The Slackware team last week released version 13 of its venerable Linux distribution, now supporting 64-bit computers. The new release also provides “completely reworked” X packages, upgrades to KDE 4.2.4 and Xfce 4.6.1 desktops, a new .txz package format, and support for Ext4 and the GRUB bootloader, says the project.

Touted as focusing on ease of use and stability as top priorities, Slackware is also known as “the oldest surviving Linux distro,” predating even the first desktop version of Red Hat Linux. Over the years, it has spawned a number of other distributions, including Minislack and GoblinX. The last major upgrade version 12, arrived in July, 2007.

Slackware 13 also includes support for the increasingly common 64-bit x86_64 architecture.

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