Absolute Linux 13.1.5

Absolute Linux is a light-weight modification of Slackware Linux. It includes several utilities that make configuration and maintenance easier and it has many common desktop and Internet applications installed and configured with tight integration of menus, applications and MIME types. Absolute Linux uses IceWM and ROX for its window and file managers.

This is Slackware 12.0 modification. Features kernel 2.6.21.5 (smp) and implements auto-mounting capabilities for devices and media. Updates to Hal and DevTray installation since last release. 586 is NOT supported for now, so don't try to load on a Pentium I or a k6-2 processor. Devices are not actually mounted automatically -- their icons appear in a panel BELOW the taskbar. When you want to look, click the arrow on the right of the taskbar, that bar will slide off to the right, and the devices listed by DevTray appear on the lower panel.

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Home_http://www.pcbypaul.com/absolute/
Downloads (~669 Mb)_http://www.ibiblio.or...olute_12.0.zip

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Downloads (~667 Mb)_http://www.ibiblio.or...ute_12.0.1.zip

BUG FIX: Where rebooting with sata drive wiped its entry in fstab (so no boot if sata was boot drive)
fixed clearFstab, a script to wipe fstab entries of mountable devices due
to switching between auto and non-auto mounting -- so that it does not wipe
fstab entries for sata drives set in Lilo
ndiswrapper > updated due to compile error
Geting Started document shortcut put on user as well as root desktop.
Also includes 1st_RUN_INFO.htmlL file with some appropriate facts
Removed XTRA version of linux-wlan-ng
Removed grub for the time being

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Downloads_http://www.ibiblio.or...ute_12.0.2.zip

Pardon the rapid-fire release, but the kernel source was misconfigured and the kernel size was too large for older PCs. Also, the source code for ROX was altered for nice interface additions, NTFS read-write was implemented, and K3b now works for user accounts without any extra configuration." Some other interesting items from the changelog: "Updated IceWM, added background color change menu item to 'Settings'; added mime-type to ROX to handle .mp4 audio files (m4a and friends) with Audacious, if not encrypted they will play; updated AbScreen; added nvidia-settings to main menu.

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Downloads (~656 Mb)_http://www.ibiblio.or...ute_12.0.4.zip

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Downloads (~661 Mb)_http://www.ibiblio.or...ute_12.0.5.zip

Midnight Commander, Dillo and Ggradebook added to default packages; XDM updated for nice graphical login, when desired; IceWM update to include menu item to switch between graphical or text-based login, checkers menu item changed for better display; etc package now includes script that switches login type; DevTray - pulled AlsaAudio card handler, this originally had a bug with SB Live cards, takes up memory, and does nothing Absolute does not already do. Also new DevTray icon and tooltip, to avoid confusion; PyAlsaAudio and alsamixergui removed; GIMP updated to 2.4.0rc3; updated handler for GIMP in SendTo for images and PDFs; GQView downgraded to version 2.0.4 due to CPU usage maxing out....

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Downloads (~692 Mb)_http://downloads.sour...ute-12.0.6.iso

Absolute 12.0.7 released. Fairly extensive changes in terms of bug removal and added features. Major fixes include mounted external volumes writable by users as well as root. The clearFstab script was tamed, GUI login no longer leads to any missing resources problems, GIMP scripts were patched to ensure that they work with new 2.4 series, ePDFView replaces xPDF as default PDF viewer, Firefox updated and now also includes all header files to compile web-apps against, installer available (as root) for folks lucky enough to legally use 'restricted' multimedia files, Audacity 1.3.3 included, CheckInstall version 1.5.3 works and has been patched to behave nicely... and lots more.

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Downloads (~695 Mb)_http://downloads.sour...ute-12.0.7.iso

Absolute Linux 12.1.02. Changes: Firefox updated to 3.0, this necessitated installation of XULRunner 1.9, which can also subsequently be used to build Firebird and other applications; MPlayer plugin on Firefox 3 is a wash - had to go with gecko-mplayer; updated PCMan File Manager with much more robust handling of file types; added isomaster for working with CD image files; added KFileReplace; added a few games (Monsterz, LBreakout2, Njam and BumpRace); added scripts and desktop files to convert FLV and OGG video to AVI; added lshw, along with script (run_lshw) that outputs in HTML format and opens the results in Links; updated to xorg-server 1.4.2; Fox (toolkit) and Fluxbox moved to CD2.

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Downloads (~673 Mb)_http://www.ibiblio.or...te_12.1.02.zip

Updated firefox to 3.0.1; Updated nasm, dnsmasq and e2fsprogs, as well as ati, nv and intel video drivers; Added video drivers for Mach64 and r128; Mesa updated to 7.0.3 (bugfix release); Removed HPLIP for the time being; Tweaked .desktop file for avidemux and ROX sendto handling; Corrected unneeded import of wx in absAddUser.py script (causing it not to run on default install without wxPython installed).

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Downloads (~665 Mb)_http://www.ibiblio.or...te_12.1.03.zip

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Downloads (~671 Mb)_http://www.ibiblio.or...te_12.1.04.zip