Officially released or you just wandered into the Changelog and read what it says? Thanks.

Well, it says it is released and the packages are available, so I would asume that its officially released right?

If it's in the change log it's officially released.

Cool, thanks!

Now I wait for Official ISO Images.

Update:

Downloading a Slack9.0 ISO prerelease as I write this.

Thanks to the person who posted that mirrors link.

Can't wait to get Slack 9 installed. My first attempt to download Slack 9 met with failure (lousy ROUTER!!!) hopefully get it tonight.

I think I'm just going to buy it.

So,

I seem to have read on these forums that plenty of people keep simply 'upgrading' bits and pieces of their original install.

Do the official cd's make this easier, or are people downloading source files for specific things (for example, latest gcc), and then compiling/installing themselves?

See, I've only recently gotten 8.1 and my enligtenment environ. customized to where I like it, and having to go through all that again, while perhaps a learning process, just doesn't seem like much fun.

Is it necessary to wipe out 8.1 to install 9.0, or is there an 'upgrage' option?

As far as I can tell, enlightenment isn't even in the distro anymore, you can check under /gnome in the top level of any of the mirrors and the enlight-whatever.tgz and (this is what ticked me off) eterm-whatever.tgz seem to be gone...

Cheers,

Finegan

I don't see it, either, but you would know better than I.

By the way, very nice to get a reply for you--I would like to say "thank you" for all of your posts on wireless networking. Most of my searches on the topic got very relevant answers from posts you have replied to others on. They are very, very helpful. So thanks for being out there.

That out of the way, understand I'm still very new to linux/slack world. When I'm browsing the FTP, I see all of the filename.tgz packages. If I decided I wanted to update a particular package that wasn't enlightenment, is there a best method?

Something like:

1. Somehow figure out dependencies.
2. Uninstall the original .tgz
3. install the new .tgz

The reason I mentioned #1, is I've noticed that sometimes I've installed a .tgz that never "worked" (either wasn't really installed, or I couldn't find where it went..doh). Never was an error message generaged by the pkg installer.

Any tips? Or a place to rtfm?


Oops, nevermind. found it, I guess:


upgradepkg oldpackagename%newpackagename

http://freshmeat.net/projects/autoslack/?topic_id=861


Of course, this seems the lazy way out, if it works...

I would like to learn the 'proper,' old-fashioned way.

is slackware alwyas released on 1 cd or this is the d/l version but it doesn't contain everything ?

i am very new to slack )

Slackware 9.0 is available at Discount Linux CD's...
http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/l...tl/product/193

From the Slackware store site, if you order from them,

This 4-disc set includes:

Bootable installation disc
Bootable live disc, the Ultimate Linux rescue and demo disc!
ZipSlack, installation onto a Windows partition
Complete source code and handy Linux archives

The bootable installation disk is all I have ever needed.

thanx for the reply

The EggSalad Distro sounds tasty. LMAO

i used

ftp.kpn.be took about 45 min at 250+ .. very nice ...


my real question is im a ('') to slack and not sure how to get it to install from the .iso .. i used crdrecord -data to burn the iso which is how ive burned the few other distros im trying since starting to use linux .. and al have worked ok ...
i read somewhere on the site about having to make boot and root floppies, but wasnt sure about this being i havent had to do it be 4 ... any help would be appreciated ...