Slackware 14.0 RC2 Released

Patrick Vokerding today announced Release Candidate 2 for the upcoming Slackware 14.0 in his usual understated way. In the latest changelog, Vokerding said, "Getting close! Hopefully we've cleared out most of the remaining issues and are nearly ready here."

Some of the new packages include:

* amarok 2.6.0

* audacious-3.3.1

* bash 4.2.037

* btrfs-progs-20120810

* ccache-3.1.8

* coreutil-8.18

* db48

* geeqie-1.1

* gnutls-3.0.22

* kde 4.8.5

* liblastfm-1.0.1

* Linux 3.2.27

* lxc-0.7.5

* mpg123-1.14.4

* phonon-gstreamer-4.6.2

* rpm 4.10

* scim-1.4.14

* smartmontools-5.43

* usb_modeswitch-1.2.4

* wget-1.14

Test Slackware 14.0 RC2 for i386 here and x64 here.