Marius Nestor
The development cycle of the
Slackware-based Zenwalk 8.0 Linux kernel-based operating system
continues, and its maintainers have announced the release of the third
Beta build.
Zenwalk 8.0 entered development in mid-January 2016
with the first Beta release, and early adopters were able to get their
hands on the second Beta build during the first week of February. Now,
approximately eight weeks later, we can test the third Beta of the
upcoming operating system.
According to the release notes, Zenwalk 8.0 Beta 3
adds various software updates, among which we can mention the latest
LibreOffice 5.1.1 office suite, Chromium 49.0 web browser, MPlayer 1.3
video player, FFmpeg 3.0 multimedia backend, and multiple under the hood
changes (see below for details).
"Many, many updates between Beta 2 and Beta 3
including FFmpeg 3, MPlayer 1.3, latest Chromium 49, latest LibreOffice
5.1.1, and a few changes at desktop level," reads the announcement. "And, last but not least, for your security a "diod" firewall service has been added."
PulseAudio volume mixer is now installed by default
Among the under-the-hood improvements implemented in
the third Beta release of Zenwalk 8.0, we can mention the the
PulseAudio volume mixer is now installed by default, several system
utilies received improvements, and the default desktop environment has
been tweeked to offer intelligent hiding of the back panel.
Furthermore, the polkit application-level toolkit is
now integrated into the desktop environment, providing users with a
great Elevated Privileges Management (EPM) tool, and all the audio
production software have been updated to their latest version at the
moment of writing this article.
You can download Zenwalk 8.0 Beta 3
right now from our website, but don't forget that it's still a
pre-release version, not suitable for deployment in production
environments. Installable-only ISO images are provided only for the
64-bit (x86_64) hardware architecture.
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