From Mondays changelog:

Looks like it's here if you follow current

Fixed for accuracy

I've changed my /etc/slackware-version to 11.0.rc1

I just thought I should share this after been in contact with Pat.
I got told there will be maybe 1 more RC release. But maybe not one.
So it cant be long time left now until 11.0 is shipped as stable.

I don't see much point in screenshots for a distro - especially Slackware, which just uses the defaults for most things (which is the way I like it). A new KDE release might be different...

Maybe osdir is like the newspapers ... they gotta put something on there
to get people to look at their stuff so they can flood you with ads.

And we all know that Slackware being one of the most popular Linux distros
will attract plenty of views.

Though I agree with you ... it's nothing special to show us ... and really
quite boring IMO.

We're getting closer...

Haha... you know I checked out that link in my boredom and actually had to laugh a little bit because if I wanted to see all that I would have installed 10.2. It's all so very straightforward and I agree that using the defaults is better. The only difference that I noticed was the pictures of KDE and it's probably because it's a newer version that when I installed 10.2

The goosebumps are rising and I'm already backing up stuff that I haven't touched in months to make everything quick and easy.

As for me... I'm checking the changelog right before bed and right as I wake up to make sure I get there ASAP. I've been stalling on installing linux on a friend's uncle's computer. It's an older computer and he doesn't really care what goes on it as long as the viruses are gone and he can check his e-mail and surf the web. He hasn't installed a single piece of software on that computer since he bought it 5 years ago so Slackware will be great for it.

As a side note... I noticed in those screenshots that it asked whether you wanted hotplug enabled. I have no intention whatsoever of using a kernel older than huge26.s and was wondering if you said no to that question would udev be set up by default or would some tweaking be necessary?

Not gonna dwell on it though.

The readme has a great description on how to install the 2.6.13 kernel in Slackware 10.2. The readme is located on the 1st Slackware CD. Pat will also provide instructions on how to install the 2.6.xx kernel in 11. I don't know if udev will be activated by default, we'll need to wait and see what happens.

This is now the default with a Slackware-11.0 RC1 installation:
If you boot with a 2.4 kernel, it activates hotplug.
If you boot with a 2.6 kernel, it activates udev.

Thanks, Chinaman! I appreciate your reply.

You're welcome. I have not been able to properly configure
udev in the past, but am about to try. I'd really like to
plug in a device, such as my camera or USB flash disks, and
have Slackware mount it and tell me what it is; just like
that eXPensive operating system does.

That's my test box, and I am about to learn about this udev
fellow, and much more stuffs.

Cool. The one thing I like about other OSs like Debian, Winders is the ability to easily interface with devices like my camera:-)
Hopefully, we'll be able to easily mount, access devices with udev in Slackware. Interesting times ahead.

Tip: You'll need HAL and DBUS to do these things. HAL must be compiled against the linux-libc-headers. It doesn't work with plain kernel headers (any version). Also, you'll need to re-compile kdebase.

I am planning upon creating some HAL & DBUS packages once Slackware 11 is released and making them publicly available.

Thanks for the reply.

That will preclude me being able to just mount and see the devices,
as I'm not compiling anything with kde in the name.

Perhaps one day Pat will have Slackware doing that like Windoze,
without need any kde stuff.