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Thanks alienBOB for your work on this and making it possible.
And thanks to the rest of the slackware team for your hard work.
Now i'm only waiting for my favorite mirror to sync
This is pretty sweet. I'm checking out alternatives for my currently broken Arch installation and 64-bit Slack would be quite nice option if it has 32-libs too.
Still have to wait for the Xorg updates to get newer intel driver though, the 2.4 driver just won't work properly.
And I'm not too keen to update whole Xorg by myself to get newer driver.
That's great news, many many thanks to everyone who made it possible! Slackware would be falling behind a bit if this happened later, I'm very glad that Slackware will also be the king of the next-generation systems .
I also want to thank the developers of the unofficial 64-bit ports (such as Slamd64 that I use) for their great effort. They saved the lives of the impatient ones and I'm sure their experiences helped make the official switch much smoother.
Wow! Awesome news!
I'm on Slamd64 at the moment... but I'll definitely be switching now an *official* Slackware 64 is here!
I'm guessing if you need 32 bit libraries (for Google Earth, wine, etc...) it will work fine just installing the 'l' series from Slackware 32?
This is the answer I received from Alan_Hicks on irc channel slackware@oftc
Quote:
<@alienBOB> We use lib64 for the 64bit
<@Alan_Hicks> Yeah but /usr/lib is pretty much empty.
<@alienBOB> So, 32bit libraries can be installed in lib
<@alienBOB> But we do not _ship_ 32bit compat packages
<@alienBOB> Slackware64 is prepared for it though
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