Slackware lets Linux 9.0 loose

By Alun Williams

Posted on 21 Mar 2003 at 12:34

Built around version 2.4.20 of the Linux kernel, Slackware Linux 9.0 has been officially released.

The venerable Slackware system is designed to be one of the more accessible Linux distros. Slackware claims its PC-based offering provides a stable and secure Linux for Unix veterans but also an easy-to-use system for beginners.

Included in version 9.0 is: support for fully encrypted network connections using OpenSSL, OpenSSH, and GnuPG; improved printing services; Apache 1.3.27 web server; a collection of GTK applications, such as gimp-1.2.3 and abiword-1.0.4; the GCC 3.2.2 compiler (for C, C++, Objective-C and Fortran-77); and XFree86 4.3.0 for 3D graphics.

KDE 3.1 and GNOME 2.2 are supplied as desktop environments. Browsers include Netscape Communicator 7.02, Konqueror 3.1, and Mozilla 1.3.

You can read more info about the release at slackware.com/announce/

You can freely download the system from the ftp site slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/ or the mirror suites listed at slackware.com/getslack. It will cost you $39.95 to buy Slackware Linux 9.0 on CD-ROM. As well as the four-disc set you will have the satisfaction of helping fund future Slackware Linux development.