Slackware 13.1. Hooray!

After nine months of development, the Linux release of the Slackware 13.1 distribution kit has been officially released, with support for two graphical environments - lightweight based on Xfce 4.6.1 and full-featured based on KDE 4.4.3. Packages in the new version are compiled using the GCC 4.4.4 compiler, the system is running Linux kernel 2.6.33.4 and the Glibc system library 2.11.1.

Slackware 13.1 Features:

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• The distribution includes the ConsoleKit and PolicyKit subsystems, the first for managing sessions and tracking users, and the second for granting extended access rights, allowing users to perform some privileged actions without having superuser rights;
• The transition to the Linux kernel 2.6.33 series has increased the support in Slackware for logged and encrypted filesystems, SCSI and ATA RAID, SATA, Software RAID, LVM (Logical Volume Manager). Improved support for PCMCIA, CardBus, USB, IEE1394 (FireWire) and ACPI;
• The kernel is assembled with additional patches from the Speakup project, which allows the use of a speech synthesizer to ensure the work of people who have vision problems.
• Updated package management tools. The package tracking feature will simplify upgrades from Slackware version 13.0, and the slackpkg utility will be useful when upgrading from an older version of the distribution and keeping the system up to date. The slacktrack utility is included in the extra-repository to prepare and maintain your own packages;
• New software versions:
  
  • Encryption: OpenSSL 0.9.8n, OpenSSH 5.5, OpenVPN 2.1.1 and GnuPG 2.0.14;
  • Web technologies: Apache (httpd) 2.2.15 and PHP 5.2.13;
  • Developer Tools: Perl 5.10.1, Python 2.6.4, Ruby 1.9.1-p378, Subversion 1.6.11, git 1.7.1, mercurial 1.5.2, KDevelop 4.0.0;
  • Web browsers and email clients: Konqueror 4.4.3, SeaMonkey 2.0.4, Firefox 3.6.3, Thunderbird 3.0.4;
  • User applications based on KDE technologies: amarok 2.3.0, koffice 2.1.2, k3b 1.91, ktorrent 3.3.4;
  • GTK + based applications collection: pidgin 2.7.0, gimp 2.6.8, gkrellm 2.3.4, gxine 0.5.903, xchat 2.8.6, xsane 0.996, pan 0.133.
  • The extra-repositories contain Java JDK 6 update 20, a set of libraries for compatibility with kde3, a browser plugin based on mplayer, etc.

Download the distribution kit, as always, from the official site.

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