From TFA:
“It’s that time again, and here we have Slackware 12.0 release candidate 1!
If we’re lucky, we got it all right the first time. Big thanks to the crew.”
On my desktop computers I run few upgraded Slackware 11 and -current machines, so here’s what I see changed after some grep and awk […]
For those that don’t know pidgin is the new name for software previously known as GAIM.
From TFA:
“We have no developers using Slack, and furthermore, several of us actively dislike that distribution for its history of broken installs, as well as for its non-existent package management. You cannot create true packages for Slack.”
I’ve seen few comments […]
Slackware is so bleeding edge, you could put razor on it and call it Wilkinson!
LATEST and greatest X, Kernel etc. Hear hear:
1. SLACKWARE (EVEN) PATCHING KERNEL!
Sun May 6 15:48:18 CDT 2007
a/kernel-modules-smp-2.6.21.1_smp-i686-2.tgz: Patched SiS 900 driver that was causing system crashes. Thanks to Michael Wagner, Paolo Segre, Piter Punk, and Jens Odsvall for […]
Favourite excerpts from TFA:
“First off, I don’t even know what the GPLv3 will look like. I would be totally crazy to accept a license for my code sight unseen. I think people who just say “version 2 or any later version” on their code probably don’t care about the license of their code enough. Before […]
root@gajba:~# /usr/bin/rsync -avz rsync://rsync.slackware.at/slackware/slackware-current/ /mnt/mali2/mirror/slackware-current/
This is mirror.inode.at, your local friendly mirror in the neighbourhood.
Connection sponsored by inode. See http://www.inode.at/
Have a look at http://mirror.inode.at/ for further information and statistics on the server.
Please contact mirror@inode.at in case of problems.
*** Checksumming (-c) is disabled, so don’t use it ***
Gentoo-Users: You’ve hit rsync1.at.gentoo.org/81.223.20.162
receiving file list … done
./
ANNOUNCE.11_0
BOOTING.TXT
CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT
CHECKSUMS.md5
CHECKSUMS.md5.asc
COPYING
COPYRIGHT.TXT
CRYPTO_NOTICE.TXT
file has vanished: […]