The Ultimate "When Will The Next Slackware Release Arrive" MegaThread

jimX86 · 08-18-2006, 11:02 PM

Thunar, the new XFCE file manager, can be compiled with HAL support. (Although I have not yet attempted to do this.)

zetabill · 08-19-2006, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Chinaman

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

Slackware 11.1 will have all this awesomeness after the ringing success of Slackware 11.

rkelsen · 08-19-2006, 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Chinaman

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

So you want this from the CLI?

Try usbmount:

http://usbmount.alioth.debian.org/

It's a Debian package, but contains nothing more than a few scripts and udev ".rules" files, and will play nice with Slackware. I have it working on 10.2 at the moment. It doesn't even require HAL or DBUS.

nykey · 08-19-2006, 03:53 PM

Looks like the Changelog isn't getting updated like it did, once or maybe twice a day, the latest updates were

Code:

Wed Aug 16 19:11:39 CDT 2006

then

Code:

Fri Aug 18 00:20:46 CDT 2006

Is this 'good' or 'bad' ?

Marsanghas · 08-19-2006, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by nykey

Is this 'good' or 'bad' ?

Yes it is :-)

redxii · 08-19-2006, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nykey

Looks like the Changelog isn't getting updated like it did, once or maybe twice a day, the latest updates were

Code:

Wed Aug 16 19:11:39 CDT 2006

then

Code:

Fri Aug 18 00:20:46 CDT 2006

Is this 'good' or 'bad' ?

It isn't a release candidate unless only bugs are being fixed, not adding more (*cough* dependencies *cough*) or upgrading packages. Besides, I am sure most of the text files say "Welcome to Slackware 10.2 with glibc 2.3.5 and kernel 2.4.31".

sockmonkee · 08-20-2006, 04:51 AM

sweet, RC2 is here! how long do you guys think until release, or will there be an RC3?

zux · 08-20-2006, 05:09 AM

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This is mostly frozen now

i think it means that there won't be any RC3

Old_Fogie · 08-20-2006, 05:13 AM

@rkelson:

I look forward to the KDE packages that you may make for slack 11 w/the UDEV and HAL support. It appears that those items are starting to be 'targeted' as a either present/or future requirement for many things, such as batteries for laptop mode (klaptop), and madwifi drivers (for controlling power transmission, range extender, etc.)

danpadams · 08-20-2006, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by zux

i think it means that there won't be any RC3

I hope that means that 11 will be very soon.

Dan

hitest · 08-20-2006, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by danpadams

I hope that means that 11 will be very soon.

Dan

I think 11 is indeed a lot closer.

tuxrules · 08-20-2006, 04:39 PM

I just noticed that gimp-print has been renamed to gutenprint. Current still has gimp-print 4.2.7. I hope Pat includes gutenprint (improved and renamed gimp-print package) version 5 that came out a few weeks back.

Waiting patiently for 11.

Tux,

rkelsen · 08-20-2006, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Old_Fogie

@rkelson:

I look forward to the KDE packages that you may make for slack 11 w/the UDEV and HAL support. It appears that those items are starting to be 'targeted' as a either present/or future requirement for many things, such as batteries for laptop mode (klaptop), and madwifi drivers (for controlling power transmission, range extender, etc.)

Just to clarify; I haven't got the web space to make a kdebase package publicly available. I'll make some HAL & DBUS packages which will work with Slackware 11 and post up a webpage about how to get them working with KDE. Also, the later versions of HAL require PAM, so it'll have to be an older version from a few months back.

Quote:

Originally Posted by zux

i think it means that there won't be any RC3

Unless there are more bugs (or irresistable upgrades) found!!

danpadams · 08-20-2006, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by hitest

I think 11 is indeed a lot closer.

Are there any thoughts as to what the current changelog indicates that is needed left for Slackware 11 to come out. The only thing that I can think of is the program that actually setups the packages and instals Linux, or is that created somewhere that I am not thinking of.

Dan

win32sux · 08-20-2006, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by danpadams

Are there any thoughts as to what the current changelog indicates that is needed left for Slackware 11 to come out. The only thing that I can think of is the program that actually setups the packages and instals Linux, or is that created somewhere that I am not thinking of.

Dan

that's in the ramdisk image on the cd... IIRC, it's been patched a few times already... it's /isolinux/initrd.img and it shows it was last modified on Aug 20: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...rrent/isolinux