Let me guess Slackware 15.0 with 4.19.25 kernel soon (tomorrow?)

igadoter · 02-23-2019, 04:33 AM

I wanted to put this as announcement but was worry mod may take this seriously. I had look at C data types in kernels description and conclusion seemed to me evident.

Lysander666 · 02-23-2019, 04:53 AM

Can you post it?

teoberi · 02-23-2019, 05:05 AM

Slackware 15 will have kernel 5.x!

montagdude · 02-23-2019, 06:12 AM

hitest · 02-23-2019, 10:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by igadoter

I wanted to put this as announcement but was worry mod may take this seriously.

We haven't had a release candidate yet. If Pat follows his usual pattern we will have beta releases and or some release candidates prior to the release of 15.0.

cwizardone · 02-23-2019, 11:35 AM

As of this coming Friday, 1 March 2019, it will 2 years and 8 months since the last "stable" release.

igadoter · 02-23-2019, 12:05 PM

I have a look at history of longterm kernels. Supposedly 4.19 is last longterm before longterm series in 5 major line, which I'm guessing will be 5.3 - no sooner than the end of the next year. From other hand lifetime of 4.19 ends exactly in 2020. I just did simple data interpolation. I see this as 15.0 this year with 4.19.xx or 15.0 at the end of next 2020 - or even beginning 2021. I don't know maybe such time horizon is quite possible. There are just many difficult decisions to be made - eg. to add Plasma 5. Seems many wait for this.

About C data types here explanation: int, short int, long int - comparing with lifetimes of longterm kernels there are short lifetimes, long lifetimes - and something in the middle.

Sorry for this speculative thread. I just went early morning to www.kernel.org - today I upgraded kernel to 4.19.24 but there is already published 4.19.25 - so if schedule will continue there will be new kernel bug fix almost every week. I think this just mirrors intensive development in mainline. So my main conclusion was that if this is the case - then there is no need to wait any longer with release of 15.0.

hitest · 02-23-2019, 12:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by igadoter

So my main conclusion was that if this is the case - then there is no need to wait any longer with release of 15.0.

Patrick has a proven track record with his stable releases; I trust his judgement. At some point he will announce a release candidate and we will know that we're closer to 15.0. I am happy to wait.

hitest · 02-23-2019, 04:30 PM

Some updates issued today from Pat. Slackware64-current is first rate!

Code:

Sat Feb 23 20:41:38 UTC 2019
a/kernel-firmware-20190221_54b0a74-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-4.19.25-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.19.25-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.19.25-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
a/tar-1.32-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/gcc-8.3.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/gcc-brig-8.3.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/gcc-g++-8.3.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/gcc-gfortran-8.3.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/gcc-gnat-8.3.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/gcc-go-8.3.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/gcc-objc-8.3.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-4.19.25-x86-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/libtool-2.4.6-x86_64-10.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Recompiled to update embedded GCC version number.
d/parallel-20190222-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-4.19.25-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
n/NetworkManager-1.14.6-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
x/pyxdg-0.26-x86_64-1.txz:  Added.
isolinux/initrd.img:  Rebuilt.
kernels/*:  Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img:  Rebuilt.
+--------------------------+

Code:

bash-5.0$ uname -rpm
4.19.25 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz

Drakeo · 02-24-2019, 10:07 AM

yup sure thing lol