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Slackware 12.0 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the that's-two-ahead-of-os-x dept.

Matt writes "Straight from our good friend and colleague in the fight for quality distributions, Mr. Patrick Volkerding, comes a brand-new and eagerly-awaited release of Slackware, version 12. HAL automount, KDE 3.5.7 and XFCE 4.4.1, Xorg 7.2, 2.6 kernels as far as the eye can see, oodles of updated applications and utilities, and hardware support for just about anything under the sun. Get it here. Enjoy! I know I will."

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  1. no ZFS, lame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We've been testing ZFS with OpenSolaris and FreeBSD and keep getting impressed by the things it can do. Like clones, which are effectively a free copy-on-write hard link. We do a lot of zoned/jailed virtual servers. ZFS makes it easy; just set up the default install and take a snapshot of it. When we need to create a new zone, we just make a clone of the snapshot (It takes up no space and no time). As new files are added/edited, each zone has their own copy, but 90% of the files are shared, so we avoid wasting disk space. If we could do that with UML or Xen, we would. But we can't, so we don't.