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?"

Comments

Re:Linux Mandrake 9.1 HOWTO and Documentation Guid

[phoxix]

All I can say is "Bless you!"

And I'm not even religious

Sunny Dubey

Re:BSD is your better choice

[Anonymous Coward]

Um, the dependency checking tool is called 'ldd'. Slack has had it for a long time.

Want automatic dependency checking? Run the program, and if it is missing something, it will tell you what it is.

Maybe automatic dependency solving is what slackware is missing. But slack has a file that comes with it called MANIFEST.bz2. I just 'bzcat MANIFEST.bz2 | less' and type / and the shared library name. Find the associated package name and installpkg. Works every time. Well, maybe not for third party tgz's, but it's the same for third party rpms too-- you make your own trouble by doing this. Now the way to avoid problems with programs not included in slack is to compile it yourself.

All swaret does is combine all those steps into one tool. Same old stuff, different approach.

Now what does BSD have over this?

Re:DAMN YOU MANDRAKE!!!!

[kfg]

Sucks to be addicted to small, shiney objects, don't it? :)

KFG