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#1
Senior Member
Registered: May 2006
Distribution: CTOS, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Minix, OpenBSD, Slackware
Posts: 1,199
Thanked: 34
Slackware64 -current made public!
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Posted 2009-05-19
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Ready or not, Slackware has now gone 64-bit with an official x86_64 port being maintained in-sync with the regular x86 -current branch.
http://www.slackware.com/
#2
Member
Registered: Dec 2008
Location: New York
Distribution: Slack -current, 13-64multi, Lenny
Posts: 85
Thanked: 5
History is made......Slackware just keeps getting more and more relevant!
#3
Member
Registered: Dec 2006
Distribution: Slackware 12.2
Posts: 481
Thanked: 5
Wow... awesome.
#4
Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Prince Rupert, B.C., Canada
Distribution: Slackware 13.0, Slackware-current
Posts: 2,387
Thanked: 60
Wicked-cool! Thank you, Mr. Volkerding, Eric, Robby, and the entire Slackware team!
#5
Slackware Contributor
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama (USA)
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 1,463
Thanked: 150
Eric is the man for this one.
#6
Slackware Contributor
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama (USA)
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 1,463
Thanked: 150
Eric is the man for this one. :-)
#7
Member
Registered: Apr 2009
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 238
Thanked: 21
Yes, yes, yes. Thanks for sharing. Love you all guys!
#8
Member
Registered: Apr 2008
Location: China, Beijing
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 307
Thanked: 18
Which mirror has 64-current in place? I just can't to wait to rsync but I will not pull from ftp.slackware.com directly
#9
Member
Registered: Apr 2008
Location: China, Beijing
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 307
Thanked: 18
One more question, is there any packages in 32bit-current but not in 64bit-current?
#10
LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2009
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 1
Thanked: 0
when will this port be available for download?
#11
Member
Registered: Apr 2009
Distribution: Slackware64
Posts: 54
Thanked: 13
Give the mirrors a couple of days to pull it in.
#12
Member
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Sarasota, FL
Distribution: Slackware64® Current
Posts: 765
Thanked: 22
Schweeeeeeeeeeeeettt!!!
#14
Member
Registered: Jul 2005
Location: Iowa
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 124
Thanked: 3
They were pretty secret about it. I hadn't heard that it was being worked on.
#15
Member
Registered: Feb 2007
Distribution: Slackware64+"True Multilib"
Posts: 704
Thanked: 23
Absolutely Outstanding!
Thank you very much!
BTW, is it multi-lib or "pure 64"?
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