I am almost there! The new SLAMPP will come soon with the following highlights:
- Using kernel linux 2.6.28.7, patched with everything needed to work with the latest Linux Live script
- Based on Zenwalk 6.0 and inherits almost of all its characteristics and tools
- Getting packages from Zenwalk, native Slackware 12.2, SlackBuilds and Slacky.eu repositories
- Packages which are not found on the above resources are compiled directly from the source
- Equipped with full set of development libraries and interpreters to ease your package compilation process
- Following applications are compiled on to SLAMPP: (details would be provided later on)
- Servers: Apache 2, BIND, dnsmasq, dhcp, Samba, NFS, Pure-FTPD, Squid, MySQL, OpenLDAP, OpenSSH, SQLite, Git, Subversion, Qmailrocks packages, and many more
- Network and IDS utilities: ntop, cacti, nagios, nessus, snort, rkhunter, chkrootkit, honeyd + honeycombo, oinkmaster, nmap, Wireshark, HTTrack, TightVNC, rdesktop, GAdmin Tools collection, and many more
- System Administration: Webmin and Usermin
- Programming languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua
- Editor: Bluefish, Geany, mousepad, Hex editor
- Office: Open Office, epdfview
- Graphics: The GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Dia
- Multimedia: Brasero, goobox, Exaile, Totem
- Miscellaneous utilities: Firestarter, GParted, htop, Grsync, ndiswrapper, Wicd, Live CD Hard Disk installer, Disk Manager, Lilo installer, GNOME network tools and servers/services control panel
- Package management: Netpkg, slapt-get/gslapt, pkgtools, slackpkg
- Desktop Environment: XFCE 4.6
That would be all. FYI, this new release will be completely incompatible with the previous releases. Therefore, no upgrade feature will be provided. Having said that, I strongly recommend you to do a fresh install with this upcoming release if you intend to have it run permanently on your PC.
When are you going to release it ? Hopefully I will be able to announce it publicly by the end of this month or within the first week of July. Stay tuned.
Thank you.
Update:
I forgot to mention something. Starting from this release, besides the version information, I will give a release a name. The name of SLAMPP 2.0 is Kalinda. I name it after my daughter’s name. 🙂
