Slackware 15.0 RC1

chess · 08-16-2021, 07:12 AM

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Mon Aug 16 05:28:16 UTC 2021
Hey everyone, long time no see! No, I wasn't out fishing. Sadly, I haven't had
a fishing rod in my hand (or even a fishing license in my wallet) for this
entire season, but there may yet be a chance for that this year. Along with the
usual suspects, I've been trying to clear out the list of things that needed
to get done in order to reach the standard of excellence demanded from a
Slackware release, and I think we've gotten it pretty close. GCC was bumped to
version 11.2.0 (because we just can't send this out 2 versions behind), and
everything was verified to build properly or fixed up so that it did. I don't
see any benefit to another public mass rebuild, so we're not going to do one.
Anyway, without further ado, here is Slackware 15.0 release candidate one.
Consider most things frozen and the focus now to be any remaining blocker bugs.
We'll more than likely take that next Plasma bugfix release, but it's soon
time to get off this treadmill. Enjoy! :-)

Hopefully Pat can go fishing soon. :-)

Lysander666 · 08-16-2021, 07:22 AM

I'm pleased. Enjoy, all. It's been a long wait.

And yes, Pat, I did think you were on a fishing holiday!

hazel · 08-16-2021, 07:35 AM

Does that mean that when I next update my slackware -current, it will become stable like 14.2 with no more huge updates?

marav · 08-16-2021, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by hazel

Does that mean that when I next update my slackware -current, it will become stable like 14.2 with no more huge updates?

slackware-current will always be -current until you change your mirror from /slackware(64)-current/ to /slackware(64)-15.0/

teoberi · 08-16-2021, 07:41 AM

Slackware64-current is very stable now only it is not as old as 14.2

enine · 08-16-2021, 07:55 AM

somebody buy that man an fishing license

kgha · 08-16-2021, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by marav

slackware-current will always be -current until you change your mirror from /slackware(64)-current/ to /slackware(64)-15.0/

Don't think any such mirrors exist yet, despite what the new mirror file in today's slackpkg-15.0.7-noarch-1.txz says.

hazel · 08-16-2021, 07:59 AM

It's not present on the Bytemark mirror site. I just checked.

Lysander666 · 08-16-2021, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by enine

somebody buy that man an fishing license

- Slackware 15.0 RC1 just released
- Slackware forum starts talking about fishing

ceed · 08-16-2021, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by hazel

Does that mean that when I next update my slackware -current, it will become stable like 14.2 with no more huge updates?

That was certainly my own reading of the changelog @hazel, but I guess nothing can be guaranteed until release.

marav · 08-16-2021, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by kgha

Don't think any such mirrors exist yet, despite what the new mirror file in today's slackpkg-15.0.7-noarch-1.txz says.

right

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slackware-current will always be -current until you change your mirror from /slackware(64)-current/ to /slackware(64)-15.0/

+ when 15.0 is officially released

EdGr · 08-16-2021, 08:23 AM

Slackware and Debian seem to be having a horse race.

Debian 11 was released two days ago. Slackware 15 is later but has newer packages. Eventually people will mostly remember Slackware's packages being newer.
Ed

LuckyCyborg · 08-16-2021, 08:28 AM

The obligatory Phoronix article is there:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...kware-15.0-RC1

This gentleman looks watching careful (also) our ChangeLog...

hitest · 08-16-2021, 09:48 AM

Slackware64 15.0 RC1! It's a glorious day. Many thanks to Mr. Volkerding and the entire Slackware Team.

Code:

bash-5.1$ uname -a
Linux odin.darkstar.home 5.13.11 #1 SMP Sun Aug 15 12:28:58 CDT 2021 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

enine · 08-16-2021, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Lysander666

- Slackware 15.0 RC1 just released
- Slackware forum starts talking about fishing

I caught one this big ..........