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Slackware 7 Beta Out

Posted by Roblimo on from the forward-ho! dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Check the current tree changelog and you'll notice that Slackware 7.0.0-pre1 beta is out. Seems it won't be too long before the next major release; now completely based on glibc2."

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  1. Straight from the horse's mouth: by patrikr · · Score: 5

    Here's what Patrick Volkerding said about it in the slackware.com forum:

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    I've stayed out of this for now, but I do think I should
    lend a little justification to the version number thing.

    First off, I think I forgot to count some time ago. If I'd
    started on 6.0 and made every release a major version (I
    think that's how Linux releases are made these days,
    right? ;), we would be on Slackware 47 by now. (it would
    actually be in the 20s somewhere if we'd gone 1, 2, 3...)

    I think it's clear that some other distributions inflated
    their version numbers for marketing purposes, and I've had
    to field (way too many times) the question "why isn't
    yours 6.x" or worse "when will you upgrade to Linux 6.0"
    which really drives home the effectiveness of this simple
    trick. With the move to glibc and nearly everyone else
    using 6.x now, it made sense to go to at least 6.0, just
    to make it clear to people who don't know anything about
    Linux that Slackware's libraries, compilers, and other
    stuff are not 3 major versions behind. I thought they'd
    all be using 7.0 by now, but no matter. We're at least
    "one better", right? :)

    Sorry if I haven't been enough of a purist about this. I
    promise I won't inflate the version number again (unless
    everyone else does again ;)

    Pat
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    All Glory To The Hypnotoad!
  2. ah, slackware.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    Slack was a great distribution to learn on, I remember the fun I had upgrading 3.4 to glibc (and consequently reinstalling 3.4, and upgrading again. The 2nd time i managed to not fuck it up).. but I've learned, I've prospered, and nowdays i simply don't have the time to do all of that stuff by hand. apt-get dist-upgrade has made me incredibly lazy, as well as incredibly efficient. I remember not being able to do a ton of things when I had 3.6, that really pissed me off (things like running mozilla, compiling xmms, and compiling a kernel (?!) on my laptop). Ah well, those days are long gone, I'm quite happy w/ debian. I still think every new linux user should be *required* to run slackware for at least a year, though, so they actually LEARN something.
    -dilinger (who's been up for over 24 hours now)