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For 15.1 would it be feasible, and not too complicated to have the installer give you the choice to install LILO or GRUB , or ELILO or GRUB (in UEFI mode) ?
For 15.1 would it be feasible, and not too complicated to have the installer give you the choice to install LILO or GRUB , or ELILO or GRUB (in UEFI mode) ?
Code:
Wed Jan 12 22:04:33 UTC 2022
Good hello, and welcome to the third and final release candidate for Slackware
15.0. We're 99% frozen at this point and are mostly looking for regression or
other bug reports that might be able to be addressed before this goes stable.
Of course, the management here reserves the right to make exceptions... that
5.15.15 kernel version has a nice ring to it. If your requests didn't make it
into this iteration, perhaps we will revisit them for the next -current cycle.
Some were just a little too late but will more than likely be needed next time
(I'm looking at Didier's grubconfig), while others are just out of scope for
the main tree where I like to abide by YAGNI as much as possible.
Anyway, let's get some testing done and we'll be there soon. Enjoy! :-)
Wed Jan 12 22:04:33 UTC 2022
Good hello, and welcome to the third and final release candidate for Slackware
15.0. We're 99% frozen at this point and are mostly looking for regression or
other bug reports that might be able to be addressed before this goes stable.
Of course, the management here reserves the right to make exceptions... that
5.15.15 kernel version has a nice ring to it. If your requests didn't make it
into this iteration, perhaps we will revisit them for the next -current cycle.
Some were just a little too late but will more than likely be needed next time
(I'm looking at Didier's grubconfig), while others are just out of scope for
the main tree where I like to abide by YAGNI as much as possible.
Anyway, let's get some testing done and we'll be there soon. Enjoy! :-)
Ok, so that answers that. Next question, is it feasible to have the installer detect an encrypted LVM? Say I formatted a drive in Devuan (using the GUI cause I am a lazy shit), and now I would like to install Slackware over that; would be nice if the installer would detect and prompt for a password to format/install - but methinks that might be too complicated, oh well. I thought it wouldn't hurt to at least ask....
My only other gripe about the installer which I hope this time will be modified in 15.1 - the prompting. Menu and Expert; they are exactly the same - maybe if not removing one or the other, how about at least changing the output? Have expert out as terse rather than the identical output of Full ?
Update syslog to a modern syslog: rsyslogd. It needs libestr and libfastjson. I've been using it for years. Very fexible, it's made for large infrastructure but scales down nicely.
Code:
rsyslogd 8.2112.0 (aka 2021.12) compiled with:
PLATFORM: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
PLATFORM (lsb_release -d):
FEATURE_REGEXP: Yes
GSSAPI Kerberos 5 support: No
FEATURE_DEBUG (debug build, slow code): No
32bit Atomic operations supported: Yes
64bit Atomic operations supported: Yes
memory allocator: system default
Runtime Instrumentation (slow code): No
uuid support: Yes
systemd support: No
Config file: /etc/rsyslog.conf
PID file: /var/run/rsyslogd.pid
Number of Bits in RainerScript integers: 64
See https://www.rsyslog.com for more information.
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