Salix Xfce 14.2RC1 (32-bit) and 14.2RC2 (64-bit)
Posted: 10. Aug 2016, 20:37
OK, so here is Salix Xfce 14.2RC1! It's been two months since the beta, which has received a good round of testing by now and we're even closer to getting a final release. All new features are finally in and with any luck, we've found all major bugs and we'll just be able to rename this release to final in about 10 days or so.
So, what's new compared to the last beta release? First of all, we have two new GUI system tools, both developed in-house. The first one, GUEFI, is a graphical boot manager for UEFI systems and therefore is only available on 64-bit installations using UEFI. You can use it to create/delete/edit/rearrange UEFI boot entries and I don't think there is any other distribution out there with anything similar. Then, we have gtkreposetup, which is the GTK counterpart to the console reposetup tool, and which you can use to select your preferred repository mirror.
The installer has been fully localized to several languages by now, thanks to our translators. So, this release can be installed using the installer in English (both US and GB), Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish (both Spain and Costa-Rica), Swedish and Ukraine. Other translations that were only partially complete were removed at this point, but of course will be included in future releases if they be completed.
There are some things that were also removed compared to the last beta. First of all, the autoinstall option is gone from the installer. I realized nobody was using it. In fact, it has been completely broken in the beta and nobody reported it. Also, lilosetup has been removed from the iso. This tool was written by a member that is not active anymore and has fallen back on updates. Since it is more crucial to the SalixLive releases, I expect it will receive some love before those are released...
Other than that, all software has been updated to newer versions, translations to all Salix tools has been updated and hopefully all bugs found in the beta have been resolved.
So, you can download this release, either the 32-bit or 64-bit isos, using your browser through Sourceforge, or by using your torrent client. Links are:
Salix Xfce 14.2RC1 (32-bit, i586/i686)
(size: 955MB, md5: 0ad525a2aa650956f299c5310f7b509a)
Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/ ... o/download
torrent: http://people.salixos.org/gapan/iso/sal ... C1.torrent
Salix64 Xfce 14.2RC2 (64-bit, x86_64)
(size: 1012MB, md5: 7285287aece50b2ff60a574717c3ecab)
Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/ ... o/download
torrent: http://people.salixos.org/gapan/iso/sal ... C2.torrent
Please give these a final round of testing, so we can have a final release soon. Thanks!
EDIT: the 64bit iso has been bumped to 14.2RC2 to hopefully fix a problem with UEFI booting. The 32bit iso stays at RC1, as there is no UEFI support with it anyway.
So, what's new compared to the last beta release? First of all, we have two new GUI system tools, both developed in-house. The first one, GUEFI, is a graphical boot manager for UEFI systems and therefore is only available on 64-bit installations using UEFI. You can use it to create/delete/edit/rearrange UEFI boot entries and I don't think there is any other distribution out there with anything similar. Then, we have gtkreposetup, which is the GTK counterpart to the console reposetup tool, and which you can use to select your preferred repository mirror.
The installer has been fully localized to several languages by now, thanks to our translators. So, this release can be installed using the installer in English (both US and GB), Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish (both Spain and Costa-Rica), Swedish and Ukraine. Other translations that were only partially complete were removed at this point, but of course will be included in future releases if they be completed.
There are some things that were also removed compared to the last beta. First of all, the autoinstall option is gone from the installer. I realized nobody was using it. In fact, it has been completely broken in the beta and nobody reported it. Also, lilosetup has been removed from the iso. This tool was written by a member that is not active anymore and has fallen back on updates. Since it is more crucial to the SalixLive releases, I expect it will receive some love before those are released...
Other than that, all software has been updated to newer versions, translations to all Salix tools has been updated and hopefully all bugs found in the beta have been resolved.
So, you can download this release, either the 32-bit or 64-bit isos, using your browser through Sourceforge, or by using your torrent client. Links are:
Salix Xfce 14.2RC1 (32-bit, i586/i686)
(size: 955MB, md5: 0ad525a2aa650956f299c5310f7b509a)
Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/ ... o/download
torrent: http://people.salixos.org/gapan/iso/sal ... C1.torrent
Salix64 Xfce 14.2RC2 (64-bit, x86_64)
(size: 1012MB, md5: 7285287aece50b2ff60a574717c3ecab)
Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/ ... o/download
torrent: http://people.salixos.org/gapan/iso/sal ... C2.torrent
Please give these a final round of testing, so we can have a final release soon. Thanks!
EDIT: the 64bit iso has been bumped to 14.2RC2 to hopefully fix a problem with UEFI booting. The 32bit iso stays at RC1, as there is no UEFI support with it anyway.