[ILUG-BOM] Minislack 0.4 Distribution Released

Gaurav Mishra gauravtechie@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Sun Mar 27 12:14:27 IST 2005


Minislack Linux aims to be focused on Internet application, multimedia
and coding tools. It's a complete system : this means that you'll be
able tu browse, mail, chat, listen to music, watch videos in various
formats, write documents, print, scan, burn CD and DVD, connect your
camera and edit your photographs, without adding anything. Coders will
like the full set of development libraries and interpreters.

Minislack has the following objectives : 

Be simple, fast and reliable 
Provide one application for one task 
Provide coding tools and libraries 
Be small so that it can be distributed on a single 400MB ISO image 

Some features of the current version are : 

Kernel(2.6.11.4) with support for USB, scsi, acpi, pcmcia, bluetooth,
Framebuffer, sata...
gcc(3.3.5),JRE(1.5.0_01), Python(2.4),Perl(5.8.6) 
Windowmaker(0.91), XFCE(4.2) 
Mozilla-firefox(1.0.1)/thunderbird(1.0), Abiword(2.0.12),
Gnumeric(1.2.13), Dia(0.94), Gimp(2.2.3)
Anjuta(1.2.2), Bluefish(1.0), Gedit(2.6.1), Gvim(6.3) 
Alsa(1.0.8), Xine(1.0), Gnomebaker(0.3), Beep-media-player(0.9.7)



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