Slackware Linux 14.1 RC1发布

以稳定著称的发行版Slackware也同样有着稳定的发布间隔，在距离上一个版本14.0发布一年之后的现在，Slackare 14.1的Release也即将进入倒计时，UTC时间14号晚22点09分，Slackware作者在Slackware主镜像站进行了更新，并且说明现版本已经是14.1 RC1版本。从原文中来推测，在这个RC之后就会是真正的Release版了（没有Endless的RC真好）。Slackware 14.1相比14.0有诸多升级，除了内核升级到3.10以外，还将MySQL替换为了MariaDB，同时终于在LILO之外加入了GRUB2，绝对值得期待！

以下是作者声明的原文：

Mon Oct 14 22:09:17 UTC 2013
And with this batch of updates and fixes (clearing the rest of the
important stuff from the TODO list), we have arrived at Slackware 14.1
release candidate 1! Please test and report any remaining issues.
UEFI (with the exception of Secure Boot, which will have to wait until
we have real hardware) should be fully implemented in the installer now,
which will detect and warn about common problems, set up the EFI System
Partition under /boot/efi, and install ELILO and a UEFI boot entry
automatically. There's a new README_UEFI.TXT file with detailed
instructions for installing 64-bit Slackware on UEFI (32-bit won't
support native UEFI due to the mismatch between 64-bit UEFI firmware and
a 32-bit kernel, so Legacy BIOS will be the only way to install 32-bit
Slackware on UEFI). Several useful netfilter and networking utilities
have been added (thanks to Robby Workman and /dev/rob0 for these).
With this batch of updates, everything should be considered frozen
(including the kernel) unless there's a good reason to change something.
Enjoy! See you all for the release, hopefully soon. :-)

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