The Ultimate "When Will The Next Slackware Release Arrive" MegaThread
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that's in the ramdisk image on the cd... IIRC, it's been patched a few times already... it's /isolinux/initrd.img and it shows it was last modified on Aug 20: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...rrent/isolinux
Thinking of this, would it be needed to make my own disks for Slackware 11 once it is released, or would the instructions in the readme file in the directory at the link above do it? I am partly thinking that just downloading the ISO files would be easier, but it could take some time for someone to create them once Slackware 11 is released.
Thinking of this, would it be needed to make my own disks for Slackware 11 once it is released, or would the instructions in the readme file in the directory at the link above do it? I am partly thinking that just downloading the ISO files would be easier, but it could take some time for someone to create them once Slackware 11 is released.
Dan
the (official) slackware 11.0 iso image file will be created and released by patrick as soon as 11.0 is ready... you will be able to download it right away using bittorrent... the .torrent files will most likely be posted here: http://www.slackware.com/torrents/
It was five days between the two RC's. Perhaps we'll have 11 by Friday?
who knows... maybe... the important thing is that 11.0 will be released when it's ready (and hopefully not a second before that)...
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Do those of us for whom bittorrent isn't an option have to wait, or will the usual mirrors have images soon after they're released?
it's likely that only a handful of mirrors will have the ISOs like really soon... so during the first couple days after release you might have a hell of a time finding one that a) has it and b) isn't overloaded...
Do those of us for whom bittorrent isn't an option have to wait, or will the usual mirrors have images soon after they're released?
You could always "rsync" the -current tree and make your own iso once 11.0 has been announced. The instructions are right there in the isolinux directory...
It was five days between the two RC's. Perhaps we'll have 11 by Friday?
Do those of us for whom bittorrent isn't an option have to wait, or will the usual mirrors have images soon after they're released?
I was quite lucky with 10.2 and was able to download it from the Slackware mirrors the same day it was released back in September. But, like win32sux stated we'll need to wait to see if the mirrors have 11. I hope they do.
It seems 11 really is close...er. I don't have a laptop (or wireless card), but did notice that since the 2.6 kernel upgrade for the new release the linux-wlan-ng package has only been recreated for the 2.4 kernel. Is this going to be a problem for 2.6 users? Yeah, I know. It's only an "extra" package...
You could always "rsync" the -current tree and make your own iso once 11.0 has been announced. The instructions are right there in the isolinux directory...
Quick question: there didn't seem to be any directions in the isolinux directory. Could someone tell me where to find them or if I'm missing something here?
Thanks.
edit: Just found it. I guess my mirror doesn't have all the files the official one does.
Last edited by aquaboogie90; 08-21-2006 at 07:18 PM.
Quick question: there didn't seem to be any directions in the isolinux directory. Could you tell me where to find them or if I'm missing something here?
Thanks.
Mon Aug 21 14:54:08 CDT 2006
a/udev-097-i486-5.tgz: Fixed check in rc.udev for 2.6.15+ kernel.
Thanks to Richard Fuller for the fix.
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I am glad to see that it seems to be getting more stable, only one change today - yay!
Just to clarify; I haven't got the web space to make a kdebase package publicly available. I'll make some HAL & DBUS packages which will work with Slackware 11 and post up a webpage about how to get them working with KDE. Also, the later versions of HAL require PAM, so it'll have to be an older version from a few months back.
Tho admittedly, I am still reading how to secure Pam, which is much more involved; and I'm quite confused but I'm working on it.
Linuxpackages had HAL but they never worked for me on 10.2 stock, I guess mileage may vary. I started to try to make HAL but it got into UDEV and I got scared off as I'm so new still.
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