Slackware 12.0 Release Candidate 1 [LWN.net]

Slackware 12.0 Release Candidate 1

Posted Jun 18, 2007 4:28 UTC (Mon) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742)
Parent article: Slackware 12.0 Release Candidate 1

So what will be in Slackware 12 ?
From a quick look at the ftp server it will have kernel 2.6.21.5 as
default kernel, gcc 4.1.2 as default compiler, come with cmake 2.4.6,
dbus 1.0.2, shared mimeinfo ?

Whow, this gives a really nice up-to-date development system for KDE4 :-)
Will install it as soon as I find the time...

Alex

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Slackware 12.0 Release Candidate 1

Posted Jun 18, 2007 15:18 UTC (Mon) by Alan_Hicks (subscriber, #20469) [Link]

There's been a lot of changes. In addition to dropping support for 2.4 kernels, updating the entire toolchain, and bringing in all the latest versions of things, a lot of old "kruft" has been dropped. GTK+ 1.x is no longer supported (so things like xmms have been dropped), and we're now using modular X. A lot of packages have been split up (for instance, the old bin package has now been split into a great many different packages, one for each utility that was included) making it easier to trim down a Slackware install. This is somewhat of a nuisance to some one who wants to step through the install and remove only a handful of packages, but should make things a lot easier for people running very minimal systems.

Slackware 12.0 Release Candidate 1

Posted Jun 18, 2007 18:22 UTC (Mon) by beranger (guest, #39167) [Link]

The BIG revolution is not only the dropping of kernel 2.4, the REVOLUTION is *HAL*!

And, of course, HAL-aware KDE (automounting, anyone?). Out of /opt.

The bad thing is that glibc 2.5 makes the binary packages incompatible with 11.0.