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Old 03-27-2005, 04:15 AM   #1
mikeymorgan
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Question Differences between 9.1 and 10

Hi, im thinkin about wipin my current slackware system which is on slackware 9.1, to slackware 10.1. What kind of advantages does 10.1 offer?
 
Old 03-27-2005, 04:38 AM   #2
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Old bugs out, new bugs in...

just newer versions of all the packages, XFree86 being replaced by Xorg, kernel updated to 2.4.29, etc...
 
Old 03-27-2005, 04:47 AM   #3
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oh. i guess slack 11 will have the 2.6 kernel
 
Old 03-27-2005, 11:53 AM   #4
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Well the major change is the fact that slack 10.1 uses gcc 3.4
 
Old 03-28-2005, 04:42 AM   #5
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10.1 uses GCC 3.3.4 by default. GCC 3.4 is still in /testing.
 
  


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