Slack 11.1
 

I think I can feel Slack 11.1 right now......current already 8 days freezing :)

Doubt it.

Maybe it's something you ate?

;)

It has been awhile since the last -current update, but that doesn't really mean much. Look at how long it took before -current was updated after the Slackware 11.0 release. Just because we aren't seeing anything in -current doesn't mean that Pat isn't working on something behind the scenes. For all anyone knows, tomorrow he might put up 100 new packages.

Since he has not officially said development is frozen, we have to assume it is still continuing, albeit quietly. When development freezes, he will announce it in the Changelog, and then there will still be awhile before he makes that an official release. We haven't even had an RC1 yet, let alone it being ready for an official 11.1 release.

arghh forgit the RCs :-)

I don't think it's gonna be released for a while ... not while it's crashing like it is.

Exactly what is crashing?

Not sure. I know I tried upgrading at one point, but it would crash randomly. It was a few weeks ago, so, it may be fixed now ... dunno.

keeping a system running bleeding edge -current can be a pain as it's currently changing causing compatibility issues with various packages. I would recommend only patching the software when updates are sent out for -stable from Patrick rather than following -current too closely on a production machine

No crashes over here.

What is causing yours to crash?

Hey, maybe it wasn't anything directly Slackware related ... I mean mostly there were some xserver crashes, and few lock-ups, but not too many. As I said, maybe it's all fixed now. I'll try upgrading to -current again soon ... maybe on my laptop this time.

Still, I wouldn't say it's as stable as ... Slackware 11.0 (duh :)) ... therefore, maybe next release (11.1 or whatever) won't be so soon. (or maybe it will ?)

Mine -current keeps crashing X after I shutdown Xine. I don't remember was it same with MPlayer too. I find this quite irritating :)

Ah, -current has received loads of updates yesterday :) Gotta test'em, I had trouble installing KDE yesterday as some of the packages failed to install properly. I installed all KDE packages but K-Menu was almost empty, hopefully this solves that issue.

Big changes indeed. HAL has been added, and KDE has been re-compiled to suit. Interesting stuff.

I'll be looking into Pat's Slackbuild scripts for everything, to see how he did it all. I've compiled HAL a few times on various Slackware installations, and it always seemed "clunky," like I did something wrong somewhere. It'll be interesting to see how it all works!

Whenever you upgrade KDE, you should delete your ~/.kde directory.

Ok, I'll test that but my problem appeared after I installed KDE for first time.
I try to delete the folder and upgrade KDE after it to see if it will solve my issue.