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After many months of hard work, two Betas and two RCs, Patrick J. Volkerding was extremely proud to announce the release and immediate availability for download of the final Slackware 14.2 Linux operating system.
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Slackware Linux 14.2 arrives two and a half months after the mid-April release of the second and last Release Candidate (RC) build, and it has now been declared stable and ready for deployment as your daily driver. Powered by the latest (at the moment of writing this article) long-term supported Linux 4.4.14 kernel, Slackware 14.2 ships with many up-to-date components and GNU/Linux technologies.
For example, the distro switched to GNU C Library 2.23, X.Org 7.7, GGC 5.3.0 as default compiler, LLVM/Clang support, Apache 2.4.20, PHP 5.6.23, Perl 5.22.2, Python 2.7.11, Ruby 2.2.5, Subversion 1.9.4, Git 2.9.0, Mercurial 3.8.2, KDE Software Compilation 4.14.21 desktop environment, and much more. Best of all, there's support for Linux kernel 4.6 in the /testing directory. Full Story |
