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Slackware 10.0 Officially Released
BRTB writes "Slackware 10.0 is out! X.org 6.7.0, kernel 2.4.26 (2.6.7 optional), KDE 3.2.3, GNOME 2.6.1, GCC 3.3.4... it's all new, and just as stable as you'd expect from Slackware, if RC2 was any indication. There's an official announcement, as well as some ISO BitTorrent links, and a mirror list. Of course, the non-cheapskates among us should go buy the CD-set to support the project. Have fun, everybody..."
This is where .NET comes in. There is no more DLL hell. There are 2 ways to fix this in Linux. One way is to not use dynamic libaries, and use inline. The binaries will be big, but that is not a problem anymore since hard drives are big and cheap. The second way to fix this is to do what .NET did, make assemblies (exe, dlls) strong named. They cantain a version like 1.1.3434.13243, a digital signature, and are stored in a global assembly cache. This means that foobar.dll v1.0 and foobar.dll v1.1 can exist on disk at the same location (to the requesting program). On disk they are actually stored as foobar.dll, but the program does not see that. This way DLL hell is fixed. .NET takes care of this problem. A similar service can be created for UNIX. I'm not talking about .NET, just about the service that gives the right version of the libary to the requesting program. Since almost every distro has a different file system hierarchy, and no distro capitulates to a standard, I don't think that this will ever happen.
Eh?
Surely, you meant to say "XFree86", and not just "X".
+5, even. Truly amazing.
Kid-proof tablet..
Bzzzzzzzt !, Like, what, you learned lunix "back in the good ol' dayz" with all us 1337 r00ts but now you're working for a big corporation and install redhat and suse ?! fuck off u lam3r.