Available for downloading the new Slackware 14.2 final

The new Slackware 14.2 Linux is here! Slackware Linux 14.2 comes two and a half months after release in mid-April of the second build and the latest release Release Candidate (RC). The stable version is finally here and is currently supported with the LTS Linux Kernel 4.4.14.

But let's see what the new Slackware 14.2 brings.

The new distribution is supported by: GNU C Library 2.23, X.Org 7.7, GGC 5.3.0 as the default compiler, LLVM / Clang, Apache 2.4.20, 6.5.23, 5.22.2, 2.7.11, 2.2.5, 1.9.4, 2.9.0, Mercurial 3.8.2, KDE Software Compilation 4.14.21 desktop environment, and more.

Best of all, we see in the test list that there is support for the Linux kernel 4.6.

As we can see from the release notes, there is no sign of the next generation systemd init in Slackware 14.2, and it looks like the OS uses a combination of eudev, udisks, and udisks2, as well as several freedesktop.org specifications. This will allow system administrators to use different hardware devices such as MP3 players, diskUSB drives, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives, and more.

Η έκδοση x86_64 υποστηρίζει UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), και το τελευταίο NetworkManager είναι διαθέσιμο προσφέροντας στους χρήστες υποστήριξη για ένα ευρύ φάσμα συνδέσεων με το δίκτυο, όπως IPv6, VPN, mobile broadband, ενσύρματα και ασύρματα δίκτυα, υποστήριξη για κρυπτογραφημένες συνδέσεις δικτύου, χάρη στις τεχνολογίες OpenVPN, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, and GnuPG.

You can also find the known applications open code, SeaMonkey 2.40, Mozilla Firefox ESR 45.2.0, Mozilla Thunderbird 45.1.1, Pidgin 2.10.12, GIMP 8.2.16, HexChat 2.12.1, XSane 0.999, Pan 0.139, GKrellM 2.3.7, and many others.

Download Slackware 14.2 (32-bit and 64-bit) from the following links:

Release Notes

	slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso	2016-07-01 01:22	2.6G
	slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso.asc	2016-07-01 01:22	181	PGP signature file
	slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso.md5	2016-07-01 01:22	67	MD5 signature file
	slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso.txt	2016-07-01 01:21

	slackware64-live-14.2.iso	2016-07-01 12:21	2.5G
	slackware64-live-14.2.iso.asc	2016-07-01 14:29	181	PGP signature file
	slackware64-live-14.2.iso.md5	2016-07-01 12:21	60	MD5 signature file