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There was just a massive change with KDE4/qt4 completely removed, KDE5 added, and xfce 4.14 added. All that remains is 5.10 kernel and the possibility of 4.16 being added. Will 4.16 be added is the question right now.
There was just a massive change with KDE4/qt4 completely removed, KDE5 added, and xfce 4.14 added. All that remains is 5.10 kernel and the possibility of 4.16 being added. Will 4.16 be added is the question right now.
Mon Dec 7 21:49:58 UTC 2020
Goodbye vtown... we hardly knew you.
It is indeed the day of the Big Merge(tm) leaving nothing left in /testing (but
I'll try to work on that soon). In addition to merging packages from /testing,
Qt4 and related packages have gone away, along with some other libraries that
were only used by KDE4. Perhaps someone will want to take up maintenance of Qt4
(but I'm also pretty sure that SBo wouldn't touch that build script with a ten
foot pole). ConsoleKit2 is gone, replaced by elogind (which also takes over for
cgmanager and pm-utils).
Huge thanks to Eric Hameleers, Heinz Wiesinger, and Robby Workman for all the
help making this possible.
There's still more cleanup to do here, but that'll be easier with everything in
the main tree instead of maintaining side installs running the /testing
packages.
I'll look into what can be done about extra/pure-alsa-system/ soon.
Enjoy! :-)
Changeover from vtown to -current happened without a hitch. I had to reinstall the updated version of kbd that I had upgraded to yesterday and FF because I use 83.0 but that was it. Kudos to Pat and his colleagues for a seamless transition.
I am going to look into LXC 4.0 and also CGroup V2. According to https://wiki.debian.org/LXC/CGroupV2 running rootless containers with CGroup V2 requires systemd-run, though. As Slackware neither has got AppArmor nor SELinux it is not recommended to use privileged containers on Slackware.
The author of https://medium.com/nttlabs/cgroup-v2-596d035be4d7 predicts that "community-driven distros will switch to cgroup v2 by default in 2020–2021. Enterprise distros will probably stay on cgroup v1 until 2022–2023."
Changeover from vtown to -current happened without a hitch. I had to reinstall the updated version of kbd that I had upgraded to yesterday and FF because I use 83.0 but that was it. Kudos to Pat and his colleagues for a seamless transition.
Seriously, that was a massive upgrade and I rebooted to a new system ready to work. Very cool.
Oh Man! I'm getting excited! It's like the days before Christmas wondering what Santa will place under the tree. Wait!.... Is PV really Santa ?... and here some kid in 2nd grade told me he wasn't real! ... just like Slackware 15.
Glad to see Pat getting KDE5 and Xfce whipped into shape. After the store fiasco, I'm happy to see mine and others financial contributions helping keep my favorite linux distro active. Next I'd like to see a jump tp 5.10 kernel for all the new AMD Ryzen and NAVI GPU gear I now have.
Firefox 68 isn't downloading the custom fonts via @font-face style element 'aktiv-grotesk' from the patreon page. A quick workaround is to disable using "Allow pages to choose their own fonts..." This popped up before in FF earlier versions, but I do not recall the fix, even after comparing both (78.x in current and 68 in 14.2) side by side. a CSS setting, security or whatever...too tired too explore futher...
Why would any one contribute to this team the way Eric Hameleers has treated people on this forum. It is free. It is free just down load it I stop contributing to Slackware 3 years ago when bob was rude to many of the devs in here that were not up to to the latest with slackware. look just use it. drink a beer.. it is a cult.
it is my tool. Trust me 2 of the Slackware teams are real tools. CC is an input. learn it team.
According to the dbus-launch(1) manual page distributions can run dbus-launch as part of an X session. I've got the below change in my /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession script for a long time. I don't know anything about the other window managers in that file, but a lot of of them could probably be run with dbus-launch too.
I've always wondered why Perl isn't built with the manual page directories set to /usr/man and /usr/local/man. A lot of SlackBuild scripts could be simplified with this change.
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