14 DAY TRIAL // After being in development for the past three months, the Salix 14.2 Xfce Edition operating system has finally hit the stable channels, and it is now available for download.
Based on the Slackware 14.2 GNU/Linux distribution and built around the lightweight and highly customizable Xfce 4.12 desktop environment, Salix 14.2 Xfce Edition ships with numerous improvements and new features that some of you who managed to test-drive the Beta and Release Candidate pre-releases are already accustomed with. Of course, many of the core components and default applications have been updated to their latest versions.
"The first thing you will notice, is that when booting one of the ISO images you don't get a boot prompt anymore. What you get is a boot menu and the menu offers options to install Salix in several different languages. So you can now install Salix, not only in English (both US and UK), but also in Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish (both for Spain and Costa-Rica), Swedish and Ukrainian," reads the announcement.
Here's what's new in Salix 14.2 Xfce Edition
Release highlights of Salix 14.2 Xfce Edition include two new in-house built graphical system utilities, namely GUEFI boot manager for UEFI systems and GTKRepoSetup GUI for the command-line reposetup tool, Mozilla Firefox as default web browser, Linux kernel 4.4.19 LTS, GLibc 2.23, GCC 5.3.0, the latest LLVM/Clang compiler, as well as the eudev device management system.
The artwork has also been updated in the Xfce edition of the Salix 14.2 operating system, and it looks like there's now a new software repository available, called "extra," which includes thousands of packages for you to install, some of which are built from SlackBuild scripts. Salix 14.2 Xfce Edition is available for download right now via our website as 32-bit and 64-bit installable ISO images. Live CDs will be released shortly.