slackware
Everyone who's helped with bug reports or support on the forums/IRC
The residents of a variety of IRC channels (you know who you are)
Distributions I have taken compatability patches from; especially Cross-LFS, Gentoo, and OpenSUSE

Additionally, as announced previously, support for 11.0 will be dropped shortly.

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