Slackware 13.37 is released! It’s true! Slackware 13.37 has been released. Nearly a year in the making, you will appreciate the performance and stability that can only come with careful and rigorous testing. Slackware 13.37 uses the 2.6.37.6 Linux kernel (hence our new $SLACKWARE_VERSION.$KERNEL_VERSION naming system used for this release , and also ships with [...]

[Thanks to David Yingling for reminding me to send out this notice ] — Yes, it’s that time again! After many months of development and careful testing, we are proud to announce the release of Slackware version 13.1! We are sure you’ll enjoy the many improvements. We’ve done our best to bring the latest technology [...]

The MOPSLinux project has released MOPSLinux 7.0 Alpha 2.7 for public testing. Although labelled as alpha, this Slackware-based distribution with several custom tools is considered reasonably stable. Some of the main features and components of this release include: Linux kernel 2.6.31.4 with kernel modesetting for Intel and Radeon…. Read more at DistroWatch

Yes it’s that time again! After many months of development and careful testing, we are proud to announce the release of Slackware version 13.0! We are sure you’ll agree that the improvements made in this release more than warrant the major version bump up from the 12.x series. We’ve done our best to bring the [...]

Patrick Volkerding has announced that Slackware “current”, the distribution’s development branch, has reached release candidate 2 status: “Hi folks! We’re going to call this set of updates RC2. There are still README files to be handled (that’s the nature of documentation, I guess), as well as some other things remaining on the TODO list, but [...]

Slax 6.1.2, a small Slackware-based live CD featuring the KDE desktop 3.5, has been released. What’s new? “upgraded Slax kernel to 2.6.27.27, which contains many bugfixes; added xz package (LZMA compressor and decompressor); added support for TXZ Slackware packages; upgraded Midnight Commander to understand TXZ packages; fixed incorrect reporting of module file path in Slax [...]

Patrick Volkerding has announced that Slackware “Current”, the distribution’s development branch, has reached release candidate status: “The to-do isn’t entirely empty here, but it’s pretty much down to minor nits, and so we’re going to call this release candidate 1 and (mostly) freeze further updates unless they happen to fix problems. Regarding the kernel, 2.6.29.x [...]

Hello there, it’s time for the new release and here are the main higlights: *XOrg drivers updated to newest. *XOrg autostart is being now delayed few seconds so you could break if it is needed – mainly handy if you need to change the driver used. *Metasploit is updated to latest and ruby is reincluded [...]

[tap tap tap]… Is this thing on? Ready or not, Slackware has now gone 64-bit with an official x86_64 port being maintained in-sync with the regular x86 -current branch. DVDs will be available for purchase from the Slackware store when Slackware 13.0 is released. Many thanks go out to the Slackware team for their help [...]

Zenwalk Live 6.0, the latest Zenwalk in its Live CD format is ready! Based on Zenwalk current repository, Zenwalk live 6.0 is, as it should be, an almost perfect clone of the latest Zenwalk 6.0 with the addition of the latest security patches & bug fixes. Zenwalk Live 6.0 uses the version 6.2.9 of the [...]

We are proud to announce the release of Zenwalk 6.0 Gnome Edition! As always, Zenwalk features the latest Linux technology, featuring Linux kernel 2.6.28.7 and the Gnome 2.26.0 Desktop Environment. The Gnome 2.26.0 desktop includes a number of new features; a tabbed interface in nautilus, DVD-video creation capabilities in Brasero, Totem comes with youtube, jamendo [...]

The newest Slax version 6.0.9 has been released today. It fixes the problems with unsquashfs, which appeared in previous version. Moreover it updates Slax to the latest Slackware 12.2, with kernel 2.6.27.8 You can download it from the usual locations, preferred mirror is at ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/slax/SLAX-6.x/ (after it gets updated). I hope you like the new [...]

Well folks, it’s that time to announce a new stable Slackware release again. So, without further ado, announcing Slackware version 12.2! Since we’ve moved to supporting the 2.6 kernel series exclusively (and fine-tuned the system to get the most out of it), we feel that Slackware 12.2 has many improvements over our last release (Slackware [...]

Patrick Volkerding has announced that the development branch of Slackware Linux has reached release candidate status: “While there are still some documents that need updating and probably a few more tweaks and updates here and there, everything is mostly in place for the next stable release, Slackware Linux 12.2. The versions of major components like [...]