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Old 08-31-2009, 11:24 AM   #1
niels.horn
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Post Overview of Slackware versions and ChangeLogs (with search function)


For those interested in some Slackware history, I just updated my list of all versions ever released, specifying the release date, version of kernel, X, gcc, kde, etc.

I included all ChangeLog files I found (or 'reconstructed' by extracting from newer versions) and included a "search" function so that you can track updates of a certain package between releases, search for a contributor, etc.
This search function tries to group the text in blocks, so that the words found are shown in the right context.
This works fine in the newer ChangeLogs that follow a strict format, but less well in the older files.

The list can be found here.

All information was compiled from the original ChangeLog files, so I *think* it is quite accurate. However, if someone has solid reasons to believe that any detail is incorrect, please tell me so (stating your sources )

Hope this will be of any use
 
Old 08-31-2009, 11:37 AM   #2
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Cool

Thanks for the list, niels.horn! I enjoyed reading that a lot.
 
Old 08-31-2009, 12:02 PM   #3
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Thanks. It makes a good read!

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Old 08-31-2009, 12:08 PM   #4
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Hey, that's really neat!
 
Old 08-31-2009, 12:15 PM   #5
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Yes, the 'Chronicles of Slackware!'

Niels.Horn is the official keeper of such Chronicles! Nice work!
 
Old 08-31-2009, 12:18 PM   #6
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Yes, the 'Chronicles of Slackware!'

Niels.Horn is the official keeper of such Chronicles! Nice work!
"Chronicles of Slackware" is a good one!

Thanks for all the nice remarks!
 
Old 08-31-2009, 12:49 PM   #7
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x/xfree86-4.3.0-i386-2.tgz: Removed /etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap. This doesn't
seem to be needed anymore, and in 4.3.0 it breaks leaving X with Ctrl-Alt-BS.
Sun Mar 16 22:23:38 PST 2003
Had me worried for a moment.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
 
Old 08-31-2009, 01:27 PM   #8
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Very interesting.
 
  


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