Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com> writes:
Source: http://www.slackware.com/announce/14.0.php
Yes, it is that time again! After well over a year of planning,
development, and testing, the Slackware Linux Project is proud to
announce the latest stable release of the longest running distribution
of the Linux operating system, Slackware version 14.0!
We are sure you'll enjoy the many improvements. We've done our best
to bring the latest technology to Slackware while still maintaining the
stability and security that you have come to expect. Slackware is well
known for its simplicity and the fact that we try to bring software to
you in the condition that the authors intended.
Slackware 14.0 brings many updates and enhancements, among which
you'll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available
today: Xfce 4.10.0, a fast and lightweight but visually appealing and
easy to use desktop environment, and KDE 4.8.5, a recent stable release
of the 4.8.x series of the award-winning KDE desktop environment.
These desktops utilize udev, udisks, and udisks2, and many of the
specifications from freedesktop.org which allow the system administrator
to grant use of various hardware devices according to users' group
membership so that they will be able to use items such as USB flash
sticks, USB cameras that appear like USB storage, portable hard drives,
CD and DVD media, MP3 players, and more, all without requiring sudo, the
mount or umount command. Just plug and play. Slackware's desktop
should be suitable for any level of Linux experience.
Downloading Slackware 14.0:
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The full version of Slackware Linux 14.0 is available for download
from the central Slackware FTP site hosted by our friends at osuosl.org:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/
If the sites are busy, see the list of official mirror sites here:
http://mirrors.slackware.com