Slackware 14 released [LWN.net]

Slackware 14 released

Posted Sep 30, 2012 16:42 UTC (Sun) by burdi01 (guest, #65371)
In reply to: Slackware 14 released by Camarade_Tux
Parent article: Slackware 14 released

"NEVER MIX BINARIES FROM DIFFERENT VERSIONS (OF SLACKWARE)". *Most* of the time this rule of thumb is simply not true. You may have to carry forward some libraries, but that is all there is to it.

Actually the last KDE 3 (3.5.10) was for 12.2, and I have been carrying forward that version for quite some time. I think that missing hal will be the stumbling block for running that version for 14.0.

At the moment I run Trinity 3.5.13 on Current (which at the moment is identical to 14.0). There are some glitches, but nothing fatal.

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Slackware 14 released

Posted Sep 30, 2012 18:25 UTC (Sun) by blackbelt_jones (guest, #62623) [Link]

>>Actually the last KDE 3 (3.5.10) was for 12.2,

Well, no, there's this:

http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackware/unsupported/kde-3....

Thanks for the tip.

Slackware 14 released

Posted Sep 30, 2012 18:45 UTC (Sun) by blackbelt_jones (guest, #62623) [Link]

I had some problems last time I tried Trinity.

(sigh) Hello, XFCE.

Slackware 14 released

Posted Sep 30, 2012 19:17 UTC (Sun) by Camarade_Tux (guest, #51944) [Link]

Differences of semantics. :-)

What we usually say is: do not mix. Of course, stuff like xlander hasn't been recompiled recently and yet it works well. But for packages that have changed, don't attempt to take one from version X of the distribution and use it on version Y. Don't attempt to do backports.