List:       slamd64-announce
Subject:    [Slamd64-Announce] Slamd64 12.2
From:       Fred Emmott <mail () fredemmott ! co ! uk>
Date:       2009-02-23 21:28:47
Message-ID: 200902232128.51757.mail () fredemmott ! co ! uk
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Hi,

Apologies for the delayed mail to this list.

Slamd64 12.2 was released on the 1st of February. Additionally, as announced 
via the slamd64-security list previously, support for 11.0 is being dropped to 
to time constraints.

The release notes for Slamd64 12.2 are as follows:

Slamd64 12.2 is released, and is an incremental improvement over 12.1, 
including:

- - Linux 2.6.27.7
- - GCC 4.2.4
- - Apache HTTPD 2.2.10, with SSL support and PHP 5.2.8
- - Updated development tools
- - KDE 3.5.10
- - XFCE 4.4.3
- - Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5
- - Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.19
- - Sun Java (JRE and JDK) 6u11

Like previous releases of Slamd64, 12.2 provides seamless FHS-compliant
32-bit compatibility, via a multilib system (/lib for 32-bit libraries and
/lib64 for 64-bit libraries). This provides easier and increased support
for both existing 32-bit software (in most cases, you can just install a
package designed for Slackware with no special work needed), and for
64-bit binaries too (which require /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 to be present)
such as the NVidia drivers, without requiring compatability symlinks which
clutter the root directory and remove the separation of 32 and 64-bit 
binaries.

nspluginwrapper is still included in c/, allowing you to easily use 32-bit
browser plugins (such as Adobe Flash) in the included 64-bit browsers, such as
Firefox and Konqueror - given the availability of prerelease 64-bit versions 
of
Adobe Flash Player and Sun's Java Plugin, this will hopefully vanish soon.

As per usual, there's several people that really deserve my thanks:
- - Carlos Corbacho - again, a huge amount of contributions to Slamd64, in many
        areas.
- - Andrew Brouwers - many contributions and support.
- - Joshua Wood - many contributions and support.
- - Patrick Volkerding - for making Slackware
- - Everyone who's helped with bug reports or support on the forums/IRC
- - The residents of a variety of IRC channels (you know who you are)
- - Distributions I have taken compatability patches from; especially Cross-LFS,
        Gentoo, and OpenSUSE

Additionally, as announced previously, support for 11.0 will be dropped 
shortly.

Regards,

- -- 
Fred Emmott
(http://www.fredemmott.co.uk)
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