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slackware64 – yay!

May 20, 2009 / / 9 Comments

[tap tap tap]… Is this thing on? 😉

Ready or not, Slackware has now gone 64-bit with an official x86_64 port being maintained in-sync with the regular x86 -current branch. DVDs will be available for purchase from the Slackware store when Slackware 13.0 is released. Many thanks go out to the Slackware team for their help with this branch and a special thank you to Eric Hameleers who did the real heavy lifting re-compiling everything for this architecture, testing, re-testing, and staying in-sync with -current.

We’ve been developing and testing Slackware64 for quite a while. Most of the team is already using Slackware64 on their personal machines, and things are working well enough that it is time to let the community check our work.

We’d like to thank the unofficial 64 bit projects for taking up the slack for us for so long so that we could take our time getting everything just right. Without those alternatives, we would have been pressured to get things out before they were really ready.

As always — have fun!

Pat and the Slackware crew

There you have it – the official 64bit version of Slackware 🙂 Eight months in the making, running stable and fast on the developers’computers for over four months now. Time to allow more people to enjoy it.

Eric

Slackware 12.2

December 12, 2008 / / 0 Comments

And out of the clear sky, a message appeared:

Well folks, it's that time to announce a new stable Slackware
release again.
So, without further ado, announcing Slackware version 12.2!

This release cycle was a relatively short one, and is intended as the final version which ships with KDE3. Still, the changes are numerous, as you can find out on the official announcement page. All major applications have been updated to their latest stable versions, and with X.Org we have gone as far as we could without compromising system stability. No PAM, folks 🙂 and don’t count on that appearing any time soon.

The ISO images for 12.2 can be obtained through bittorrent and some of the Slackware mirrors will by now also have these ISO images for download. Still, I ask everyone who can spare the money and wishes Slackware a long life, to buy a DVD or CD set at the Store, or make a donation there. They have cool t-shirts too!

Our community site slackbuilds.org was expanded with a quality-tested repository of SlackBuild scripts that work flawlessly on Slackware 12.2. Again, we were able to open the expanded respository at the same time Slackware 12.2 was released 🙂 Many thanks to all the contributors who helped us verifying their scripts… our collection has grown tremendously.

A heartfelt touch to the release event: Pat pulled the trigger that made Slackware 12.2 go live at exactly midnight, december 11th (local dutch time). This moment marked the birthday of my father, who passed away earlier this year.

I hope you all enjoy the new Slackware. If you find any weirdness or think you ran into a bug, please visit the Slackware forum at LinuxQuestions.org and post your problems or findings there. Several members of the Slackware team frequent that place.

Cheers, Eric

Slackware 12.2 is nearing release

December 9, 2008 / / 2 Comments

The Slackware ChangeLog.txt is full of frenzied activity these days. It may be obvious that the next official release is just around the corner. I was taken by surprise when I saw the ChangeLog entry of Mon Dec 8 22:31:55 CST 2008:

isolinux/initrd.img:  Added missing mount.nfs.
       Added INSSMB, an installer script to use a Samba source.
       Thanks to Eric Hameleers.

I had not expected to see the Samba network installation choice appear in this release… I wrote this fairly recently and it was targeted to be added only after 12.2 was officially released. Anyway, it is nice to see it appear now. All you need to use it, is a Samba share (using a Samba or even a Windows server) that does not require authentication.

This is how that looks when you are installing Slackware 12.2:

Network install options

Slackware 12.2 network install options

Hope you all like it! It will certainly make life easier for those who only have a Windows server to store the Slackware directory tree on.

A related note:

At the same time, we (the http://slackbuilds.org admin team) are working hard behind the screens to get all the SlackBuild scripts in our “12.1” repository validated for the new 12.2 release. We have asked all maintainers to test their own contributions when possible, and for those who do not have a slackware-current system available, we will do the validation ourselves. The http://slackbuilds.org web site is already prepared, so the update should be fast and painless.

Cheers, Eric

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