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Slackware 8.1 is Released

Posted by timothy on from the free-toilet-paper-with-cd-purchase dept.

MrSnivvel writes: "Slackware 8.1 has been released. Highlights of this release include KDE 3.0.1, GNOME 1.4.1 (with new additions like Evolution), the long-awaited Mozilla 1.0 browser, support for many new filesystems like ext3, ReiserFS, JFS, and XFS, and support for several new SCSI and ATA RAID controllers. Remember to buy your copies at http://store.slackware.com. List of download mirrors here. Public releases of Mozilla AND Slackware in the same month, I'm so happy I've soiled myself."

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  1. Nice! by bjtuna · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wonder how long till The Slackware Administrators' Security Toolkit will have an 8.1 version.

    Anyway, go Patrick!

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    1. Re:Nice! by bjtuna · · Score: 3, Informative

      erm, that should have been:

      www.sastk.org

      darn typos.

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    2. Re:Nice! by BrokenHalo · · Score: 2, Informative

      Who cares? Slackware (IMHO) is so much easier to administer manually than any other distro I've tried (which is, unfortunately, more a reflection on the dependency hell I've run into with RPM-based systems in the past, but that has been a subject for other postings). My (updated) Slack 8.0 system is running so smoothly, I think I'll wait for a couple of weeks before I upgrade, though...

  2. List of unofficial mirrors here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    rsync://slackware.orbital.us/slackware/slackware-8 . /
    rsync://slackware.orbital.us/slackware/slackware -8 . -iso/
    ftp://slackware.orbital.us/slackware/slackware-8 .1 /
    ftp://slackware.orbital.us/slackware/slackware-8 .1 -iso/

    rsync://rsync.devney.net/slackware/slackware-8.1 -i so/
    ftp://devney.net/slackware-8.1-iso/

    rsync://drazi.ifjf.uib.no/slackware/slackware-8. 1/
    rsync://drazi.ifjf.uib.no/slackware/slackware-8. 1- iso

    ftp://inferno.bioinformatics.vt.edu/linux-distro s/ slackware/slackware-8.1/
    ftp://inferno.bioinformatics.vt.edu/linux-distro s/ slackware/slackware-8.1-iso/

    rsync://rsync.rez-gif.supelec.fr/pub/slackware/s la ckware-current/
    ftp://ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr/pub/slackware/slack wa re-current/

    rsync://closeedge.net/slackware/slackware-8.1/
    ftp://closeedge.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.slackware.co m/ slackware-8.1/

    ftp://ftp.linux.ucla.edu/pub/slackware/slackware -8 . /

    rsync://mindflux.dns2go.com/slackware/slackware- 8. 1/

    rsync://stalecracker.org/slackware/slackware-8.1 /
    ftp://stalecracker.org:2121/pub/slackware-8.1/
    rsync://diethanks.dyndns.org/slackware/

    rsync://alphageek.dyndns.org/slackware/slackware -8 . /
    rsync://alphageek.dyndns.org/slackware/slackware -8 . -iso/
    ftp://alphageek.dyndns.org/slackware/slackware-8 .1 /
    ftp://alphageek.dyndns.org/slackware/slackware-8 .1 -iso/

  3. Re:how many floppies by stikves · · Score: 4, Informative
    slackware no longer supports "any" floppy installation.


    It used to support full floppy installation before (I guess) 7.0. After that you could only install bas and network series with floppies.


    Now they have dropped all floppy support and merged a1, a2, a3.. into a. (a1 a2 were base system floppies).


    Anyways go try it. I used pre8.1 images from slackware-current. It realy rocks. If you need floppy installation, you have to copy everything to a hard drive and boot setup from floppies (almost every distro does it this way).

  4. Re:somewhere to buy in NL? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    slackware.com store

  5. Re:reinstall? by zloppy303 · · Score: 2, Informative

    this time i recommend you DO reformat your drives, with a journalling filesystem :) slack 8.1 supports 'em all (jfs,xfs,reiserfs,ext3fs)

    i'm going for the jfs...

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  6. A few pointers... by NoMercy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Please do not download the ISO's from the primary slackware site, it only has a 6Mb/s bandwidth and all it takes is a few people with cable modems or DSL to totally flood it, then there is no bandwidth left for the mirrors to use and thus the rest of us have to wait longer, only check the primary site for checksums and file sizes so you can later check if your local mirror has got the full ISO transfered.

  7. ISO is missing some packages. by wackysootroom · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the readme in the 8.1-iso directory.

    Note that for space reasons, the KDEI (KDE i18n) series could not be
    included on this ISO, and I apologize for the inconvenience. If you need
    KDE translations, you can pick them up here:

    ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8. 1/slackware/kdei/

    Other things that aren't on this disc that you might need to pick up
    "a la carte" include the boot floppy images and rootdisks (if you can boot
    this CD-ROM, you won't need these), ZipSlack, and the source code. All
    of these extras are available from our FTP site:

    ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8. 1/

    Or, pick up the official 4 CD-ROM Slackware disc set here:

    http://store.slackware.com

    Enjoy!

    Patrick Volkerding
    volkerdi@slackware.com

  8. Re:how many floppies by Gleef · · Score: 2, Informative

    stikves writes:
    slackware no longer supports "any" floppy installation.
    It used to support full floppy installation before (I guess) 7.0. After that you could only install bas and network series with floppies.

    I haven't tried this, but the Slackware Installation Help seems to disagree with you.

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  9. Re:Help with Slack by seosamh · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, you could write to the info mail account at
    slackware.com and ask. The change log for the
    current (which became 8.1) often cited individuals
    who reported specific issues during beta test and
    release candidate testing.

    Besides that, according to the FAQ:

    The most obvious way you can help with Slackware is to use it! The
    more people that use it, the more people that can find and report
    bugs. This will make Slackware even more stable than it is
    now. Another obvious way is to purchase a CD set. This helps to
    support everyone working on Slackware, and allows us to work on new
    versions. You can also email us and tell us what programs need to be
    added.

    You can also jump on the forum and answer other users'
    questions. Finally, you can help get the word out on Slackware. Help
    advocate the distribution - especially to the potential users who are
    still looking for their distribution.

  10. Re:reinstall? by SealBeater · · Score: 3, Informative

    FYI, you can upgrade to ext3 without reformatting.

    SealBeater

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  11. Re:how many floppies by (startx) · · Score: 2, Informative

    that page, and several other pages, are out of date. I've emailed pat a couple of times about it, but I guess he was to busy getting 8.1 out the door.

  12. WAKE UP MODERATORS! by swagr · · Score: 3, Informative

    The parent post is currently rated "-1 Overated".

    Let me explain why the parent post is both humorous and insightfull.
    This post is a reply to the statement Cheers to the slackware developers. (note the s )
    Most Slackware users know that the Slackware distro is very much a one man show: "Patrick Volkerding".
    see this and you'll note that the rest of the team works on ports, the website, etc. but not the distro.

    The above poster saw an opportuinity to correct the first poster, AND do it in a humorous way. It's funny because it catches us off guard (we know there is only one developer but out of habit we just say "developers" because most distro's aren't a one man show). Furthermore, the author of this post was in no way rude or disrespectful to any poster, Patrick Volkerding or Slashdot.

    Anyway, I'm expecting my "offtopic" moderation any moment now.
    Standing up for poster's rights and active opponent of bad moderation since 2002.

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  13. Re:Yeah, but what about by (startx) · · Score: 4, Informative

    rpm2tgz, then you can cd / ; tar -zxvf packagename.tgz. or if you want to install it rpm wise, use the force and nodeps options of rpm.

  14. Hooray! by Mister+Snee · · Score: 4, Informative

    And to think I just went and downloaded the entire slackware-current source tree to try out RC1 only three days ago. -_-

    Seriously though, Slack 8.1 looks great. There are a few little tweaks that really make a difference (for instance, I thought I saw ESD behaving at one point) and some of the stuff packaged with it is just cool (am I the only one who noticed the full-colour Lynx? :D).

    My only complaint is one I can't verify with the actual CD release of Slack 8.1, but at least with RC1 it was very very hard to do a clean "upgrade" of my current system. In fact I eventually had to back up all my important configuration files and delete the entire filesystem except for the directory where I'd made a copy of the -current tree and the utilities I needed to "installpkg". Nothing short of that would make it work cleanly. This isn't really a big deal for desktop systems but it makes me very nervous about upgrading my servers, most of which are running Slack 8.0 or 7.1.

    Still, a great release that was well worth the wait.

  15. Re:All Linux distributions need Kazaa-like install by Hard_Code · · Score: 3, Informative

    BitTorrent

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  16. Slackware 8.1.01 ... by leiz · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's been some last minute updates to slackware. From the changelog:

    Wed Jun 19 07:02:39 PDT 2002
    Slackware 8.1.01-stable is released.
    a/sysvinit-2.84-i386-19.tgz: Added -M to fix quotacheck for reiserfs.
    d/cvs-1.11.2-i386-2.tgz: Added docs in text format.
    n/apache-1.3.26-i386-1.tgz: Upgraded to apache-1.3.26.
    This fixes the issue described in:
    "CERT Advisory CA-2002-17 Apache Web Server Chunk Handling Vulnerability"
    While the impact of this issue is minimal on 32 bit Linux systems, we felt it
    was important enough to stop the presses and get these fixes in before sending
    the Slackware 8.1 discs in for replication.
    (* Security fix *)
    n/mod_ssl-2.8.9_1.3.26-i386-1.tgz: Upgraded to mod_ssl-2.8.9_1.3.26.
    rootdisks/rescue.dsk: Added network/pcmcia scripts.

    Tue Jun 18 10:47:47 PDT 2002
    Slackware 8.1-stable is released! :-)