Just ordered the DVD and black Tshirt, XL size, is it American XL size? I am getting fatter, hope it will fit.

A nice addition. Thanks.

Just out of curiosity.. When can I exspect to find my order in my mailbox?

Best birthday present I got this year ;P

Yeahhhh! Thanks for another great release guys!

I installed the x86_64 version yesterday. And it's absolutely a great release. I was afraid I would have difficulties with my integrated intel gpu (intel core i3-540 clarkdale), but i haven't found any. Video is playing smooth ( even better then the previous release, were in some movies video and sound were out of sync, and i had to correct that manually in the players config ). glxgears is slow, probably because 3d hw acceleration isn't turned on (have to investigate that).

And no problems with the atlantis screensaver, as a few mentioned in the forum. (probably because 3d hw accelaration is off)

Thanks slack team. I don't buy the dvd because of shipment and all, but I'll donate the money instead.

On thing the slack team blew though. Due to the cool version number I'll probably skip next release

After installing it on virtualbox several times, during the install I keep seeing the following flash very quickly, too quick to see:
something about libraries being empty and not being fixed.
I wish I could capture it...

I'm very pleased with it. Seeded to past 1.0 ratio, just in time, too -- AT&T is starting bandwidth caps today ;-) Very happy, too, that there are configs for other kernels than just the release version. I compiled the 2.6.35.13 kernel using the config that came with it. Runs a little cooler on my laptop than the 2.6.37.6 one for whatever reason.

Thanks to everyone involved. I donated to the project on Friday.

Just got out of hospital and came home to find 13.37 out and ready. (The things we do to kill time waiting for a new slack!).

Verrry nice indeed. Faster than 13.1

Nouveau is a piece of filth, but that's not Slackware's fault.


Another happy Slacker here.

Currently ... yeah. I would have waited before considering it usable or stable ... even tho they've had plenty of time.

Please allow me to politely disagree with both of you.

1) Nouveau works very well here and fortunately I am not alone.
2) Yes, your mileage may vary with Nouveau depending of your GPU model...
3) But people for whom Nouveau doesn't work keep the possibility of not using it: 'upgradepkg /mirror/extra/xf86-video-nouveau-blacklist/xf86-video-nouveau-blacklist-noarch-1.txz' is all that it takes.
Furthermore, users who can't/don't want to use Nouveau still have the choice between 'vesa' 'nv' or the proprietary driver (not included in Slackware but easy enough to install on it).

And please consider that people wanting to use a decent open source driver for their nVidia GPU are left with only one choice: Nouveau, as nVidia discontinued development of 'nv' long ago.

So let me thank Pat for the wise decision he took of providing Nouveau while making easy for the user to switch to another driver.

And to fairly appreciate upstream developers' pace, please bear in mind that they work almost blindly, as nVidia didn't release any specification. So IMHO given the conditions and the complexity of a GPU behavior they make a tremendous job.

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I'm going to have to disagree.

Whilst waiting for 13.37 I dabbled briefly with Fuduntu and Fusion (both Fedora14 based releases). Both used Nouveau and both allowed me to get to a working screen. I was quite impressed with the functionality provided by the driver and was looking forward to its inclusion in 13.37.

However, it doesn't work for me in 13.37 - I get a screen full of fractured blue lines with only the cursor appearing as expected. Perhaps it's another one of these monstrosities that periodically occur in Open Source, where it might work this build but the next build might break it again.This is acceptable for development level stuff, but not for a final release. So, for me - the argument that "it works for some of us so shut up and deal with it" is unacceptable. If the driver is known not to work with some NVIDIA cards then it should not be the default driver. NV should be the default with either an option to try the (very much still experimental) Nouveau driver or some instructions, post install, on how to enable it.
Yes, it's easy to remove it. I just removed the offending package (having ended up tied in knots trying "how to blacklist the nouveau driver on distro xxx" instructions) and installed the binary blob - this is not the point.

Well, I guess that those of us for whom Nouveau doesn't work well will agree with you, whilst the other ones will agree with me

If not done already, reporting about the issue you encounter to the Nouveau mailing list would certainly help developers to iron out the driver, you'll find relevant information here: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/

Don't get me wrong, I would really like an open source driver for my nvidia card, but nouveau is not ready, no matter what you say, or if you agree. Even nv was more stable.

I remember someone mentioned that using the testing kernel may help with nouveau issues, so you can try that.

Noveau works nicely for me as well. This was the needed solution for me as Nvidia did not have any drivers that would fit my graphics card from some years back.