Development Release: Porteus 1.2 RC1

"The Porteus community is pleased to announce the first release candidate of Porteus version 1.2 This release features the addition of the Xfce desktop environment. Other major upgrades and features include: Linux kernel bumped to version 3.2.6 in the 64-bit editions, it remains at version 3.1.8 in the 32-bit editions; KDE upgraded to 4.8.0 (64-bit KDE/LXDE edition); Trinity upgraded to 3.5.13-rc14 (32-bit KDE/LXDE edition); Xfce desktop in version 4.8.0; Firefox upgraded to version 10.0; Busybox is recompiled against new uClibc library patched for support for more than 256 loop devices.... See the release announcement for a full list of new features and links to detailed changelogs. Download: Porteus-v1.2-rc1-i486.iso (251MB), Porteus-XFCE-v1.2-rc1-i486.iso (207MB), Porteus-v1.2-rc1-x86_64.iso (274MB), Porteus-XFCE-v1.2-rc1-x86_64.iso (202MB).

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