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It looks like the last release was in 2016... seems about 4 and 1/2 years since that release... is Slackware still getting updated? Should I try to install it on a new laptop?
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Mon Jan 18 13:50:16 UTC 2021
Hey folks, a little status update here. First, huge thanks are due to
nobodino for helping to shake out packages that weren't building from source.
With all those fixes in place (plus a few more), we have tested and found that
everything in the tree compiles cleanly against glibc-2.32. So, the plan is to
have another mass rebuild soon against that. Although the ABI didn't
technically change, I've heard that libpthread may not be 100% compatible in
some corner cases, so we'll err on the side of caution. Hopefully we can get a
little testing done on the recompiled system and then go through it all again
at the beginning of next month when glibc-2.33 is released. Other than that,
how's Mesa working these days? If there are still issues that are resolved by
dropping back to the previous branch, let's try to figure those out. I'd rather
not revert Mesa unless there's no other choice. I'm hoping that the (probably
unrelated) issues with Intel video hardware will be helped by today's
xorg-server patch that uses the modesetting driver with newer chipsets. Please
report any improvement on the LQ thread.
Beta approaches. :-)
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Well........ ...... if someone would update the web site once in a while, new or potentially new users, wouldn't have reason to start these threads.
Maybe just one line at the very top saying something like, "For the latest development information please check the change logs."
As I've said before, I would be willing to do it if given access and pointed in the right direction to learn what I need to know to get the job done.
Well........ ...... if someone would update the web site once in a while, new or potentially new users, wouldn't have reason to start these threads.
Maybe just one line at the very top saying something like, "For the latest development information please check the change logs."
As I've said before, I would be willing to do it if given access and pointed in the right direction to learn what I need to know to get the job done.
Well the OP found his way to this forum, a quick look at the activity of this forum should be all that is needed to see Slackware is not dead.
Last edited by chrisretusn; 02-03-2021 at 07:02 AM.
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Is Slackware dead in 2021?
...... if someone would update the web site once in a while, new or potentially new users, wouldn't have reason to start these threads.
