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Slackware Linux

[Posted April 28, 2004 by ris]

Many KDE packages have been upgraded this week, along with joe, gaim, slacktrack, syslinux, automake, and several other packages. Updated 2.4.26 kernels with security fixes are available for slackware-stable and slackware-current. GCC 3.4.0 has landed in testing. As always, check the slackware-current changelog for complete details.

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KDE and X

Posted Apr 29, 2004 3:41 UTC (Thu) by Alan_Hicks (subscriber, #20469) [Link]

A few users have reported problems using KDE with XFree86. These problems seem to stem from
KDE being compiled against X.org and not against XFree86. Pat wanted to see if that would
cause problems for people, and it looks like it has. Thus, Slackware will almost definately ship
with X.org's X11R6-7.

Slackware Linux

Posted Apr 29, 2004 13:07 UTC (Thu) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link]

When will Kernel 2.6.x enter Slackware ?
... will probably become Slackware 10 I guess :-)

Alex

Slackware Linux

Posted Apr 29, 2004 15:20 UTC (Thu) by Alan_Hicks (subscriber, #20469) [Link]

It's already there in /extra. Likely Slackware 9.2 (or maybe 10.0, we'll see) will ship with 2.6.X as
an optional kernel with 2.4.26 as the reccomended kernel. Pat did the same thing with Slackware
8.0 back in the day if you recall.

If Slackware ships 2.6.x and X11R6-7 as the default X implimentation, it may very well be
released as 10.0, since X applications compiled against X11R6-7 seem to have some trouble with
XFree86, so the packages may not be backwards compatable.