This has been mentioned as being in the works for a while. This isn't the official v0.5 release, but is a testing release. It is being made available so that bugs can be fixed, and so that new features and ideas might find their way into the 64- and 32-bit "Beta" (official) releases. Here are the hilights so far:
* Upgraded to Slackware/Slamd64 11.0 as the base operating system
* Upgraded to Gnome 2.18[.2] for the desktop
* Added the ability to change local timezone from live-cd menu
* Switched to AUFS (probably temporary)
* Patched SquashFS to use LZMA encryption (from Thomas M. of slax.org)
* Added debugging hooks in rc.S and rc.M
v0.4b Beta CD
epicvoyage.org: backpack-cd-0.4b-beta.iso [696.78 MB] .md5 [60 bytes]
v0.4 Beta DVD
epicvoyage.org: backpack-dvd-0.4-beta.iso [2033.32 MB] .md5 [60 bytes]
v0.4 CD Patches (for previous downloads of v0.4):
epicvoyage.org: backpack-cd-0.4b-beta.xdelta [9.34 MB] [readme]
Version 0.3
epicvoyage.org: backpack-0.3-beta.iso [692.37 MB] .md5 [56 bytes]
Version 0.2
epicvoyage.org: backpack-0.2-beta.iso [684.35 MB] .md5 [56 bytes]