The first Slackware 9.0 release candidate [LWN.net]

As announced on the Slackware site, the first release candidate for Slackware 9.0 is available. Features in this release include a 2.4.20 kernel, KDE 3.1, GNOME 2.2, XFree86 4.3.0, and more. The changelog has the details in an exhaustive, tiny-font format.

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The first Slackware 9.0 release candidate

Posted Mar 5, 2003 4:38 UTC (Wed) by busterb (subscriber, #560) [Link]

I know this might sound odd, but I just installed this on a Toshiba Portege.
Every device in the laptop except for the Winmodem, just worked. And this is
Slackware, which is not known exactly for holding your hand! I am very
impressed.

It took a little more tweaking to get the modem working (had to download a
binary driver) and the video running full-speed (it defaulted to VESA), but the
machine was very usable from the beginning. Great job.