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Slackware 9.1RC 2 Out, Mandrake 9.2 Soon
Colin writes "The founder of Slackware, Patrick Volkerding, released version 9.1 RC-2 of the upcoming Slackware. Good ol' Slack comes with new versions of packages while the addition of the Swaret tool adds dependency checking on Slackware for the first time! Here is an enthusiastic preview of Slackware 9.1 with plenty of screenshots." And pacc points out that Mandrake 9.2 will soon be ready, but only for Mandrake Club members at first. "But it will soon come to a mirror near you(TM). Though by choosing to distribute it with BitTorrent, do they effectively limit the downloads for a limited release?"
Alsa is a separate entity from Slack - if Alsa had issues with the sound card it wasn't Slack's fault. Also, the driver on the cheaper onboard sound rigs emulates full-duplex in software, right? At least sometimes? Setting up full duplex in software can probably be done but with quite a bit of work. The issues never exist on a card with onboard full-duplex support but one must still learn and use Alsa. The Slack/Alsa combo worked fine for basic sound support.
As to the Slack install, it is what is is - easy and quick. Just like FreeBSD's - there's no reason to change it, it's fine.
The heat from below can burn your eyes out
You can get it and a lot more Slackware extra packages
here:.
If you really want it in the base distribution, just ask Patrick. He is usually prompt and if you make a good case for a package, he will add it. It also helps if you can give some built tips for particularly onery packages.
swaret --update
swaret --upgrade
Lots of options, you can even specify default 'yes' for all upgrades. Resolves dependencies too.
Just posting this link again to try to get through to new users. Time for M$ whores to take the plunge!
A MANDRAKE HOWTO
The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to LINUX Mandrake 9.1
http://mandrakeuser.cjb.net
New web site up on how to set up mandrake 9.1 to ease the configuration pains of the new linux user. Written and catered for the moderate computer user. It covers how to get and install mandrake and add in most of the needed applications. Covers most of the major software included in the distribution, other freely available applications, newbie command line tutorial, how to handle some common and annoying bugs peculiar to each application.
PART I
1. Introduction
2. Indispensable Tools for the Linux User
3. Useful links
PART II - Mandrake Installation
1. Getting Mandrake 9.1
2. Installing Mandrake 9.1
3. Going through the install sequence
4. Using Mandrake
5. Nice things to add easily
6. Configuration with Mandrake Control Center
7. Configuration with Gnome Control Center
8. Important Configuration of Menus and MIME Types
9. More Advanced Configuration
PART III - Linux Shell and Apps
1. Navigating around terminal
2. Shells -- bash, csh, rsh, sh
3. Environments and Paths
4. File Permissions
5. Editing files
6. Linking
7. Finding Files
8. Using grep
9. Basic bash scripts knowledge
10. Running Remote X applications
11. Mounting Remote File Systems
12. Language setup for man pages
13. Handling Print Jobs
PART IV - Software Packages
1. What are packages?
2. Specifying Sources For Online Downloading - Mandrake Mirrors, Texstar, PLF
3. Packages to be installed from Mandrake CDs - Mesa, mplayer, Timidity, pan, gaim, mozplugger
4. Packages to install from Texstar - Macromedia Flash, nano, Real Player
5. Mplayer and Codecs
6. Other essential packages- Open Office, Sun Java, Adobe Acrobat 5, BitTorrent
7. Setting up SMB share for Windows
8. Using vncserver for remote desktop applications
9. File Sharing - p2p networks - Limewire, edonkey, lmule
10. Running M$ Office under Linux.
11. Games - SNES, MAME, WineX
PART V - Advanced FAQ
1. How do I get DRI 3D acceleration to work?
2. Mandrake Fonts Deuglification and Anti-aliasing
3. Email Clients and Web Browsers (Handling mailto: and http:)
4. Full Mozilla Plugins Configuration (Quicktime, Java, Flash, Mplayer)
5. Konquerer Plugins Configuration
6. X Windows xmatrix screensaver
7. How to adjust the sound volume permanently
This HOWTO is my first contribution to the linux user community, and since I have found documentation sorely lacking for the total newbie, I have decided to write one myself. It is based on my experience in the past month trying to install everything from scratch. This HOWTO will be short, brief and to the point. Further information can be found in documentations on other websites, this one is just for the impatient, and users who want to reduce their startup time. Why Mandrake? Firstly, it is easy-to-install, and the first distribution that I've tried that has come very close to the ease-of-use of windows. If you can install and customize windows, you will not have much trouble with the Linux installation. Who is this HOWTO written for? This document is meant for the average user who is at least accustomed to tweaking and customizing their own OS. It will definitely not be a tutorial on how to point and click or use GUI interfaces.
This HOWTO is my first contribution community, and since I found newbie documentation wanting, I wrote one myself. It is for
Swaret's dependency checking is actually pretty neat. For some dependencies, it is able to get a list of package relations from an external site maintained by the swaret project. For other dependencies, does something like an ldd on the binaries in a package to determine which libraries are missing. Sometimes, it can then deduce which packages need to be installed from this information. If not, at least you have some clue as to what is missing.
As for building software on Slack, usually 'configure' catches any missing dependencies before compiling begins. One nice thing about Slackware is there are no '-dev' packages. Just install the compiler, and all of the necessary include files are already there from the other packages.
I'm buying Mandrake 9.2 I use Redhat, Debian, and OpenBSD mainly but I tried Mandrake 9.1 on my laptop and replaced Redhat w/ it. urpmi surprised me (almost as good as apt) and the overall speed is noticeably better than Redhat. Combine this w/ the excellent packages from texstar and plf and I'm very happy.
This guy is way out there
Did you have a look at Mandrake's website?
September 24th, 2003 - Mandrake 9.2 Beta1 for AMD64 - The first beta of Mandrake 9.2 for AMD64 (Athlon64 and Opteron) is now available. Release informations and places to download are available here.
Hello fellow Slackware users and newcomers, just a few comments to help clarify a few things.
Slackware 9.1 comes in two CDs and it's Installation is text-based.
I would personally describe this as a menu based installation. ie: use arrow keys to select packages/options.
The only snag might be that the user will need to use the command line and not extremely user-friendly fdisk application to create partitions for Slackware.
cfdisk is also available which is menu based.
Ok, since you brought it up:
e nt (or http://gma.sourceforge.net/swaret/libraries-curren t). In the same directory are files from the 9.0 and 8.1 releases. These files are checked nightly against Slackware's ftp site.
The dependency checking does not work by including additional information in the tgz package's metadata. Instead, swaret checks each executable program installed with ldd (which is part of the * package). If the executable depends on a library not on the system, swaret downloads a small text file that lists each package in Slackware that contains a library, and also gives what the library name is. The example below is a small snipper from the libraries-current, which is from http://mhlug.linuxorbit.com/swaret/libraries-curr
qt-3.1.2-i486-4.tgz: usr/lib/qt-3.1.2/lib/libqui.so.1.0.0
qt-3.1.2-i486-4.tgz: usr/lib/qt-3.1.2/lib/libqt-mt.so.3.1.2
procps-3.1.8-i386-1.tgz: lib/libproc.so.3.1.8
procps-2.0.13-i486-1.tgz: lib/libproc.so.2.0.13
popt-1.7-i386-1.tgz: usr/lib/libpopt.so.0.0.0
This methode does not guarantee that there will be no errors. An example where it will not detect a dependency is when a package depends on another because of a command, not a linked library.
Slack rocks!
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