What should go in the next major Slack release (NOT 10.1, and assuming Pat heals up soon)

I say the latest 2.6 kernel should be used by default, as well as Glibc using NPTL.

How about GCC 3.4? I think by the time we get to Slack 11's release it'll be stable and widespread enough.

The first program I install is usually ROX-filer, so I'd like to see that included, plus a more up-to-date version of Fluxbox. OpenOffice would be nice, but I can't see that being included without having to add another CD to the set or lose some other stuff that people want. Firefox would also be nice.

As long as Slack stays clean and stable, so I can add other bits and pieces as they take my fancy, that's fine by me.

Pre-compiled ATI drivers that work!

Fluxbox has already been updated to 0.9.10 in -current, so that will be up to date in 10.1. There might be room to add software, however, since Patrick has talked about dropping gnome from the distribution.

support for proper read/write to NTFS =)
minidisc drivers
ATI drivers that actually work
apache 2

and a port to cisco routers

for the next major release I'd like to see the 2.6.x kernel moved from testing/extras to the main install.

reiser4 would be great.

I would add ethereal, an nice sniffer is always useful, tcpdump simple doesn't cut it.

And although I don't have the latest version I would like that the default instalation to come with all ports closed by default.

Also distributing the kernel with the grsecurity patch already applied, but not enabled would be cool.

I would also like to remark that going towards KDE or Gnome doesn't seem sensible to me as most people go for flux or blackbox anyway and I would guess it takes a lot of effort to maintain.

REALLY?! Wow, that's new... last I checked roughly 90% of Linux users who actually uses X, chose either KDE or Gnome as their DE... not that I'm really bothered... I use XFce myself

Anyway... I agree with you on ethereal though.

Slackware will still have fluxbox, blackbox and a TON of other WMs available like it does at the moment, whether it decides to drop gnome or not.

Yeah, Ethereal would be great. Maybe nedit. Endeavour mk II.

Well if the rumours about taking gnome away prove to be true then I'm usre they'll have ample space for OOo.

Personally I'd like to see reiserfs4 and kernel 2.6.x

as has already been said (I'm just posting to increase percieved demand):

Open Office (version 2 should be out by the time Slack 11 is ready) and Reiser4 would be nice as would kernel 2.6.x (as soon as it's judged stable enough. PV's the best judge on that)

About Reiser4, I'm not too sure I'd like this included until support for the filesystem is built into the vanilla kernel. I'd hate Slack to have a custom (heavily patched) kernel.

All of you saying that GNOME should be dropped....let me say something...

I was a KDE junkie and I hated GNOME with a passion...I use RedHat from 6.0 and started looking for alternative versions just because of GNOME and BlueCurve....

I installed Slackware about a month back and just thought I'll give GNOME a try(more because my room mate insisted on leaving it out ) . And guess what... I am now using only GNOME...not KDE and not even XFCE... GNOME is very very good now according to me and they are doing an excellent job.... so I am very sad about all this news about Pat dropping GNOME suppport I hope he includes it...otherwise I will move off from Slack to either Debian or Suse.....

PS : My room mate is also now addicted into GNOME and uses nothing else..

I doubt he'll actually drop Gnome. It's Gnome - a sort of universal package. Even if it happens, there's still Dropline Gnome.