## Slacko64 Puppy DISTRO_VERSION - released November 2015

#### Slacko64 Puppy DISTRO_VERSION

#### 16th November, 2015

The debut release of Slacko64 Puppy Linux is out!

This is the first official release of a 64 bit Puppy!

Slacko64 Puppy is built from Slackware64-14.1 binary TXZ packages, hence has binary compatibility with Slackware and access to the Slackware and Salix repositories. It is a 64 bit operating system and requires a compatible Intel (IA64) or AMD (amd64) processor. More comprehensive release notes and documentation of known issues are available.

Features include:

- Updated "First Run" GUI with bugfixes and visual enhancements.
- New kernels following LTS branches of 3 series built with f2fs support and 4 series kernels. The shipped kernel is 4.1.11
- New "change_kernels" script to easily change kernels
- Many Icon and Graphical User Interface improvements throughout the system.
- Latest Ffmpeg and supporting programs including Pmusic and Mplayer.
- Updated Joe's Window Manager (JWM).
- Visual and bugfix improvements to the tools to configure JWM, including the new PTheme, a global theme manager for JWM and ROX desktop
- Updated Firefox and Abiword
- new graphical firewall program
- Samba, used to share files with Windows, is shipped by default
- replaced epdfview with evince pdf viewer
- Many other updated programs.

As mentioned above, Slacko64 DISTRO_VERSION is shipped with kernel 4.1.11 but 3.18.22 and 4.2.5 are available from the repository and easily changed using the change_kernels script. Find more information at the Slacko download page including a brief guide to which version is right for you.