Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
According to an announcement from the Slackware project, which is run by Patrick Volkerding, the biggest change from the previous releae, 12.2, is the addition of an official 64-bit port.
Volkerding is a geek who started the Slackware project back in early 1993. As he told me during an interview back in 2002, Slackware was his attempt to address problems faced by people who were trying to use SoftLanding System Linux, the first and only commercial Linux at the time.
Slackware has been able to balance its books due to a loyal following and also due to the fact that it is more or less run by a few people..
Volkerding made the decision in 1994 that he would have to find some way to fund the project if he wanted to keep it going. Sales of CDs, DVDs and other merchandise has helped the project to reach its 16th year.
Version 13 has reworked X packages, major upgrades to the desktop environments (KDE version 4.2.4 and Xfce version 4.6.1), and a new .txz package format with much better compression.
Volkerding decided to junk the GNOME despktop from Slackware some four years ago. However, there are otherswho package GNOME for Slackware.
The release notes are here and torrents are available here .
David Bass
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