Several dedicated testers have been helping to iron out our beta release over the last few weeks, and we believe it’s time that we make an announcement on the front page that Dropline GNOME 2.16.1 Pre-Release is now available!
There have been several changes since 2.14.3. As part of our efforts to slim things down, the total number of packages has been decreased by almost 13%. This was possible by eliminating rebuilds of several packages that are now included in Slackware by default, and restructuring the multimedia framework to eliminate several libraries that we felt weren’t needed. Additionally, we’ve also made the decision to discontinue the inclusion of a custom X11 build with this release, as we’ve found that Slackware’s X11 6.9.0 build was more than suitable.
Due to the large number of changes, we suggest that all users install on clean, full-installs of Slackware 11.0 (Disk 1) for the best experience. The pre-release installer is available from the following location:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dropline-gnome/dropline-installer-2.16.0-i686-2dl.tgz?download
-The dropline GNOME Development Team