Slamd64 12.2 is released, and is an incremental improvement over 12.1, including: - Linux 2.6.27.7 - GCC 4.2.4 - Apache HTTPD 2.2.10, with SSL support and PHP 5.2.8 - Updated development tools - KDE 3.5.10 - XFCE 4.4.3 - Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 - Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 - Sun Java (JRE and JDK) 6u11 Like previous releases of Slamd64, 12.2 provides seamless FHS-compliant 32-bit compatibility, via a multilib system (/lib for 32-bit libraries and /lib64 for 64-bit libraries). This provides easier and increased support for both existing 32-bit software (in most cases, you can just install a package designed for Slackware with no special work needed), and for 64-bit binaries too (which require /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 to be present) such as the NVidia drivers, without requiring compatability symlinks which clutter the root directory and remove the separation of 32 and 64-bit binaries. nspluginwrapper is still included in c/, allowing you to easily use 32-bit browser plugins (such as Adobe Flash) in the included 64-bit browsers, such as Firefox and Konqueror - given the availability of prerelease 64-bit versions of Adobe Flash Player and Sun's Java Plugin, this will hopefully vanish soon. As per usual, there's several people that really deserve my thanks: - Carlos Corbacho - again, a huge amount of contributions to Slamd64, in many areas. - Andrew Brouwers - many contributions and support. - Joshua Wood - many contributions and support. - Patrick Volkerding - for making Slackware - Everyone who's helped with bug reports or support on the forums/IRC - The residents of a variety of IRC channels (you know who you are) - Distributions I have taken compatability patches from; especially Cross-LFS, Gentoo, and OpenSUSE Additionally, as announced previously, support for 11.0 will be dropped shortly.