On behalf of Patrick Volkerding and the Slackware team I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of this shiny new distribution.

As it includes too many new or updated packages to list all here, please see the appended Readme.

You will notice that Slackware 1.1.2 ships the recently released kernel 0.99.15 as well as Smalltalk 1.1.1, the Smalltalk Interface to X and ParcPlace's Object Builder 2.0.

Though no ISO images be available at time of writing, you can already get _the_best_ever_Slackware_release_ at http://ftp.belnet.be/pub/mirror/ftp....ackware-1.1.2/

And you will find a recent interview with Patrick where he speaks about this release here

Have fun!

Oh, and I almost forgot: of course you can order your own copy at the Slackware Store

And if you want to see some screen-shots of this version, take a look here.

Haha, nice joke . It also made me consider installing one of those archaic versions for fun.

That's good news, it was about time for another release.

Finally...something bleeding-edge!

Even xclock is included!
Where's the fun of fine-tuning slackware? Everything is already included and configured.

Is good news , is time to me to try slackware

For you real legacy freaks, try this: ftp://ftp.noc.soton.ac.uk/pub/pwc101...e-1.01.tar.bz2

I had it installed and running for a while, but can't remember what it was like. Currently giving it another shot in VirtualBox - so far, the first floppy boots fine, I'll try installing it in a little while...

Ha-ha, good one.

Poisson d'avril Didier!
I've already been tricked by YouTube and TuxRadar today, so I'm staying offline till the end of the day!!!

Great !! As soon as I'm home I want to test this exciting new slackware release !! May be today is April 1st ?

David

Ok, so it's a slow day at work.

I've made a VirtualBox virtual disk of the Slackware 1.01 installation if you should wish to try it.

Get it at: ftp://ftp.noc.soton.ac.uk/pub/pwc101/

There's three tar.bz2 archives in there:

1. Slackware-1.01.tar.bz2
2. slackware-1.01_disk_images.tar.bz2
3. Slackware-1.01.vdi.bz2

1. The files that need to go on the floppies to install from in the virtual machine.
2. Floppy images of the files from 1 named a1.img,a2.img ... x10.img. Boot off the first one (a1.img) to start the installation. Then read!
3. If you can't be bothered to install it yourself, you can just download this, make a virtual machine in VirtualBox, point it at this VDI file, and then boot from the drive. It has lilo installed, so should just boot to a login prompt. There's only a root user (no password).

Specs for the virtual machine I set up were:

128MB RAM
8MB Graphics RAM
128MB Hard drive (see download above).

I haven't got the archives needed to install X (I think you need the SLS X packages for that), but everything else seems to work OK.

Some screenshots for the curious are attached.

Attached Thumbnails

     

Mmmmmmm... Eye candy.

Do I need to install those on virtual 5.25 floppies?

You can use 3.5" virtual floppies instead, according to annonce.txt file in the a1 directory:The first computer I used at work, back in 1978, brand DTC (Data Terminal and Communications), model MicroFile, had one (or two ?) 8" floppy disk drive(s), an OS of its own, an Intel 8080 and 64 Kb RAM. Dunno if you can still find one in a museum.