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  2. <h2>Slacko Puppy DISTRO_VERSION - released November 2015</h2> <!--edit for 64-->
  3. <h4>Slacko Puppy DISTRO_VERSION
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  5. <h4>16th November, 2015</h4>
  6. <p>The next stable release of Slacko Puppy Linux is out!</p>
  7. <p>
  8. Slacko Puppy is built from Slackware-14.1 binary TXZ
  9. packages, hence has binary compatibility with Slackware and access to the
  10. Slackware and Salix repositories. More comprehensive
  11. release notes and documentation of known issues are <a href="http://slacko.eezy.xyz/notes.html" target="_blank">available</a>.<br>
  12. </p>
  13. <p>
  14. Features include:</p>
  15. <ul>
  16. <li>Updated &quot;First Run&quot; GUI with bugfixes and visual enhancements.
  17. </li>
  18. <li>New kernels following LTS branches of 3 series built with f2fs support and 4 series kernels. The shipped kernel is 3.14.55
  19. </li>
  20. <li>New &quot;change_kernels&quot; script to easily change kernels
  21. </li>
  22. <li>Many Icon and Graphical User Interface improvements throughout the system.
  23. </li>
  24. <li>Latest Ffmpeg and supporting programs including Pmusic and Mplayer.
  25. </li>
  26. <li>Updated Joe's Window Manager (<a href="http://joewing.net/programs/jwm/">JWM</a>).
  27. </li>
  28. <li>Visual and bugfix improvements to the tools to configure JWM, including the new <strong>PTheme</strong>, a global theme manager for JWM and ROX desktop
  29. </li>
  30. <li>Updated Firefox and Abiword
  31. </li>
  32. <li>new graphical firewall program
  33. </li>
  34. <li>Samba, used to share files with Windows, is shipped by default
  35. </li>
  36. <li>replaced epdfview with evince pdf viewer
  37. </li>
  38. <li>Many other updated programs.
  39. </li>
  40. </ul>
  41. <br>
  42. <p>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 <em>change_kernels</em> script.
  43. Find more information at the Slacko <a href="http://slacko.eezy.xyz/download.html" target="_blank">download</a> page
  44. including a brief guide to which version is right for you.</p>