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Slackware 10-RC1 Released

Posted by timothy on from the john-henry-of-distros dept.

Chaxid writes "According to the latest Slackware ChangeLog, release candidate one of the next iteration of Slack is upon us. I asked Patrick Volkerding via e-mail if the 2.6 series of the Linux kernel would be included in this version, and this was his response: 'To have support for using the 2.6 kernel in the installer might not be a good idea quite yet, and it would delay the release a lot. I'm planning to wait on that for the next one'. It's worth noting the Slackware 10 RC1 is fully 2.6 compliant however." As TouchOfRed writes, though, "A test kernel 2.6.6 option is offered via the 'testing' tree. Slackware does not offer ISOs for the RCs (however there are some third party users that compile the RCs or the -Current tree regularly as ISOs), so if you are already running Slackware 9.1, you can use the excellent Swaret to upgrade to the latest packages (make sure you edit your /etc/swaret.conf prior of using swaret to allow for kernel upgrades and other options)." This release includes kernel 2.4.26 , Gnome 2.6.1+, KDE 3.2.3, GCC 3.4, XOrg 6.7 and more.

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  1. Re:Slack by Monkelectric · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, WTF is up with gentoo? Has anyone else noticed the new packages have slowed to a trickle in the last few weeks? GCC 3.4 has been out for 12 days and theres no ebuild for it.

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    Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley

  2. Re:Slack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why does portage want to merge XFree, and 10 tons of shit just to emerge gnupg?

    This is a text-only server box, I don't want nor need 100000000 terabytes of cruft and horseshit, I don't need XFree or any other graphical interfaces. I just need gpg.

    Tell me what ANY of this has to do with a simple console app like gpg?

    [ebuild N ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.5-r1
    [ebuild N ] x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r1
    [ebuild N ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.2
    [ebuild N ] app-arch/cabextract-0.6
    [ebuild N ] x11-base/opengl-update-1.5
    [ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r5
    [ebuild N ] media-gfx/xloadimage-4.1-r1

    What a piece of fucking garbage.

    All this to make perl happy, so I can use webmin to administer ldap accounts.

    Never had this type of problem with slackware, I should switch back to downloading tarballs and building everything by hand. There is no easier way.

  3. Re:Slack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    emerge -av gnupg
    You probably have your USE flag set so that some extra options are turned on.