Fwd: [slackware-announce] Slackware 8.1 released

[Yannis Kotsinos]

Announcing Slackware Linux 8.1!

The first major release for 2001, Slackware Linux 8.1 continues the
Slackware tradition of simplicity, stability, and security.  It is the
essential Linux distribution from the team that knows Linux inside and
out.  Among the many program updates and distribution enhancements, you'll
find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: GNOME
1.4.1 (with a large collection of pre-compiled GNOME applications), and
KDE 3.0.1, the latest version of the award-winning K Desktop Environment.
Slackware now uses the 2.4.18 kernel bringing you advanced performance
features such as the ReiserFS journaling filesystem, SCSI and ATA RAID
volume support, and kernel support for XFree86's DRI (the Direct Rendering
Interface) that brings high-speed hardware accelerated 3D graphics to
Linux.  Additional kernels allow installing Slackware using any of the
journaling filesystems available for Linux, including ext3, ReiserFS,
IBM's JFS, and SGI's XFS.