Hey folks, my first order of business here needs to be a huge thank you to
everyone who has donated at https://paypal.me/volkerdi to help keep this
project going. As most of you are already aware by now, the financal situation
here at Slackware HQ has not been great for many years, including not getting
any pay for the last two years and forcing me (and my family) to live very
frugally while I continued to work on the project hoping I'd figure out a way
to actually monitize it by the time that Slackware 15.0 is ready for release.
I'm not trying to cast any blame regarding the situation. Really, I can only
blame myself for not trying to build my own ship years ago when things began
to not really work out. I'm still looking into sustainable funding options
such as Patreon or Liberapay (or perhaps both), and I'm open to other ideas.
I'm no longer in immediate danger of going broke, and I'm no longer
entertaining the notion of joining my friends at the local potato chip factory
in order to pay my bills. :) My family is grateful and humbled by the support
we've received. Hope we'll be able to keep this project going for a long time.
Also, I realize that the website lacks updates and needs attention and I will
need to find some time to devote to that. I've never been much of a website
designer, and the slackware.com site is basically left over from work done by
former Walnut Creek / BSDi employees. I've never seen able to make much sense
of the SQL backend. The interface to edit and post articles is clunky (and
I'm not sure the PHP for that even works any more). When I've posted articles
in recent years, I've done so by editing the main page already processed from
PHP into HTML, which is pretty darn messy as I'm sure you can imagine. I tend
to prioritize the distribution itself over other demands on my time - that's
clearly a lot to do with how things ended up the way they did.
So, I guess that's the report for now. Lots more work to do and not enough
time to do it in... that part I don't see changing moving forward. :)
Thanks very much again. I'll do my best to keep you all posted.
- Pat
a/file-5.34-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-firmware-20180727_b01151b-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-4.14.58-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.14.58-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.14.58-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/gcc-8.2.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/gcc-brig-8.2.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/gcc-g++-8.2.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/gcc-gfortran-8.2.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/gcc-gnat-8.2.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/gcc-go-8.2.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/gcc-objc-8.2.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-4.14.58-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/libtool-2.4.6-x86_64-9.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled to update embedded GCC version number.
k/kernel-source-4.14.58-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
CRASH_DUMP n -> y
KEXEC n -> y
+KEXEC_JUMP y
+PROC_VMCORE y
l/babl-0.1.54-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/gegl-0.4.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libart_lgpl-2.3.21-x86_64-2.txz: Removed.
This actually hasn't been needed by any Slackware package since koffice in
KDE3, and this particular version won't work with the Trinity Desktop
Environment, which is essentially a fork of KDE 3.5 updated to compile and
run with modern libraries and development tools. I can't see much point in
keeping it around. Thanks to _gin.
n/NetworkManager-1.12.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/dhcpcd-7.0.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/libinput-1.11.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.9.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
a/pkgtools-15.0-noarch-13.txz: Rebuilt.
installpkg: default line length for --terselength is the number of columns.
removepkg: added --terse mode.
upgradepkg: default line length for --terselength is the number of columns.
upgradepkg: accept -option in addition to --option.
ap/vim-8.1.0026-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/bison-3.0.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
e/emacs-26.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
kde/kopete-4.14.3-x86_64-8.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against libidn-1.35.
n/conntrack-tools-1.4.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/libnetfilter_conntrack-1.0.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/libnftnl-1.1.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/links-2.16-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Rebuilt to enable X driver for -g mode.
n/lynx-2.8.9dev.19-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/nftables-0.8.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/p11-kit-0.23.11-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/ulogd-2.0.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/whois-5.3.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/network-manager-applet-1.8.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/vim-gvim-8.1.0026-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Thu Jun 30 20:26:57 UTC 2016
Slackware 14.2 x86_64 stable is released!
The long development cycle (the Linux community has lately been living in
"interesting times", as they say) is finally behind us, and we're proud to
announce the release of Slackware 14.2. The new release brings many updates
and modern tools, has switched from udev to eudev (no systemd), and adds
well over a hundred new packages to the system. Thanks to the team, the
upstream developers, the dedicated Slackware community, and everyone else
who pitched in to help make this release a reality.
The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided
32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. Please consider supporting the Slackware
project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com. We're taking
pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription.
Have fun! :-)
Mon Nov 4 17:08:47 UTC 2013
Slackware 14.1 x86_64 stable is released!
It's been another interesting release cycle here at Slackware bringing
new features like support for UEFI machines, updated compilers and
development tools, the switch from MySQL to MariaDB, and many more
improvements throughout the system. Thanks to the team, the upstream
developers, the dedicated Slackware community, and everyone else who
pitched in to help make this release a reality.
The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a
dual-sided
32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. Please consider supporting the Slackware
project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com. We're taking
pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription.
Have fun! :-)
