Alien Pastures

Just to add another message to the turmoil of cheering blog posts
Slackware 13.1 has been released today.
Read all about it in the official announcement or  read the ANNOUNCE.TXT directly.
As usual, it is recommended (but not mandatory) to buy a copy of the DVD or CD-set which helps funding the development of the distro [...]

Hi folks
As the Slackware ChangeLog states:
Fri May 14 19:37:13 UTC 2010
Good hello! We will call this update Slackware 13.1 RC1. With this, the
kernel, compiler, and glibc versions are “golden”, and everything is
pretty much ready to release. Last call for bug reports…
I’m in the process of building the multilib versions of [...]

Am I hearing sighs of relief yet?
Today, Pat Volkerding pushed out the work that has been accumulating for slackware-current behind the scenes during the past four weeks (make take a little while to reach the mirrors).
This triggered some updates to the multilib and KDE 4.4 packages which I maintain, so if you run Slackware64-multilib [...]

For those running the 64-bit version of Slackware, I keep making available multilib versions of Slackware’s 64-bit gcc and glibc packages. Yesterday, gcc in slackware-current was updated to version 4.4.3, so here they are.
You can get them here: http://slackware.com/~alien/multilib/13.1/ (The “13.1″ may or may not be the version of the next Slackware release, I just [...]

… Ok, ok, it is not so bad actually! Au contraire!
Slackware Linux development made a big leap today, when Pat Volkerding updated the distro’s “vital organs” of kernel, glibc and gcc. The “dull” phase of the slackware-current development cycle is over hopefully, and it’s back to the bleeding edge.
To be fair, gcc 4.4.2 has been [...]

Perhaps you run the 64-bit Slackware 13.0. If so, did you by any chance install my 32bit multilib packages on top, and then ran the slackpkg command after that?
There was a bug in my multilib conversion script convertpkg-compat32 (all versions before “10alien“). The compat32-tools package which I have uploaded today contains a fixed version (11alien).
If [...]

By now, the world will be well aware that there was a new release of Slackware Linux last week. Yes, Slackware 13.0 is there… just when I was enjoying a quiet holiday at the french coast. A pity that the release date slipped past the start of my vacation, I always enjoy the virtual “party” [...]