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Interesting that this kernel release would get some PR and be in the news.
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Linux Kernel 4.4.7 LTS Out Now with Multiple x86 Changes, Many Updated Drivers
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Linux 4.4 kernel users must update as soon as possible
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...."Here's what's new in Linux kernel 4.4.7 LTS"
Looking at the appended shortlog, we can't help but notice that pretty much the same changes introduced by Linux kernel 4.5.1 are also present in Linux kernel 4.4.7 LTS, such as multiple improvements to the x86 hardware architectures, as well as to the Xtensa, s390, IA64, ARC, ARM, and SH (SuperH) ones, and fixes to the FUSE, NFS, JBD2, OCFS2, and XFS filesystems.
Moreover, there are the usual drivers updates, this time for things like USB, SCSI, watchdog, thermal, TTY, PINCTRL, MMC, MD, MTD, networking (mostly wireless), InfiniBand, GPU (mostly AMDGPU and Radeon), crypto, CLK, Bluetooth, ACPI, EDAC, and HID. Some perf, mm, crypto, and core kernel changes are also present, along with enhancements to the sound drivers.....
Interesting that this kernel release would get some PR and be in the news.
Well, it's not something unique, see 4.4.3, 4.3.6, 4.2.4 and 4.1.16
And the "All users of the x.y kernel series must upgrade" is something Greg K-H seems to stick onto every announcement of a maintenance release. So I wouldn't call this major news, though I would be in favor of upgrading..
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Well, it's not something unique....
And the "All users of the x.y kernel series must upgrade" is something Greg K-H seems to stick onto every announcement of a maintenance release. So I wouldn't call this major news, though I would be in favor of upgrading..
Thanks for the information. I wasn't aware the "warning" has become a frequent practice.
The "must upgrade" policy is one reason I stick with Slackware instead of the bleeding edge distros. I am running the 4.4.6 kernel now and was not even in dire need of it when I recompiled and upgraded. If all hardware and drivers work up to spec then why risk breaking something that is working perfectly fine unless a new "must have" version of a daily used package requires it. Then there is always the possibility that it can just be set to run just as efficiently on your current kernel or with a patch to your current kernel. Just my opinion.
Thanks,
Skippy
Last edited by skippy1337; 04-15-2016 at 03:23 PM.
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Back to the original topic: I know it has been discussed many times but I would still love to see a tiling wm shipped stock. I would love to have DWM considered (I know that it is available at Slackbuilds as well as being easily compiled from source for full functionality)as it has no REQUIRED dependencies even though it's hard to imagine running it without dmenu (also at slackbuilds). There are also others with no 3rd party dependencies i.e. ratpoison. I have also heard through the grapevine that libreoffice may/may not be included in 14.2.
Again I have no solid grounds to prove that, but I do know that Alien Bob included it in his latest Slack-Live release which is supposed to mirror as closely as possible the stock release. It may have been no more that an added bonus by Alien but does show the possibility. I could be completely wrong though.
Again I have no solid grounds to prove that, but I do know that Alien Bob included it in his latest Slack-Live release which is supposed to mirror as closely as possible the stock release. It may have been no more that an added bonus by Alien but does show the possibility. I could be completely wrong though.
Well... Slackware has Calligra. I never used it and i never will since i really prefer the official binary package from LO. Including such a package to a release candidate of a stable distribution sounds a bit like a wish. Especially if such a package can be installed by using some simple commands. And i'm pretty sure not everyone want to have it installed.
BTW: joe got updated to 4.2, release notes (please scroll down to 4.2...).
Last edited by DarkVision; 04-15-2016 at 03:53 PM.
This is very true, and it's not exactly a small addition as far as size goes. Compared to the size of Calligra and all of it's included utilities it's tiny though, and not to mention (for those of us who do not run KDE or require extensive QT libraries) a little more pruning on the install could save quite a few Gigs if needed. I think I recall a time when Openoffice was included in official or maybe in extras but I may be wrong. That may be the best alternative, to include in the extras directory so if it's wanted it's there and if not it's not included in the full install.
Again I have no solid grounds to prove that, but I do know that Alien Bob included it in his latest Slack-Live release which is supposed to mirror as closely as possible the stock release. It may have been no more that an added bonus by Alien but does show the possibility. I could be completely wrong though.
Indeed you are telling a half-truth.
LibreOffice is not going to be added to Slackware.
My Slackware Live Edition comes in several variants. One of them, called SLACKWARE, is indeed "supposed to mirror as closely as possible the stock release". That means, it only contains software from official Slackware packages. There's another variant, called PLASMA5, which contains all of Slackware minus KDE4, but with PLASMA5 added plus several of my own major packages (LibreOffice, VLC, Chromium, FFMPEG, etc).
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