Salix LXDE 13.37
Posted: 18. Aug 2011, 10:08
Salix LXDE 13.37 has been officially released! This release is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. For everyone that has used our previous LXDE releases there are no surprises here. The application selection has stayed the same for the most part, with all applications being upgraded to newer versions of course. Important changes in this release are the inclusion of Sourcery, our new graphical tool for managing and installing packages from SlackBuilds, which has been developed from scratch for Salix and which is featured in all our 13.37 releases so far and also the replacement of SCIM with IBus as the default input platform for Chinese, Japanese etc. IBus is more modern than SCIM and should work better with all applications. Of course, all relevant system tools have been updated to accommodate this replacement. GTKMan, a simple GUI for viewing manual pages, developed also in-house, has also been added to this release.
The LXDE release is the most lightweight Salix release so far, both in terms of download size and in terms of resources needed. More lightweight applications have been selected in place of the usual heavier ones. The default web browser is Midori, which uses the powerful webkit engine for rendering. The default mail client is Claws-mail and the transmission bittorrent client and Pidgin IM client also included. Abiword and Gnumeric are included for all your document and spreadsheet editing needs and epdfview is the default PDF viewer. Other applications included are the lightweight Whaaw! Media Player, the Exaile music manager and the Brasero disc burning application, all using the GStreamer engine as a backend. Installation of restricted codecs is, as usual, made easy with the Salix codecs installer application, available from the Multimedia menu. Viewnior is the default image file viewer and mtpaint can be used for editing them. The full set of the Salix system tools are of course included in this release. Users are able to use the Gslapt package manager, or the command line equivalent slapt-get, to install extra software in their systems from Slackware and Salix repositories, with complete support for dependency resolution. As previously noted, Sourcery is also available to make the task of building software from SlackBuilds easier, as is slapt-src, its command line equivalent. The full set of the Salix system tools are of course included in this release.
You can download the images for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, using Sourceforge or torrents, by clicking the respective links:
Salix LXDE 13.37 (32-bit) (size: 485MB, md5: 34741338167ad5dcbfe6a8257b4177aa)
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
torrent: http://salix.enialis.net/i486/13.37/iso ... so.torrent
Salix64 LXDE 13.37 (64-bit) (size: 459MB, md5: 0415b596893dac5ec2dc56160a2f5b69)
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
torrent: http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/13.37/i ... so.torrent
Have fun!
The LXDE release is the most lightweight Salix release so far, both in terms of download size and in terms of resources needed. More lightweight applications have been selected in place of the usual heavier ones. The default web browser is Midori, which uses the powerful webkit engine for rendering. The default mail client is Claws-mail and the transmission bittorrent client and Pidgin IM client also included. Abiword and Gnumeric are included for all your document and spreadsheet editing needs and epdfview is the default PDF viewer. Other applications included are the lightweight Whaaw! Media Player, the Exaile music manager and the Brasero disc burning application, all using the GStreamer engine as a backend. Installation of restricted codecs is, as usual, made easy with the Salix codecs installer application, available from the Multimedia menu. Viewnior is the default image file viewer and mtpaint can be used for editing them. The full set of the Salix system tools are of course included in this release. Users are able to use the Gslapt package manager, or the command line equivalent slapt-get, to install extra software in their systems from Slackware and Salix repositories, with complete support for dependency resolution. As previously noted, Sourcery is also available to make the task of building software from SlackBuilds easier, as is slapt-src, its command line equivalent. The full set of the Salix system tools are of course included in this release.
You can download the images for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, using Sourceforge or torrents, by clicking the respective links:
Salix LXDE 13.37 (32-bit) (size: 485MB, md5: 34741338167ad5dcbfe6a8257b4177aa)
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
torrent: http://salix.enialis.net/i486/13.37/iso ... so.torrent
Salix64 LXDE 13.37 (64-bit) (size: 459MB, md5: 0415b596893dac5ec2dc56160a2f5b69)
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
torrent: http://salix.enialis.net/x86_64/13.37/i ... so.torrent
Have fun!