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Slax 7.0.7 available, even in Turkish

In order to fix the strange issues with task bar, I've pushed out a new version of Slax, numbered 7.0.7. Furthermore I've been able to identify strange problem which happened to Slax Turkish version - it never worked at all. The reason for that was somehow unclear to me till now.

Each release of Slax (for all languages) is about 50GB. But I do not upload all the 50GB of data to Slax server, instead I upload just two ISOs (32bit and 64bit) with English language and all the other languages as separate modules (it's like 800MB or so in total only). Then I run a script at the server to generate all the ISOs with all the supported translations. And that script was using LANG variable to store currently processed language. I didn't realize that LANG actually is a variable which has some special meaning for some programs, including mkisofs, which was simply not able to generate correct ISO image when LANG=Turkish was set. Anyway, this has now been fixed (LANG renamed to MYLANG in my script) and Turkish people can enjoy Slax on CD too! :)

User comments

Thiago Silvino 2013-03-15 13:09

Good finding let's download the new version. Do you plan to make a diff bundle to the releases?

rtcvb32@yahoo.com 2013-03-15 16:15

New setup of 7 looks nice, and glad to see a new version.

However trying it out in a VirtualBox it's very very slow in the GUI; For me functionality & speed is a lot more important than effects; I don't suppose there's options for the GUI, default settings, or a module that can be used to speed it up considerably?

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo 2013-03-15 17:29

Yes, diff update or delta update would be very nice, so reducing time to download the whole ISO or zip file whenever new releases are out

sorajio 2013-03-15 18:25

thanks for ur work . although it didn`t fixed in 7.07 Chinese like it in 7.06