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Slackware 9.1 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hitting-the-streets dept.

ThatComputerGuy writes "Slackware 9.1 is now officially released. This is another great release, featuring GCC 3.2.3, GNOME 2.4.0, KDE 3.1.4, ALSA, and Kernel 2.4.22. Check the official announcement for the full feature list. Note that ftp.slackware.com will not allow ISO downloads starting with this release; instead, the first distribution of the ISOs will be via BitTorrent."

6 of 241 comments (clear)

  1. Bittorrent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Who downloads P2P downloads terrorism!"

  2. Scott Lockwood = sucks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    William Scott Lockwood III = the suck.

  3. Subscription poll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hello folks,

    You may know me from my website: goatse.cx.
    Yeah that's good ol' me right there on the front page. I checked my server
    logs last week and observed a lot of traffic to and from /. I think I am a
    popular and much liked person around here. Thank you!

    Okay now to the main reason I posted this comment. It may be slightly OT,
    but I don't know what else to do. The /. editors rejected my submission to
    Ask Slashdot. Ofcourse, I could've suggested a poll option, but I doubt
    that would've made it past them either. So here is what I would like to
    ask, in a nutshell.

    I have been thinking of starting a subscription based service to my
    website. You know the rising cost of living nowadays, not to mention my
    ever increasing bandwidth bills (I'm getting famous!). I have also been
    asked to add flash/animated versions of my popular pictures. I intend to
    read up on some Web page development stuff, or if the cashflow works out,
    even hire a programmer -- my small contribution to the US and world
    economy!

    But to achieve all this, I would need to gather some statistics. How many
    of you would be interested in subscribing to my website for, say,
    $10/month? It's a rough figure, but the details can be worked out later.
    For now, I need to know the general response from you guys -- to see if
    the idea is feasible. It would help if the votes are lined up neatly in
    this thread. Thanks!

    And lastly, any ideas/suggestions/feedback about my website is welcome!

    Thanks again people, looking forward to hearing from you, and keep
    visiting!

    GX

    1. Re:Subscription poll by rarkm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Sounds swell! Send me US$4827.99 so I can dedicate a laptop and a T1 line to your new site! I'll also need US$712 per month for the line and US$38.00 per day for corn chips, brownies and diet soda. Also CDN$55.50 for a case of Molson's Ale per week.

      I'll even hostname it after you!

      --
      [Insert pretentious and semi-clever sig here: ______ ]
  4. Nice image gallery! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So far, I think their Alpha Slackware is their best pixmap. So far, my DEC Alpha has the following distributions on a 4.5GB harddrive (despite the 18GB harddrive RAID with a mounted /home and /usr/local directory):
    Debian 3.0r0
    RedHat 7.1
    SuSE 7.1
    Slackware 9
    LinuxFromScratch
    netBSD
    GNU/HURD

    Slackware is nice, a complexity rivaled only by LinuxFromScratch.

  5. Archlinux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i just wan u guys to try archlinux....
    it's nice