Slackware 9.1 released [LWN.net]

From:		John Jenkins <mrgoblin@dunedin.lug.net.nz>
To:		mrgoblin@dunedin.lug.net.nz
Subject:		Slackware Changelog Notice!!
Date:		Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:50:12 +1200


        	Slackware-current ChangeLog Notice.

    The following additions have been made to The ChangeLog.txt

Please consider using a mirror rather than ftp.slackware.com
By using a mirror from one of the lists below it should decrease 
the load on the primary server and allow the mirrors to sync faster.

     http://www.abnormalpenguin.com/slackware-mirrors.php

   http://alphageek.dyndns.org/linux/slackware-mirrors.shtml

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Thu Sep 25 07:00:08 PDT 2003
Slackware 9.1 is released.  Enjoy!
+--------------------------+

       Yes Slackware 9.1 is now officially released.

This is another great release, featuring GCC 3.2.3, GNOME 2.4.0,
KDE 3.1.4, and Kernel 2.4.22.
Check http://www.slackware.com/announce/9.1.php for the full feature list.

Note that ftp.slackware.com will not allow ISO downloads starting
with this release; instead, the first distribution of the ISOs will
be via BitTorrent.  The .torrents are available http://slackware.com/torrents/

Go get it!!

(Log in to post comments)

Slackware 9.1 released

Posted Sep 30, 2003 13:15 UTC (Tue) by AAP (guest, #721) [Link]

Me too! Swaret rules!

Slackware 9.1 released

Posted Sep 30, 2003 10:19 UTC (Tue) by the_JinX (guest, #3953) [Link]

Well I'm free from work thursday and friday..

So that will be update day..

I'm thinking about a fresh install this time..
There's so much crap on my small 10Gb partition as it is..

the specs sound realy good.. just hope the new GCC 3.2.3 won't be too strict for most of my code..

Slackware 9.1 released

Posted Sep 30, 2003 14:33 UTC (Tue) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

Here's a few things I noticed in the 9.1 release (having been running it as -current for a long time):

If you use the web interface for CUPS, the HTML files necessary have been moved to /usr/doc/cups instead of /usr/share/doc/cups; you can either move them back or change the definition of DocumentRoot in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
If you use CUPS, remove the lprng package; they don't seem to like each other. YMMV.
This isn't specific to the 9.1 release or to Slackware even, but just a tip: I like to set up X by letting it look around and make itself a file: X -configure does the trick nicely. It generates an XF86Config.new file, which you can then tweak to fit your situation and copy into /etc/X11/XF86Config. I've only had to make a few adjustments to mine (font paths, monitor specs, modeline, and swapping "freetype" for "Type1" in the module loading section). Again, your mileage may vary.
You can add fonts (TrueType, PS Type 1, etc.) on a per-user basis by putting them in ~/.fonts and running mkfontscale in that directory; this will make them available to the fontconfig/freetype/etc. libraries for Gnome/KDE. Also make sure (via a login script or whatever) that they are made available to X itself via xset +fp path commands, followed by an xset fp rehash. Finish with a nice Merlot and some expensive cheese. :-)
Don't try to compile Mozilla from source with GCC 3.2.3 and Pentium4 optimizations (such as -O2 -march=pentium4). You'll receive a nice spectacular internal compiler error when compiling some of the JavaScript code. Use -march=i686 or other similar options.