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Slackware.org: Announcing Slackware Linux 9.1!

[ Thanks to n0dez
for this link. ]

“The second Slackware release in the 9.x series (based on the
GCC 3.2.3 compiler), Slackware Linux 9.1 continues the ten-year
Slackware tradition of simplicity, stability, and security.

“Among the many program updates and distribution enhancements,
you’ll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available
today: GNOME 2.4.0 (with a large collection of pre-compiled GNOME
applications), and KDE 3.1.4, the latest version of the
award-winning K Desktop Environment. Slackware now uses the 2.4.22
kernel bringing you advanced performance features such as the
ReiserFS journaling filesystem, SCSI and ATA RAID volume support,
and kernel support for XFree86’s DRI (the Direct Rendering
Interface) that brings high-speed hardware accelerated 3D graphics
to Linux. Additional kernels allow installing Slackware using any
of the journaling filesystems available for Linux, including ext3,
ReiserFS, IBM’s JFS, and SGI’s XFS…”

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