Slacko Puppy DISTRO_VERSION - released November 2015
Slacko Puppy DISTRO_VERSION
16th November, 2015
The next stable release of Slacko Puppy Linux is out!
Slacko Puppy is built from Slackware-14.1 binary TXZ
packages, hence has binary compatibility with Slackware and access to the
Slackware and Salix repositories. 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 3.14.55
- 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, Slacko DISTRO_VERSION is shipped with kernel 3.14.55 but 3.18.22 and 4.1.11 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.