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Why not a Black Friday special?? I would love to wake up Black Friday mourning to find a new Slackware 'rc' instead of seeing all the leftovers from the family meal. With my beer fridge raided by all the relatives that stay over. The American dream, man and his beer fridge loaded with all the favorite brews for the holidays ahead.
I would love to find a 'Bob's Brew' from a craftier to celebrate the new release from PV & team. Hopefully soon!
Cool. My Matrox video card never worked in 14.1 because of some bug in the Linux kernel or a module and I don't want to rebuild it. Looking forward to this release.
OpenBSD: November 1
FreeBSD: November 14
Slackware: December-January?
Debian: Early 2015
Much to upgrade. Slackware and FreeBSD are the only ones that are easy to install. OpenBSD's fdisk+disklabel gives you post-traumatic stress and Debian's installer is so infuriatingly braindead that I usually dist-upgrade instead. The Slackware installer is always a pleasure. Never any problems, just slack -- the essence and soul of Slackware.
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btw, I dont think we are there yet.
if you look in the ChangeLog you clearly see that apart from security and bug fixes, only glibc and kernel are really new.
so the time before PV looks over KDE, X, etc will still take time.
Kernel updates are pretty standard in current. I cannot wait for a new KDE. 4.10.5 is running VERY slowly on current. Eric's 4.14.3 is running beautifully though. ;-)
I think Pat wants to get through more of mancha's list before we get to an RC.
P.S. Who would not pay to see Pat's TODO notebook?
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Originally Posted by ryanpcmcquen
Kernel updates are pretty standard in current. I cannot wait for a new KDE. 4.10.5 is running VERY slowly on current. Eric's 4.14.3 is running beautifully though. ;-) .....
Agreed.
IMHO, KDE 4.14.3 is a MAJOR improvement over 4.10.5. Actually, any KDE since 4.13 is a major improvement over 4.10.5. It was the improvements in 4.13.1 that finally convinced me to switch back to KDE after moving to Xfce as a result of the KDE 4.0 disaster.
Last edited by cwizardone; 11-22-2014 at 11:32 AM.
if you look in the ChangeLog you clearly see that apart from security and bug fixes, only glibc and kernel are really new.
so the time before PV looks over KDE, X, etc will still take time.
There have already been major X updates in current.
Agreed.
IMHO, KDE 4.14.3 is a MAJOR improvement over 4.10.5. Actually, any KDE since 4.13 is a major improvement over 4.10.5. It was the improvements in 4.13.1 that finally convinced me to switch back to KDE after moving to Xfce as a result of the KDE 4.0 disaster.
Switching back to a KDE branch which is basically obsolete now?
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Switching back to a KDE branch which is basically obsolete now?
Obsolete?
Are you talking about QT5/KDE5?
After the KDE 4.0 disaster I won't be trying KDE5 until it is well tested, proven to be sable and has all the necessary, imo, "features" and applications working as they should.
Last edited by cwizardone; 11-22-2014 at 02:54 PM.
It has a vintage package manager, vintage init system, vintage authentication system, vintage mailing system.
Basically nothing changed in the past decade and more. It is far from being a mainstream Linux distro.
And the community around Slackware likes it like this.
It is perfectly suitable for basic setups like home or small business use.
I'd effectively add PAM. Package manager and init system are just fine, and Sendmail can very easily be replaced by Postfix.
I know that there are some Slackware business installations, mostly servers
and there is even Microlinux, I find it great that it exists and relay wish that this project will have a huge success.
You do know that I am not only the manager of Microlinux, but also chief admin & developer, researcher and developer, tech support, marketing expert, salesman, trainer, secretary and cook? My everyday life feels very much like that joke I posted yesterday. Or to say it in George W. Bush's terms: "Don't misunderestimate me."
Agreed.
IMHO, KDE 4.14.3 is a MAJOR improvement over 4.10.5. Actually, any KDE since 4.13 is a major improvement over 4.10.5. It was the improvements in 4.13.1 that finally convinced me to switch back to KDE after moving to Xfce as a result of the KDE 4.0 disaster.
Can you give some examples? This is not a rhetorical question to challenge you, but a real question, out of curiosity. I'm using 4.10.5 for my everyday work, and I must say I already like it very much. What's new in 4.14.3?
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