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Mon Apr 25 13:37:00 UTC 2011 Slackware 13.37 x86_64 stable is released! Thanks to everyone who pitched in on this release: the Slackware team, the folks producing upstream code, and linuxquestions.org for providing a great forum for collaboration and testing. 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. As always, thanks to the Slackware community for testing, suggestions, and feedback. :-) Have fun!
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Slackware 13.37 release notes. Mon Apr 25 02:43:57 UTC 2011
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Hi folks,
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Historically, the RELEASE_NOTES had been mostly technical
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information, but once again Robby Workman has covered the important
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technical details in CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT. Thanks!
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I'll mention a few technical items here. Slackware's userspace does
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require a recent 2.6.x kernel (I believe 2.6.27.x is a minimum for
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udev), and as usual unless your needs are specific you're probably
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better off running the included kernels that we've tested things
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against. The best kernel to run (even on a one CPU/core machine) is the
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generic SMP one, but that needs an initrd, so be sure to read the
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instructions in /boot after installing with a huge* kernel if you plan
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to switch. We have chosen to use the 2.6.37.6 kernel after testing the
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2.6.37.x kernel branch extensively (and because there are still a few
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things that work in 2.6.37.x but not in 2.6.38.x). But, for those who
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would like to run the latest kernel, there are 2.6.38.4 kernels included
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in /testing. Also in the /testing/source/ directory you'll find config
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files for two other kernel versions, 2.6.35.12 (which is a longterm
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supported branch), and 2.6.39-rc4, a release candidate for
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the next major kernel series.
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Slackware 13.37 contains updated versions of both KDE and Xfce, but
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if you prefer GNOME then you'll be pleased with the work that the
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GNOME SlackBuild (GSB) team is doing producing a full-featured GNOME
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desktop for Slackware:
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http://gnomeslackbuild.org
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Need more build scripts? Something that you wanted wasn't included
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in Slackware? Well, then check out slackbuilds.org. Several of the team
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members work on the scripts there.
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Thanks to the rest of the team (and other contributors) for the
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great help -- Eric Hameleers for major work on the KDE SC packages, init
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scripts, installer, documentation, and all the extra packages like
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multilib compilers (read more here: http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/),
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Robby Workman for following X.Org, udev, wicd, xfce, and tons of other
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projects, building and testing all that stuff, writing documentation,
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his work with the team at slackbuilds.org, and lots of package upgrades
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(like the switch to the bluez4 bluetooth stack), Piter Punk for udev and
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slackpkg work, Stuart Winter for more updates to linuxdoc-tools, slacktrack,
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and for all kinds of fixes throughout the installer and system (he finds my
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bugs all the time while porting packages to ARM for the ARMedslack port:
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http://www.armedslack.org/), Alan Hicks for testing the installer on Apple
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hardware, Vincent Batts for keeping Ruby working well (difficult!) and other
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miscellaneous fixes, Heinz Wiesinger for PHP (and other) fixes,
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Amritpal Bath for various bugfixes and helping with release torrents,
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mrgoblin for testing RAID, bluetooth, and well, everything (and fixing a
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lot of it, too), other very honorable mentions go to Erik Jan Tromp,
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Mark Post, Karl Magnus Kolstoe, Fred Emmott, and NetrixTardis,
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and anyone else I'm forgetting (including the other team members who
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contributed little fixes and suggestions here and there along with
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general moral support), and all the folks who emailed in bug reports
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(and especially fixes). Thanks for the technical assistance (*you* make
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this possible), and for keeping the project a good time. And, of
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course, thanks *much* to the upstream developers for such nice building
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materials. As always, thanks to my wife Andrea and daughter Briah.
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Have fun!
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Pat Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>
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