15 Jun
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 fu.
Gazillion of package updates since Slackware 11. Most notable is kernel 2.6.21.5. (smp, non-smp; speakup), gcc-4.1.2, kde 3.5.7, amarok, k3b, Mozilla stuf (Firefox, Thunderbird)…
Many things that I had to install on my own are now in Slackware: mcabber, bluetooth stuff (bluez-* + openobex); nano, knemo, sdparm, openvpn, kvpnc, gpgme, gnutls, libgpg-error…
Since Slackware 11 there’s also lots of other important stuff (that i don’t use) such as Hal, dbus, gnupg2, modular xorg ~ 7.2-7.3 with xgl, compiz, new (open source) video drivers for intel, nvidia, ati, s3… fonts…
12 May
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 on slackware community irc channels about this: “clueless”, “lie”, “dishonest”…
I’ll add RETARDED to the list…
Kopete rulez anyway 
I saw that Dominian also wrote about this on his blog.
+++++ +++++ +++++ +++++ +++++
UPDATE:
Fellow Slacker wrote to the pidgin mail list: So long, and thanks for the insults.
Another Slacker wrote to the same list: about the rotten press you give Slackware….
The page on pidgin.im is modified. Original is here.
Even The Man himself has spoken about this. From the slackware-current changelog:
xap/pidgin-2.0.0-i486-2.tgz: Here’s a little excerpt from:
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhyPackagesExist
“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-existant package management. You cannot create true packages
for Slack.”
Well, I’m somewhat shocked by this, having never (to my knowledge) done
anything to any of the former GAIM or Pidgin developers to make them mad at
me, Slackware, or anyone on the Slackware team. I guess if they feel it’s
not possible to make a “true” Pidgin package for Slackware, there’s no point
in continuing to try. Having put out 7 security advisories on GAIM, I’m
quite sure there will be less work here if Pidgin is not included.
The Pidgin package has been moved to the “unsupported” directory. For the
record, I do not actively dislike Pidgin or any of their developers, but I
do plan to use Kopete from now on.
07 May
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 reporting the problem. Usually I’d say to report it to the kernel people, but it’s already in GIT and I’ll make an exception this time about patching the kernel here.
2. (AND) SLACKWARE AUTOMATICALLY RESOLVING DEPENDENCIES!
a/mkinitrd-1.1.1-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded mkinitrd to 1.1.1. Thanks to Piter Punk for the patch to resolve kernel module dependencies automatically.
(Incriminating) evidence of what Pat does these days on changelog!
FYI: This is written in a “funny” way on purpose :> but for lack of time and knowledge of proper english it’s not going to be as marvelous as it could. Black Adder rules! Wilkinson razors rule… Queen rules! They’re all British. Coincidence? I think not
28 Mar
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 I say that “yes, you can use my code under license X,” I’d better know *what* that license is.
Finally, the real basic issue is that I think the Free Software Foundation simply doesn’t have goals that I can personally sign up to. For example, the FSF considers proprietary software to be something evil and immoral.
Me, I just don’t care about proprietary software. It’s not “evil” or “immoral,” it just doesn’t matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Source, but it’s not a crusade — it’s just a superior way of working together and generating code.
I’m against “blind trust.” I will not sign on to a GPLv3 until I see what I’m signing up for.
And I think everybody is a lot more powerful than just “the people we think do the right thing.”
+++
EDIT: 31 mart 2007
Stallman, Torvalds, and Novell comment on GPLv3
19 Mar
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: “/slackware-current/CURRENT.WARNING” (in slackware)
ChangeLog.txt
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FILE HAS VANISHED. WTF?
10 Nov
http://blogs.securiteam.com/
It’s Y2K, no, it’s 32 bit unix time, no, it’s Slashdot!
Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/11/09/1534204.shtml
“it’s like y2k but worse”
I know what you mean. Y2K was supposed to put an end to civilization, but at least we’d have been able to post on slashdot.
“2^24 comments ought to be enough for anyone” — CmdrTaco
Some of you are asking which comment it was that got the cid 16,777,216. The answer is that none did. For redundancy, Slashdot is now running multiple-master replication which skips values for auto-increment. Our db-1 assigns odd-numbered primary key IDs, and db-2 assigns even-numbered. Right now writes are going to db-1 so newly created rows will have only odd IDs.
The comment that got 2**24-1 was this one, if anyone cares.Sorry about the inconvenience, everyone
So is the bug still in the CVS revision of Slash, or was it fixed 5 years ago and Slashdot never applied the patch?
Does this mean that Slashdot is going to denegrate into Digg now?
At least nobody can feed the trolls now!
Of course, in a decent database engine, like PostgreSQL, if you alter a column data type then the indexes are updated to reflect this.