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- <h2>Slacko64 Puppy DISTRO_VERSION - released November 2015</h2> <!--edit for 64-->
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- <h4>Slacko64 Puppy DISTRO_VERSION
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- <h4>16th November, 2015</h4>
- <p>The debut release of Slacko64 Puppy Linux is out!</p>
- <p><strong>This is the first official release of a 64 bit Puppy!</strong></p>
- <p>
- 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 <a href="http://slacko.eezy.xyz/notes.html" target="_blank">available</a>.<br>
- </p>
- <p>
- Features include:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Updated "First Run" GUI with bugfixes and visual enhancements.
- </li>
- <li>New kernels following LTS branches of 3 series built with f2fs support and 4 series kernels. The shipped kernel is 4.1.11
- </li>
- <li>New "change_kernels" script to easily change kernels
- </li>
- <li>Many Icon and Graphical User Interface improvements throughout the system.
- </li>
- <li>Latest Ffmpeg and supporting programs including Pmusic and Mplayer.
- </li>
- <li>Updated Joe's Window Manager (<a href="http://joewing.net/programs/jwm/">JWM</a>).
- </li>
- <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
- </li>
- <li>Updated Firefox and Abiword
- </li>
- <li>new graphical firewall program
- </li>
- <li>Samba, used to share files with Windows, is shipped by default
- </li>
- <li>replaced epdfview with evince pdf viewer
- </li>
- <li>Many other updated programs.
- </li>
- </ul>
- <br>
- <p>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 <em>change_kernels</em> script.
- Find more information at the Slacko <a href="http://slacko.eezy.xyz/download.html" target="_blank">download</a> page
- including a brief guide to which version is right for you.</p>
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