Slackware 11?
 

Maybe I'm jumping to quick...'just wondering if Slackware 11 is planned for this year or what? Thanks!
-Galen

I am thinking it is possible, although maybe there isn't a Slackware 11 release just yet, is probably due to the fact that Pat has not yet moved on to the 2.6 series of kernels, and I can bet that is one of the things that might be holding back the next big release of Slackware 11.

There's certainly a lot of updates in current from 10.1. Pat is probably also waiting for a bit more stability from KDE3.4 and maybe for KOffice 1.4 to go gold. He seems to release about once every 6 months so there is no panic yet.

gcc 4.0 might make it into the distro as well.

The release cycle of slackware is 6 months, like clock work. I don't now if that is intentional or not by Pat. Anyway, an official release is kinda meaningless with slackware. Pat just releases slackware-current every six months and calls it slackware #. I just stay current by rsyncing slackware-current and about ever six months I have an "official release". :)

so do you compile the kernel too?, or do you go with a clean install with every new release?

Why clean install when an official release comes out? I already have the an exact duplicate by rsyncing with current. At least until the next update of current is issued after the release.

Whenever, I'm in the mood I compile the kernel. Found that compiling for my arch and what not doesn't give me any noticable difference in speed or ram. Only compile if I need to patch the kernel now or if I'm bored.

I can't wait for slack 11, i hope the 2.6 kernel adds some speed. Actually does anyone who compiles there own kernels (2.6) notice any major differences in performance?

Its debatable whether or not how much of a performance boost there is when recompiling the kernel, however in my opinion, I don't there is anything wrong with recompiling the kernel to fit your needs, not for much for the sake of speed, but removing any features of the kernel that you may or may not need, in my case, I don't need any wireless support, maybe certain filesystems I can do without, things like that, which can reduce the size of your kernel if you remove anything you don't need, but there might not be a much of a noticeable difference in performance.

it is more a security, hardware compatibility and bug-solved type of issue.

...and a lot of time if you are trying to figure it out for the first time (I just gave up after messing it up once!)

-Galen

For me, I am looking for a Slackware-11 release mainly for the hope that reiser4 will be included.. :) I can't dare movingto reiser4 unless it is a fresh install... :)
I don't know it actually speeds up or just I feel like it is faster, but recompiling my kernel seems to make some difference, especially with hotplug.

But I must mention that I do a "pack of changes" whenever I reinstall the OS, so extra speed might be due to some other modification..

BTW, does compiling the kernel with a newer GCC version make any difference?

The ARCH guys claim that compiled code with gcc 4.0 to significantly larger than 3.x. Of course this does not automatically mean slower.

It is generally likely to be faster, but larger code means more memory and more time for it to be loaded from disk.. That would make a difference for me, as I have a notebook with a 4200rpm disk.. :)

Since we're on the topic of new releases of Slackware...did Pat change his mind on supporting GNOME (is he still going to support it or not?) Thanks!
-Galen