Salix Xfce 13.1.2 images are released!

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of the collection of Salix Xfce 13.1.2 iso images. These include both 32-bit and 64-bit standard installation images, as well as a 32-bit live image, that can be used with an optical disk or a usb drive. Both standard and live images can be used for installing Salix Xfce to your harddrive, using a text-mode or a graphical installer respectively. As with all Salix releases, installation can be performed in one of three different modes, "full", "basic" and "core". The live image includes, among others, a persistence wizard, that will let the user keep changes, including extra installed packages, personalization etc, between different live sessions. LiveClone is another tool specific to the live image; using it users will be able to easily roll their own custom version of the Salix Xfce Live, that they will be able to install directly to a usb drive or create a new iso image for burning to a CD. These custom images will have all the features the official live image has, including the ability to install the customized system to a harddrive!

One of the most important additions in Salix Xfce 13.1.2 is the inclusion of slapt-src, a new tool that makes the process of downloading and building software packages from slackbuilds.org simple and easy. Thousands of extra packages are now available through it for our users. Other changes in version 13.1.2 include:
* Updated kernel that fixes significant security issues in the 64-bit edition
* glibc has been upgraded, fixing multiple security issues
* Zim, a desktop wiki application, has been added to the default full mode installation.
* Meld, a graphical diff tool, has been added to the default full mode installation. It can also be used by the dotnew utility to compare new and old system settings files.
* All system administration tools are updated with translations for even more languages, including, but not limited to, french, german, greek, italian, dutch, spanish, japanese, ukranian, swedish and more! About dialogs including credits for all translators have been added to all system tools. A big thanks goes to all contributors, it wouldn't have been possible to provide that level of internationalization without all of you.
* New firefox packages are included, updated to the latest stable version avaiable, that also fixes a problem where it was not possible to change the default homepage.
* Persistence now works properly in all systems with the live CD, using the persistence wizard available on the live CD desktop.
* gvfs has been upgraded, to fix segfaults with bluefish in 64-bit systems, which is now available in both 32-bit and 64-bit repositories.
* Several other minor updates and fixes.

You can download any of the three Salix Xfce 13.1.2 images from SourceForge or with a torrent client, using the following links:

Salix Xfce 13.1.2 installation image (32-bit):
(size: 583 MB, md5: f7de7eae73ada32a78b3dd8ddca4308d)
SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
Slackel mirror (US): http://www.slackel.gr/isos/salix-xfce/s ... 13.1.2.iso
torrent: http://salix.enialis.net/i486/13.1/iso/ ... so.torrent

Salix64 Xfce 13.1.2 installation image (64-bit):
(size: 563 MB, md5: fb6fa6ec1beec958bf9cc374d09ceaf7)
SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
torrent: http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/13.1/is ... so.torrent

Salix Live Xfce 13.1.2 image (32-bit):
(size: 671 MB, md5: 503479c8ff5cdd2c1437a02001030af2)
SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
Slackel mirror (US): http://www.slackel.gr/isos/salix-xfce/s ... 13.1.2.iso
torrent: http://salix.enialis.net/i486/13.1/iso/ ... so.torrent
(root password: live) (standard user login: one / no password)

A DVD-sized iso image with complete source code for all software, that corresponds to these releases is available through our downloads page, along with all other Salix images available: http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/Download

Enjoy!

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