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Slackware 13.0 releasedSlackware 13.0 releasedPosted Aug 28, 2009 13:06 UTC (Fri) by xav (guest, #18536)Parent article: Slackware 13.0 released
I can't believe there are still Linux distros advertising a 64bits port, in 2009 ...
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Slackware 13.0 released Posted Aug 28, 2009 14:31 UTC (Fri) by Camarade_Tux (guest, #51944) [Link]
Not exactly: it's advertising an *official* 64-bit port.
Slamd64 had its first release more than four years ago, on January 2005.
Slackware 13.0 released Posted Aug 28, 2009 15:31 UTC (Fri) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022) [Link]
Slackware gets to be less of a cottage industry every day, but only by becoming better-integrated with its community as a means of support. If the hardware were binary incompatible, this port might have been forced sooner, and being 32-bit only would have been a problem. But then, binary incompatibility kills 64-bit desktop processor options anyways. The fact that this port can be not only brought under the same "roof" as the 32-bit Slackware, but also synchronized so that both can be maintained as Slackware going forward, is a big deal when you don't have corporate backing.
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