Here's what Patrick Volkerding said about it in the slackware.com forum:
----------------------------------------------- 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;)
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It was removed in AmigaOS 2, and replaced with "Software Error" or something equally boring. (I don't remember exactly what it was, haven't used my A500Plus in a while now...)
Your timezone is Eastern European Time then. (Same as Finland.) I don't know if that's possible to select in the prefs though... I had a quick look but didn't see it.
One very notable defect here is the remaining lack of support for the PC internal speaker, if only for completeness. Then again, Windows 95/98 doesn't do it either so who am I to judge?
Oh yeah? Then how come I'm playing an mp3 on my PC-Speaker right now via/dev/pcsp?:)
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> Now, if only Slackware had some sort of package manager..
/sbin/*pkg*
/sbin/explodepkg
/sbin/installpkg
/sbin/makepkg
/sbin/pkgtool
/sbin/pkgtool.tty
/sbin/removepkg
/sbin/upgradepkg
% ls -1
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Here's what Patrick Volkerding said about it in the slackware.com forum:
;), we would be on Slackware 47 by now. (it would
:)
;)
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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?
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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They've been running these ads in LJ for quite a while... Can't say I like the way they use "free" like a dirty word though. :P
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nope, it's 'cypherpunks'
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I hate animated ads. Period. If the ads were static images, they could stay in my browser, but as it is, they're gone...
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It's not new, you just revealed that you're a slashdot-newbie... :) Click on it and check out the archives.
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...to just click "Save As Text" in VB3, and VB5/6 vill load and convert the forms/modules just fine.
:)
We just moved at pretty large app from 3 to 6 at work, so I know for a fact that it's possible
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If you try to force your way of doing things down my throat, I'll use something else, thankyouverymuch.
Single/double-clicking _definitely_ needs to be user-selectable.
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23:20 eastern, that would be 5:20 central european, 6:20 Finnish time. I guess they didn't think of europeans when planning this... :-)
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Linux has had Joliet-support for quite a while now, so the long file names will not be ignored.
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Check out www.slackware.com for more information on Slackware 3.9/4.0.
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EET DST (or EEST as new Linux installations seems to call it) is GMT+3, so it's 6:18 GMT.
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I think you should mention ZipSlack... Installs as UMSDOS, so no reformatting or anything required, and Linux lives in (for example) C:\LINUX.
:-P )
See www.slackware.com. (Although it seems to be down at the moment.
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It was removed in AmigaOS 2, and replaced with "Software Error" or something equally boring.
(I don't remember exactly what it was, haven't used my A500Plus in a while now...)
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Yup, only one program at a time can lock /dev/dsp. (Unless you run ESD and esddsp that is...)
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Why did this get a -1 score?
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Your timezone is Eastern European Time then. (Same as Finland.) I don't know if that's possible to select in the prefs though... I had a quick look but didn't see it.
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Wrong, but thanks for playing.
It's "the Enlightened Sound Daemon", and it has NOTHING to do with Rasterman och Enlightenment.
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Whatever happened to the Palm IV? :-)
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Oh yeah? Then how come I'm playing an mp3 on my PC-Speaker right now via /dev/pcsp? :)
More info
I was told that support is also available for Windows, but I don't know more about that...
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Check out the Overlay Filesystem.
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