The previous Slackware releases
Inspired by the reappearing threads* such as Next Slackware Release? (>13.37) I ask when we’ll see the previous Slackware releases: 13.3[0–6], 13.2, 6.0, 5.0, 3.[7–8], and 1.1.1. It seems there’s lacking here** at least thirteen*** Slackware releases. Who owns them? Where they are? What they do?
_____________ * reappearing threads are boring. ** “here” is the shortened name of the real world. *** you can believe in unlucky numbers – I’m not superstitious. |
Those version numbers have been reserved for internal, private usage by Slackware recipients. ;)
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Who owns them? Notice the copyrights for 3.3 & 13.37 evolution; Quote:
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What they do? Slackware - Wikipedia :hattip: |
saulgoode,
thank you for the answer. Could you define the term “Slackware recipients”? onebuck, you quoted the excerpts from the COPYRIGHT.TXT files provided with the official releases of Slackware 3.3 and Slackware 13.37. I asked about Slackware releases that are the complement of the official set of releases. |
Ahh young grasshopper, your question reveals a mind still trapped in the rational number field. You must learn that the mind of the great creator works in the infinitely larger transcendental number field where versions such as 13.37 Release candidate pi also occur.
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Ahh, yes the lost Slackware releases!
Some believe that they were so full of awesomeness that the creator concluded that the world simply wasn't ready for them and just like Arthurian legend, they will return to us when our need is greatest. Others believe that he just skipped some numbers for the fun of it (A rose by any other name and all that), However this later belief is somewhat implausible and those who hold it are inevitably mocked to within an inch of their lives for even mumbling it. What do I believe? ...that this forum always gets weird when current goes quiet. |
Some people say that the lost Slackware releases do exist buried deep down the Cave of Kyre Banorg; some people say that they were only released in Matrix; yet some other people say that those releases never existed in the first place. Whole books were devoted to this topic. Marcel Proust's "In search of Lost Slack" and Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Bob" are just some of the examples. We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain is that at some point those releases will resurface and humankind will be be happy again.
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PV: Is that you Bob? Hal: No Pat, Hal PV: I thought you were lost Hal: Versions please PV: Ok, I bet you are Bob reincarnate. Uploading.... _...... Hal: 01010000 01110010 01100001 01101001 01110011 01100101 00100000 01000010 01101111 01100010 PV: Praise Bob :jawa: |
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If you are speaking of the 'stable versions' for each release then look at RELEASE_NOTES, UPGRADE.TXT & CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT(this text file was added starting at ver 11.0). At 11.0 onward to 13.37 read the text files to discern the content differences between the text files to provide a detailed map of changes. Versions for historic Slackware 1.0 to 3.9 you will need to do some digging. For Slackware version RC(release candidate) just do a search for the Slackware version # along with RC; Quote:
HTH! __________________ Regards and God speed, Gary The Magic is in the Magician not the wand! © Slackware®-Links | Slackware® Unofficial Announcement Repository | Slackware® Home Slackware® Essentials | Slackware® Basics | How to Ask Questions the Smart Way Linux Counter # 249288 Get counted! |
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>>> data = '01010000 01110010 01100001 01101001 01110011 01100101 00100000 01000010 01101111 01100010' |
hmmm. I always had the feeling that HAL would have spoken EBCDIC
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Hi gals and guys,
thank you for your jokes. Not all of them are equally amusing but I’m grateful for your attempts to say or write something funny in reply to my question. Hi sycamorex, I like your answer the most – at least so far. Thank you for the deep cultural background as well as for the optimistic vision of the future of the humankind. I like “Waiting for Bob” and the other Beckett’s works. Maybe I should try now “In search of Lost Slack”? Hi onebuck, you tried twice to be serious – in posts #3 and #9. Unfortunately you missed twice the topic of that thread that isn’t serious at all. I respect your knowledge and your eloquence but the present thread isn’t the place for such kind of the knowledge and the eloquence. Fortunately in the post #8 you managed to be amusing so thank you for that post. Hi Anonymous, you found my post #4 unhelpful. I don’t know certainly who you are though I have some presumption. If you still think my posts are unhelpful feel free to find the present post unhelpful too. |
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