glib-2.54.3
https://download.gnome.org/sources/g...-2.54.3.tar.xz

news --> https://download.gnome.org/sources/g...ib-2.54.3.news

gtk+2-2.24.32
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sourc...2.24.32.tar.xz

news --> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sourc...+-2.24.32.news

freetype-2.9
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fre...r.bz2/download

kmod-25:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils...d/kmod.git/log
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/uti...kmod-25.tar.xz

perl:

URI-1.73:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/URI/
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/...RI-1.73.tar.gz

libnet-3.11:

http://search.cpan.org/~shay/libnet-3.11/
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/...et-3.11.tar.gz

DBI-1.639:
http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.639/
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/...I-1.639.tar.gz

Is this thread for software suggestions only? I think the recent CPU nightmare is big enough to deserve its own README file in the next stable Slackware release.

mesa-17.3.2:

https://www.mesa3d.org/relnotes/17.3.2.html
ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/mesa-17.3.2.tar.xz

rsnapshot is like Slackware -- venerable, rock-solid, simple and it just works.

Would be nice to have it officially packaged for awesome release that 15.0 will be.

http://rsnapshot.org/
http://rsnapshot.org/downloads/

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sramov --

Thanks for the pointer to rsnapshot.

Did you know that there is already a version 1.4.2 rsnapshot.SlackBuild on SBo ?

I've gotta do more reading but it sounds like a very useful tool !

Having said that, I wonder if it would be generally useful enough to merge into Slackware, as opposed to keeping it as an SBo Package ?

-- kjh

I know, but I was hoping to get it officially included as it's such a good match for Slackware.

Generally I don't use SBo, I just custom compile small stuff that I require into my ~/bin.

I'm using extlinux instead of lilo (even simpler and no need to re-run it with each kernel/initrd update), would love to see syslinux updated (6.03 is latest version as of this writing, Slackware has 4.07).

Hi,

If I remember correctly, it's not the best option due to some bugs(?) or other inconveniences.

--
Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski

What bugs? Which inconveniences?

The biggest inconvenience of syslinux-6.03 is that it is supposed to bring EFI support, but that doesn't work for optical media, for instance you can't boot from a DVD in EFI mode. Other than that most of the few commits on the git log are mainly either cosmetic or just applying patches from downstream. I won't list bugs but if you have the patience to read the messages on the mailing list you will see that some aren't fixed since years (reading Ady's posts is instructive about that). This project is not dead, but nobody really works on it: Gene Cumm sometimes but he probably doesn't have the time to do significant development, Peter Anvin even less so.

So you won't probably ever see anything better than 4.07, which at least works well enough for BIOS firmware.

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libsoup-2.60.3
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sourc...-2.60.3.tar.xz
changes --> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sourc...up-2.60.3.news