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| 2009-11-05 |
Development Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux Cooking 20091104 |
| Christophe Lincoln has announced that a new development build of SliTaz GNU/Linux 5.4, a minimalist distribution with Openbox designed for older computers, is ready for testing: "SliTaz contributors are proud to announce the availability of a new Cooking ISO image based on over 2,100 packages available in the SliTaz repository. The full system has been rebuilt with a new toolchain using glibc 2.10.1 and GCC 4.4.1. This new Cooking uses the Linux kernel 2.6.30.6 with better hardware support and more built-in modules. The boot process has been further improved and the boot time is now faster than ever. Major packages found on the live CD, such as Firefox, have been updated to the current stable version. The tazpkg package manager supports new features, including the conversion of DEB, RPM, Arch, Slackware and IPK packages to SliTaz's native format." Visit the project's news page to read the release announcement. Download: slitaz-cooking.iso (31.5MB, MD5). |
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| 2009-04-17 |
Distribution Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux 2.0 |
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| Christophe Lincoln has released SliTaz GNU/Linux 2.0, a fast, independent mini-distribution and live CD: "SliTaz GNU/Linux 2.0 is released after a year of hard work. Based on version 1.0, SliTaz comprises of 1400 software packages easily installable via the 'tazpkg' package manager. The live CD can be fully configured to taste to easily create a custom distribution specifically for tasks such as multimedia, graphics or development. Some of the new features in this release include: better hardware support for WiFi, Windows drivers, NTFS and low memory systems; easier customization to roll your own distro; web boot support; Openbox replaces JWM as the window manager; more tiny graphical utilities for administration, setting preferences, system upgrade, etc. The distribution is available in English, German, French and Portuguese." Read the detailed release notes for further information. Download: slitaz-2.0.iso (29.7MB, MD5). |
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| 2009-02-28 |
Development Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux Cooking-20090228 |
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| Christophe Lincoln has announced the availability of a new test build of SliTaz GNU/Linux 2.0, a minimalist desktop distribution in under 30 MB: "Getting ready for the next stable release, the SliTaz project is proud to publish a new Cooking version with many bug fixes, updates, improvements and new futures. PCI/USB device auto-detection is now handled by Tazhw and firmware can be installed with one click trough a graphical interface. Tazndis have also a simple box who let you manage Windows drivers in a user-friendly interface. The graphical package manager is much easier to use, the Live USB media can easily be created through a box. The desktop has a box to enable or disable applications started with the Openbox session and Ivman provides a lightweight notification system." Visit the project's home page to read the release announcement. Download: slitaz-cooking.iso (28.6MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-07-17 |
Development Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux Cooking 20080716 |
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| Christophe Lincoln announced a new beta (called Cooking) release of SliTaz GNU/Linux, perhaps the smallest desktop distribution on earth: "So, we released a new Cooking version with a lot of improvement from 1.0. SliTaz use Openbox has default Window manager and Obconf to configure it graphically, update to Kernel 2.6.25.5 with build-in support for XFS and wifi through the packages manager. The desktop avec icons, Packages can now be managed through the graphical Packages Manager Tazpkgbox. The image ISO of 28.6 MB provides also MPlayer, Notecase, Lua, Hardinfo, many updates and more than 200 packages added to the repository. SliTaz can now also boot from the Internet! Web boot for everyone with gPXE and http://boot.slitaz.org/." Read the official release announcement titled "Cooking 20080716 - Web boot and MPlayer" on SliTaz website. Download: slitaz-cooking.iso (28.6MB, MD5). |
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| September 2009 |
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At one point or another gamers can hit the wall when using other OS systems such as Linux and Mac, as Windows has always been renowned as the OS of choice for the gaming community. In a lot of cases this has changed somewhat over the last few years with the use of virtualization software that helps to bridge that gap, and it can be quite successful to a point. Of course, when you virtualize another OS you can lose some of the performance, than say running a game natively, and with slowdowns and bugs comes frustration. We have listed a few resources that we think are worth a mention for different types of gamers, both online multiplayer and single player, see what you think:
- World of Goo. This is a great puzzle game that will keep you busy for hours, there's also a free playable demo version.
- If you're a online poker enthusiast we can recommend you check out the pokerlistings.com Linux poker page, it has a list of poker apps that are compatible with your OS.
- For the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) crowds you could always take a look at Vendetta online, "thousands of people can play together, at the same time, in a single, persistent universe", sounds great!
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