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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Year 2023, Round 53
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Wednesday, 11 October 2023, at approximately 13:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Tuesday (depending on your time zone).
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Originally Posted by cwizardone
FWIW: Built and installed the 6.6-rc1 kernel and encountered the same problems as with the 6.5.y series and that is, dosemu (not dosbox) and WINE do not work. Everything else, such as, LibreOffice, VLC, XnView, VirtualBox, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc., work as they should. And, as previously mentioned, dosemu and WINE work just fine with the kernel series 6.1.y through 6.4.y.........
FWIW: Just built and installed the 6.6-rc5 kernel and both WINE and dosemu are working as they should. As to why, I really don't know, but I'll take it.
FWIW: Just built and installed the 6.6-rc5 kernel and both WINE and dosemu are working as they should. As to why, I really don't know, but I'll take it.
.......The short version is that everything looks normal, and there's just
the usual random fixes all over the place. So we'll see the final
release in two weeks unless something odd happens.........
Last edited by cwizardone; 10-15-2023 at 05:41 PM.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,139
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Year 2023, Round 54
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Wednesday, 18 October 2023, at approximately 08:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Tuesday (depending on your time zone).
I am always left at loss of words how such a great news can be such a bad omen at the same time.
I wonder how this will play into Slackware-current and the next Slackware stable kernel pick, but I hope it to be any past 6.5 as many things hinge on that pick in the ARM port of our fairest of them all distribution (Slackware).
Oddly enough each of the cip kernels are off for past Slackware releases too:
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