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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..."
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"If you actually cared to read the release note"(that's slashdot for you), you would realize that it is a released with two kernels compiled with different configurations. This was the same during the previous kernel change and was probably the same before that. Slackware 10 comes with 2.4.26 default with 2.6.7 selectable during install I believe.
>>In the end, I might save some time if I archive the config files and just reinstall everything.
you'll save a lot of time doing that.
don't forget to visit
http://www.linuxpackages.net/
for your precompiled slack addons.
good luck...i'm off to download.
You mean something like Swaret? http://www.swaret.org/
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slackware-10.0-iso/
- slackware-10.0-install-d1.iso
- slackware-10.0-install-d1.iso.asc
- slackware-10.0-install-d1.iso.md5
- slackware-10.0-iso/ (subdir with same name as parent dir!)
- slackware-10.0-install-d2.iso
- slackware-10.0-install-d2.iso.asc
- slackware-10.0-install-d2.iso.md5
- slackware-10.0-source-d3.iso
- slackware-10.0-source-d3.iso.asc
- slackware-10.0-source-d3.iso.md5
- slackware-10.0-source-d4.iso
- slackware-10.0-source-d4.iso.asc
- slackware-10.0-source-d4.iso.md5
Not the prettiest layout for the disks, IMO.Nevertheless, I'll leave it running for the next few days (got to use my 1mb upload for something, right :-)
This may be an artifact of linux, as I've noticed it before with a few pieces of code I wrote where a directory already existed, and it created another with the same name under it ...
Considering that Pat has been doing two releases each year for several years now, your post doesn't make much sense. Slackware 9.1 only came out like - 9 months ago. There was only 6 months between 9 and 9.1.
If memory serves (may be a bit rusty on the dates)
X11R6.2 - XFree86 3.2 (c 1996)
X11R6.3 - XFree86 3.3 (late 96-early 97)
The xc changed the license for R6.4 so XFree86 stayed based on 6.3 for a while, until they backpedal sometime in 1998-1999.
X11R6.4 - XFree86 4.0
dunno about 6.5
6.6 was merged into XFree86 4.2 or 4.3 if memory serves.
X11R6.7 IS X.Org 6.7 as X.O is the xc's reference X distribution now.
You're doing it wrong.
RedHat was the very first distro I ever used, which was several years ago. Eventually, I tried out several other distros once I was comfortable with RedHat and once I came to Slackware, I hated it more than life. It was so hard to configure and was much different than RedHat.
Eventually, I did get it working and I am so happy that I did. Slackware has been my favorite distribution of Linux ever since, and I continue to use it today on all my linux pc's. Gentoo was ok, but something about Slackware keeps me coming back. I'm currently on my P4 3.2ghz Laptop running Slackware 9.1, while my server upstairs which hosts all my projects and work is running Slackware 9. At my parents' house (I live with my gf in an apartment at college), my mp3 server still runs to this day running some oooold version of Slackware from 1998. It still is just as stable and just as good. It's a 486, so it has no reason to upgrade anything. The system runs stable and fine for all the hardware and all the tasks it needs.
Eventually, I'd like to have my desktop upstairs running linux. It's hard to part with MS Flight Simulator though and I need Macromedia Flash for development.
Either way, this is my thank you to Patrick for giving me a beautiful and stable distro.
The greatest experience we can have is the mysterious.
- Albert Einstein
I'm running it right now with a 9700 pro. No problems. Runs beautifully.
It's 1988 and the X Consortium is the maintainer of the X protocol and it's reference implementation. The reference implementation goes through 6 major releases. Release 6 goes through (i think) 3 minor revisions with the X Consortium. X11R6.3.0
X consortium dissolves, and maintainance passes to the Open Group.
The Open Group establishes X.org an independent group to maintain the standard, after TOG make a serious licencing blunder with X11R6.4.0 which pisses off XFree86. XF86 basically threatens to perform a complete fork rather than a parrallel implementation if the licence changes, TOG backs out and X.org gets formed.
X.org makes a few releases - keep in mind that they maintain a reference implementation, whereas XFree86 seems to be focused on drivers and features, based on the X.org code. This starts with (again, I think) R6.5.1.
Fast forward, David Dawes of XF86 pisses off everybody whose an important developer in his project (notably Keith Packard), and then threatens to change the licence. X.org has been thinking of making their position in their relationship with XF86 more dominant anyway and the whole thing culminates in a full fledged fork of XF86 prior to the licence change. This code is worked on, some random bug fixes are included, and many of the GPL incompatible licence cahnges are released by the original developers under the X.org licence, bada boom bada bing, X11R6.7.0.
If by "out of the box" you mean you don't mind using (building) ndiswrapper, then yes, it works out of the box. ;)
That's what linuxpackages.net is for. It's an independent location for slack packages.
Does Slackware have an apt/"windows update"-style auto-update tool yet?
Check out slapt-get. It can be found on freshmeat at http://freshmeat.net/projects/slaptget/. I used it to keep my Slack 9.1 install up to date and was pleased with its performance.
I've using a 9600XT with X.Org 6.7.0 and the ATI binary driver 3.7.6 (3.9.0 was making mplayer crash or at least refuse to do usual operations). I'd say it works well. If only ATI could beef up there Alternative OS drivers it could be alot better.
--tarballedtux
The problem with Debian, is that they wait for to damn long to add updated packages to their distro... Slack incorporates packages at a much faster rate...
Not only that, but Debians main advantage, apt-get, now has a Slackware equivalent.. swaret
GO SLACK!
If anyone is interested in taking this project, I would love to help. I don't have the webspace, but I'm willing to do the porting, and get Slack 10 into PPC form. If you're interested email me: jlongs2@SLACKuic.edu minus distro.
I mod down pyramid schemes in sigs.
yes they do, you can check out slapt-get and also swarret. Im a fan of slapt-get, you chan check it out here. Easily put into cron if you want it to be updated daily/weekly/montly whichever you prefer with something like
slapt-get --update
slapt-get --upgrade --no-prompt
Check also the possibility of somechangedscript.new for upgraded ways of doing things.
Slackware-current. Using NVidia GForce4 MX440 (NV17) with Nvidias last linux driver (build five thousand and something) Xorg works exactly as XF86. /etc/X11/XF84config-4. Soft-link to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and youre done.
Only quiks came from applications that dont find
From the announcement:
"Each Slackware package follows the setup and installation instructions from its author(s) as closely as possible, offering you the most stable and easily expandable setup."
forget iso's just download the disk sets you want, boot via floppy, setup your nic with the network disk. and use a nfs install. though you do need another box for this...