i agree with you... but the shift is very unlikely to happen for 11.0 IMHO, which is precisely what a lot of people have speculated on this thread...

i believe 11.0 will ship with 2.4.32, or perhaps patrick will wait for 2.4.33, as it's already in -rc2 status (at the time of this post)... i think he should wait for 2.4.33, considering how riddled with bugs 2.4.32 is, but who knows...

Maybe Pat is waiting to compete with Vista

just a joke...

like some people have already said in this thread,
slackware 10.2 didn't worked for me, and I just can´t
understand why...
In my last try it was wine that didn't worked,
and since I need it for playing my diablo (I'm a addict),
I gave up...
I remember that the changelog they said that it was a x.org package problem, and it was being fixed in a new package release, it didn't worked...

Another big problem in 10.2 for me is that there is no gnome. Ok, I'm a kde fan and user, but there is some programs that you can't live without!
(gimp, gthumb, grip, gcalc, ...)

I'm a slack user & fan since slack 9. Then moved to 10 and then to 10.1. Since then I live in the cvs way for all my programs and kernel, but for the system packages I'd rather be more carefull.

Every day I go to slackware.com to see if there is any "Slackware 11 released", and when it comes I'll try it, for sure, but thinking about gnome and wine bothers me...

There are a few very good Slackware versions of Gnome. I've run Freerock and it was very good. Now I'm running Dropline Gnome on my Slackware 10.2 box. I highly recommend Dropline.
I love the fact that I can easily use Java in Fire Fox 1.5.0.4 to access my company data base.
Heh, I had to use apt-get in Ubuntu to get Java. Java works out of the box when you install Dropline.
Dropline is highly polished, mature.

Can anyone recommend a good 64 Bit distro?

Cheers,
Ithaycu

@hitest

I have a huge problem with java not working at all in KDE/firefox/slack10.2

do you mean to tell me that putting in gnome the java works? really? OMG if that is true I guess I have to consider putting it in.

delete please

Java has nothing to do with gnome, if it didn't worki without gnome it won't work with gnome. But I don't know why java don't work for you. Have you installed jre-1_5_0_04-i586-2.tgz from the l directory of slackware ?

sorry for bad english.

It's probably mostly an issue in regards to the plugin symlink within the Firefox plugins directory. It utilizes the existing Java plugin from Slackware's Java jre-1_5_0_04-i586-2.tgz package.

With Dropline, we have a custom Firefox build that sets a symlink to the Java plugin during its installation phase. It probably should work with Slackware's stock Firefox package as well. We tend to keep Firefox plugins in a constant, non-versioned location though on Dropline systems.

If you have jre-1_5_0_04-i586-2.tgz installed, just make sure that your java plugin is symlinked from within the Firefox plugins directory. E.g...

Slackware's Firefox build is patched to look in the existing Mozilla directory (/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/) for plugins as well. So, you could probably just use that as a centralized plugin location if you prefer to use both browsers.

Java works for me. Just make sure you have a symlink in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins to /usr/lib/jre{insert_version}/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so. Verify it works by checking about:plugins in Firefox.

SuSE is supposed to be very good on 64 bit architectures. I stopped using it a while back (32bit), but my problems were mostly of a newbie nature. If you use slackware you should be able to get around these with no problem.

On the surface, SuSE is more or less like Mandriva and Redhat (both of which have 64bit builds, I believe), in that there's lots of included scripts and such and pre-ordained everything. It does not have Mandriva's infuriating wizards, though. It does have a nice gui which spits out scripts and modifies files and whatnot (yast2).

If you're really adventurous, you could try LFS or the like.

You could also start with the 32bit version of slackware, and go through and starting with the kernel, recompile everything, still using the stock scripts.

Yep! Java just works for me now! I had issues with my old Slackware 10.2 box and decided to do a clean install of 10.2. I read great things here about Dropline Gnome and decided to give it a try. Installed Dropline last night and then tried logging onto a website that needs Sun Java and it just worked. Life is good:-)

I dont know about any of the others you mention, but I run Slack 10.2 with KDE and use GIMP every day - it was right on the CD. I'd venture to bet that the others are also easy to install and run in KDE.

My java works fine straight out of the box with a fresh -current install

Cool. I'm not running current. So I can assume that 11.0 will probably run java straight out of the box too.
Thanks. Good to know.

To be fair, so did 10.2. I upgraded it (java from Sun), then made the symlinks according to the install instructions, and never had an issue with 10.0, 10.1, nor 10.2 either.