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I have uploaded a set of new packages for Chromium 96.0.4664.110. The package updates for chromium-ungoogled will follow shortly, they are still compiling. This update follows on the heels of the previous one, and addresses a couple of severe/critical bugs.
One of them (being labeled as CVE-2021-4102, ‘use-after-free issue in the V8 JavaScript engine‘) is a zero-day vulnerability which is already actively exploited in the wild, according to Google’s report.
This is an urgent request to upgrade your package.
You can get the chromium and chromium-ungoogled packages from slackware.nl or its mirrors.
Eric
For various reasons, I have installed a Slackware VM yesterday. It turned out that I just can’t understand how network installation works (it won’t even find my network in a virtual machine), so I got the full DVD instead which worked better.
Sigh. Maybe some documentation on that would be fine..:
(I’m glad that I got LILO working this time! My previous attempt at running Slackware ended with me installing Gentoo instead.)
Have you ran through the "netconfig" shellscript? You need to login as root (login direct or use su -) to do so or use sudo. Which Slackware version are you running 14.2 or current?
When you run in a VM shuldn't it then be seen as an eth0 device? Sorry my last VM was some time ago. I only ask because then you can try to run "dhcpcd" or "dhclient" as root (or sudo), as in my experience they autoselect the first network interface.
On current you also have the possibility of using networkmanager.
Finaly if some of these things have success you can use the mentioned "netconfig" script to activate the interface at bootup, if it is not a standard one it might be necessary to modify /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf that it catches the right interface.
If you had gentoo installed you should be fine with editing shellscripts i think. And Slackware's are well commented usually.
Thu Jan 13 09:17:21 EST 2022 [32568]: Getting ChangeLog.txt...
0a1,178
> Wed Jan 12 22:04:33 UTC 2022
> Good hello, and welcome to the third and final release candidate for Slackware
> 15.0. We're 99% frozen at this point and are mostly looking for regression or
> other bug reports that might be able to be addressed before this goes stable.
> Of course, the management here reserves the right to make exceptions... that
> 5.15.15 kernel version has a nice ring to it. If your requests didn't make it
> into this iteration, perhaps we will revisit them for the next -current cycle.
> Some were just a little too late but will more than likely be needed next time
> (I'm looking at Didier's grubconfig), while others are just out of scope for
> the main tree where I like to abide by YAGNI as much as possible.
> Anyway, let's get some testing done and we'll be there soon. Enjoy! :-)
DistroWatch's popularity list - which is not more than a site access counter - is not a rating system.
In terms of rating, Slackware is already quite good.
DistroWatch's popularity list - which is not more than a site access counter - is not a rating system.
In terms of rating, Slackware is already quite good.
Most users i know not liking Slackware:
1. Installs stable and uses it for about two weeks...
2. Discovers -current that everyone warns him/her not to use yet installs it still...
3. In about two weeks of daily usage breaks the system for whatever reason
4. "Slackware is not good"
I think i can smell them from a mile after all these years.
> Mon Jan 17 22:44:42 UTC 2022
> Things haven't quite settled down yet with more bugfixes and a couple of safe
> upgrades, so not today folks. But enjoy Slackware's half-birthday anyway! ;-)
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