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History of Slackware

Here's a little overview of the Slackware evolution since 1.01 which was released 1993:

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Version  KERNEL    (G)LIBC WHATS-NEW

1.01    .99 Alpha 4.4.1  gcc 2.4.5  XF86 1.3

1.1.2    .99.15    4.5.19  gcc 2.5.8  XF86 2.0

2.0.1    1.1.18    4.5.26  gcc 2.5.8  XF86 2.1.1

2.1      1.1.59    4.5.26  gcc 2.5.8  XF86 3.1

2.2      1.2.1    4.6.27  gcc 2.6.3  XF86 3.1.1

2.3      1.2.8    4.6.27  gcc 2.6.3  XF86 3.1.1

3.0      1.2.13    5.0.9  gcc 2.7.0  XF86 3.1.2

3.1      2.0.0    5.3.12  gcc 2.7.2  XF86 3.1.2

3.3      2.0.30    5.4.33  gcc 2.7.2.2 XF86 3.3

3.4      2.0.30    5.4.33  gcc 2.7.2.3 XF86 3.3.1

3.5      2.0.34    5.4.44  egcs 1.0.3  XF86 3.3.2p2                        Netscape 4.05

3.6      2.0.35    5.4.46  egcs 1.0.3  XF86 3.3.2p3                        Netscape 4.07

3.9      2.0.37pre10 5.4.46 egcs 1.1.2 XF86 3.3.3.1 <= 4.0 with 2.0 kernel

4.0      2.2.6    5.4.46  egcs 1.1.2  XF86 3.3.3.1KDE 1.1.1                Netscape 4.51

7.0      2.2.13    2.1.2  gcc 2.95    XF86 3.3.5  KDE 1.1.2                Netscape 4.7

7.1      2.2.16    2.1.3  gcc 2.95.2  XF86 3.3.6  KDE 1.1.2                Netscape 4.73

8.0      2.2.19    2.2.3  gcc 2.95.3  XF86 4.1.0  KDE 2.1.1                Netscape 4.77

8.1      2.4.18    2.2.5  gcc 2.95.3  XF86 4.2.0  KDE 3.0.1  XFCE 3.8.16  Mozilla 1.0

9.0      2.4.20    2.3.1  gcc 3.2.2  XF86 4.3.0  KDE 3.1.0  XFCE 3.8.18  Mozilla 1.3

9.1      2.4.22    2.3.2  gcc 3.2.3  XF86 4.3.0  KDE 3.1.4  XFCE 3.99.4  Mozilla 1.4

10.0    2.4.26    2.3.2  gcc 3.3.4  Xorg 6.7.0  KDE 3.2.3  XFCE 4.0.5    Mozilla 1.7

10.1    2.4.29    2.3.4  gcc 3.3.4  Xorg 6.8.1  KDE 3.3.2  XFCE 4.2.0    Mozilla 1.7.5

10.2    2.4.31    2.3.5  gcc 3.3.6  Xorg 6.8.2  KDE 3.4.2  XFCE 4.2.2    FF 1.0.6

11.0    2.4.33    2.3.6  gcc 3.4.6  Xorg 6.9.0  KDE 3.5.4  XFCE 4.2.3.2  FF 1.5.0.7

12.0    2.6.21    2.5    gcc 4.1.2  Xorg 1.3.0  KDE 3.5.7  XFCE 4.4.1    FF 2.0.0.4

12.1    2.6.24    2.7    gcc 4.2.3  Xorg 1.4.0  KDE 3.5.9  XFCE 4.4.2    FF 2.0.0.14

12.2    2.6.27.7  2.7    gcc 4.2.4  Xorg 1.4.2  KDE 3.5.10 XFCE 4.4.3    FF 3.0.4

13.0    2.6.29.6  2.9    gcc 4.3.3  Xorg 1.6.3  KDE 4.2.4  XFCE 4.6.1    FF 3.5.2

13.1    2.6.33.4  2.11.1  gcc 4.4.4  Xorg 1.7.7  KDE 4.4.3  XFCE 4.6.1    FF 3.6.3

13.37    2.6.37.6  2.13    gcc 4.5.2  Xorg 1.9.5  KDE 4.5.5  XFCE 4.6.2    FF 4.0

Notes: GNOME was discontinued as of version 10.2, since version 12.0 there is xorg server version and FF stands for Firefox

As you can see, Slack has been EXTREMELY stable on software side. I believe that machine capable of running 8.1 can still handle 13.37. Latest KDE with bells and whistles is a total different story however.

PS I posted this information initially as an answer to another thread, but I think it is good for everybody to see it prominently.

Try have a look at Slackware Mirrors to find Slackware older than 8.1

Hi,

Get Slack History You gotta read this!

Thanks for the links, managed to update the table now with full Slack history.

Quote:

Originally Posted by onebuck (Post 4770553)

Hi,

Get Slack History You gotta read this!

Thanks this is an excellent post and I agree with everything said here from my personal experience using Slackware.

Its romantic,

but Slackware is my best friend, and my lover.

Both when Im surfing for pornography.

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Originally Posted by clifford227 (Post 4771011)

Its romantic,

but Slackware is my best friend, and my lover.

Both when Im surfing for pornography.

Haha......dude....way too much information. :)

Prediction of Slackware version vs Firefox version

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S 13.37  FF 4.0

S 14.0    FF 15.0

S 14.1    FF 37.0

I think it will be a 3 digit version of firefox in Slackware 14.x/15.0

One thing missing - Release dates

Wow, 1.0.2 to 1.0.3 was only 10 days!

I installed a 3.something, would have been late 1995 or early 1996. Had a 386 running it.

Xorg went from 6.9.0 in 11.0 to 1.3.0 in 12.0?

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Originally Posted by fgcl2k (Post 4779102)

Xorg went from 6.9.0 in 11.0 to 1.3.0 in 12.0?

The change was in software development: from XFree86 to X.Org. That caused the weird change in version numbers.

Eric

The jump was such a "huge" because Slack sticks to stable stuff. X.org 1.0.0 wasn't stable enough so Pat sticked to XFree86 for a while and jumped ship until 1.3.0 Same kind of jumps you can also see in kernel versions. For example Pat kept away from 2.6 kernel for quite some time before jumping the ship in 12.0 with 2.6.21. Other example with kernel: 8.0 -> 2.2.19 and 8.1 -> 2.4.18. Only time Pat chose latest and greatest in kernel was 3.1 which shipped with 2.0.0

GCC:
8.1 -> 2.95.3
9.0 -> 3.2.2

Clearly shows the philosophy and thats why we love Slack. There are bleeding edge distros all over the place who are in some sort of a version umber race that we slack users really don't understand nor appreciate.

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Originally Posted by wigry (Post 4780008)

The jump was such a "huge" because Slack sticks to stable stuff. X.org 1.0.0 wasn't stable enough so Pat sticked to XFree86 for a while and jumped ship until 1.3.0

Therefore the table should be corrected: Slackware versions from 10.0 to 11.0 still had XF86 and not Xorg.
Thanks for your great work; +1 from me.
If you are interested in historical Slackware versions, I have posted some links here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...6/#post4772076

Er no those funny numbers are actually from the Xorg single source tree been split into multiple sources, if we had the numbers from the old Xorg style we would have something like :-

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11.0    2.4.33    2.3.6  gcc 3.4.6  Xorg 6.9.0  KDE 3.5.4  XFCE 4.2.3.2  FF 1.5.0.7

12.0    2.6.21    2.5    gcc 4.1.2  Xorg 7.2.1  KDE 3.5.7  XFCE 4.4.1    FF 2.0.0.4

12.1    2.6.24    2.7    gcc 4.2.3  Xorg 7.3.1  KDE 3.5.9  XFCE 4.4.2    FF 2.0.0.14

12.2    2.6.27.7  2.7    gcc 4.2.4  Xorg 7.3.2  KDE 3.5.10 XFCE 4.4.3    FF 3.0.4

13.0    2.6.29.6  2.9    gcc 4.3.3  Xorg 7.4.1  KDE 4.2.4  XFCE 4.6.1    FF 3.5.2

13.1    2.6.33.4  2.11.1  gcc 4.4.4  Xorg 7.5.1  KDE 4.4.3  XFCE 4.6.1    FF 3.6.3

13.37    2.6.37.6  2.13    gcc 4.5.2  Xorg 7.6.1  KDE 4.5.5  XFCE 4.6.2    FF 4.0

Excerpt from X.org history:

X11R6.7.0, the first version of the X.Org Server, was forked from XFree86 4.4 RC2.

So we really have x.org. Actually it is possible to extract the version number for the xorg release from the Announce files. WildWizard already brought the updated table segment. For some reason I cannot edit the original post anymore...

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Originally Posted by wigry (Post 4780225)

For some reason I cannot edit the original post anymore...

There reason is that regular users of LQ can't edit posts more than 4 days old. If need be, hit the "Report" button on your first post and ask a moderator to do it for you.