http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:50:57 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/26421/Slackware_14_0_released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26421/Slackware_14_0_released/ "Slackware 14.0 brings many updates and enhancements, among which you'll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: Xfce 4.10.0, a fast and lightweight but visually appealing and easy to use desktop environment, and KDE 4.8.5, a recent stable release of the 4.8.x series of the award-winning KDE desktop environment. [...] Slackware uses the 3.2.29 kernel bringing you advanced performance features such as journaling filesystems, SCSI and ATA RAID volume support, SATA support, Software RAID, LVM (the Logical Volume Manager), and encrypted filesystems. Kernel support for X DRI (the Direct Rendering Interface) brings high-speed hardware accelerated 3D graphics to Linux." Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:13:03 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Slackware, Slax 27 http://www.osnews.com/topics/66 News Beket_ http://www.osnews.com/story/26052/Interview_Patrick_Volkerding_founder_of_Slackware/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26052/Interview_Patrick_Volkerding_founder_of_Slackware/ LinuxQuestions.org has an in-depth interview with Patrick Volkerding. "The goal back when the project was started was to make it easy, and to keep things simple. But to paraphrase Einstein, you want to make things as simple as possible, but not simpler. There's a point of diminishing return when adding additional layers and interfaces, especially when it comes to system configuration. I've seen automated configuration do things like strip out all the comments in a config file, or worse just completely rewrite the thing because you had the nerve to try editing it outside of the approved system. And I do feel like Slackware has been shafted in some of the reviews over the years, largely because there's a tendency to review only the installer and not the system itself. There is certainly a learning curve, but that's true for all versions of Linux. We've never tried to make things hard, but perhaps we also haven't tried to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot. Things like aliasing rm to 'rm -i' don't help the user learn to be careful." Patrick gets it. Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:55:42 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Slackware, Slax 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/66 News Jeremy http://www.osnews.com/story/25576/Parabola_GNU_Linux_Freedom_Packaged/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25576/Parabola_GNU_Linux_Freedom_Packaged/ There are different reasons people use Unix-like operating systems, including configurable, availability free of charge, powerful command line interface an many more. Some people are motivated by the moral issue: they reject non-free software. Specifically for such users Free Software Foundation developed Guidelines for Free System Distributions and created the list of absolutely free ("as in freedom") distributions. In this article we are going to look at the most recent entry on the list - Parabola GNU/Linux. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:22:16 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Slackware, Slax 76 http://www.osnews.com/topics/66 Feature ddc_ http://www.osnews.com/story/23353/Slackware_13_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23353/Slackware_13_1_Released/ Pat Volkerding has released Slackware 13.1. "We have chosen to use the 2.6.33.4 kernel after testing the 2.6.33.x kernel branch extensively. Slackware 13.1 contains version 4.4.3 of the KDE Software Compilation. Several Xfce components have been updated as well. Xfce continues to be a great lightweight desktop that doesn't get in your way. If you haven't looked at this great desktop environment lately, you might want to give it another try. If you prefer GNOME, there are teams online producing GNOME for Slackware." Tue, 25 May 2010 17:22:20 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Slackware, Slax 35 http://www.osnews.com/topics/66 News leonardoav http://www.osnews.com/story/22074/Slackware_13_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22074/Slackware_13_0_Released/ Among OSNews readers, Slackware is a surprisingly popular choice when it comes to Linux distributions. A new release came out today, Slackware 13, which comes packed with improvements, and even a whole new port. Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:59:30 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Slackware, Slax 32 http://www.osnews.com/topics/66 News Witek Wasilewski http://www.osnews.com/story/21764/Slackware_13_0_RC1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21764/Slackware_13_0_RC1_Released/ Slackware 13.0 RC1 has been released. Or tagged. Or whatever you'd call it in the Slackware world. "The TODO isn't entirely empty here, but it's pretty much down to minor nits, and so we're going to call this release candidate #1 and (mostly) freeze further updates unless they happen to fix problems. Regarding the kernel, 2.6.29.x has been well tested with this userspace and seems like the best choice to ship for production use. Perhaps we can put something else (at least source and configs) in /testing, though." Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:38:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Slackware, Slax 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/66 News Witek Wasilewski http://www.osnews.com/story/21524/Slackware_Goes_64Bit/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21524/Slackware_Goes_64Bit/ Yes, yes, Slackware has gone 64bit. "Ready or not, Slackware has now gone 64-bit with an official x86_64 port being maintained in-sync with the regular x86 -current branch. DVDs will be available for purchase from the Slackware store when Slackware 13.0 is released. Many thanks go out to the Slackware team for their help with this branch and a special thank you to Eric Hameleers who did the real heavy lifting re-compiling everything for this architecture, testing, re-testing, and staying in-sync with -current." Wed, 20 May 2009 14:56:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Slackware, Slax 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/66 News hitest http://www.osnews.com/story/21117/Zenwalk_6_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21117/Zenwalk_6_0_Released/ The official release of Zenwalk 6.0, based off of Slackware, was recently posted at the Zenwalk website, detailing the vastest of all changelogs in the entire history of the project including an upgrade to the latest and greatest Xfce release and an updated kernel. Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:00:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jordan Spencer Cunningham) Slackware, Slax 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/66 News DoctorPepper http://www.osnews.com/story/21018/VectorLinux_6_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21018/VectorLinux_6_0_Released/ VectorLinux 6.0 has been released. "The final release of VectorLinux 6.0 (code name 'Voyager') is now available. This release is a major milestone in the ten year history of Vectorlinux. With the unbridled enthusiasm of a community gone wild, we have forged our very own stable GUI installer and our repository now hosts over a thousand packages. VectorLinux is the fastest Linux desktop in it's class. We have exceeded our original goals of VectorLinux 6.0 and produced a beautiful, full featured stable desktop for a rocket fueled experience. The main desktop is based on Xfce-4.4.3 with a custom theme and artwork again unique to VectorLinux. LXDE is installed as a secondary desktop option. Much work has been done on localization and we know users from all over the globe will find VectorLinux a stellar experience." Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:59:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Slackware, Slax 23 http://www.osnews.com/topics/66 News Robert Lange http://www.osnews.com/story/20634/Slackware_12_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20634/Slackware_12_2_Released/ Slackware, the grand daddy of Linux distributions, has released a new version: Slackware 12.2. This new version runs the 2.6.27.7 version of the Linux kernel. The other updates include Xfce 4.4.3, KDE 3.5.10, HAL support etc. You can get Slackware 12.2 from one of their mirrors. Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:15:32 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Slackware, Slax 18 http://www.osnews.com/topics/66 News Brian http://www.osnews.com/story/20368/Review_Slackware_12_1/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20368/Review_Slackware_12_1/ "Slackware remains Slackware. It's been around for a very long time and it has a very loyal following. It's an excellent choice for the Linux hobbyist who wants to build, configure, and tweak their system to the nth degree. Slackware certainly gives you absolute control over your system. Nothing is made to be easy or user friendly", writes Caitlyn Martin. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:12:35 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli) Slackware, Slax 28 http://www.osnews.com/topics/66 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19708/Slackware_12_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19708/Slackware_12_1_Released/ One of the oldest Linux distributions, Slackware, has pushed out another release. "Well folks, it's that time to announce a new stable Slackware release again. So, without further ado, announcing Slackware version 12.1! Since we've moved to supporting the 2.6 kernel series exclusively (and fine-tuned the system to get the most out of it), we feel that Slackware 12.1 has many improvements over our last release (Slackware 12.0) and is a must-have upgrade for any Slackware user." Sat, 03 May 2008 05:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Slackware, Slax 42 http://www.osnews.com/topics/66 News ZacharyM http://www.osnews.com/story/19575/Slackware_12_1_RC1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19575/Slackware_12_1_RC1_Released/ And Slackware too puts out a test release. Patrick writes in the changelog: "OK, we're going to call this Slackware 12.1-rc1, though there is still some more minor work to do." So there. Just so you know. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:30:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Slackware, Slax 19 http://www.osnews.com/topics/66 News http://www.osnews.com/story/18221/Slackware_12_Notes_and_Hints/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18221/Slackware_12_Notes_and_Hints/ Here is an interesting "take a note" kind of article about the newly released Slackware Linux 12. Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:01:33 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli) Slackware, Slax 27 http://www.osnews.com/topics/66 News Alain Reyes http://www.osnews.com/story/18184/Slackware_12_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18184/Slackware_12_0_Released/ Patrick Volkerding has released Slackware 12.0. From the changelog: "Released as Slackware 12.0 with no changes since the last batch. Big Thanks again are due to the CREW, without whom this just wouldn't be possible to do with the level of quality that Slackware users demand. We had a lot of help this time, and I hope it shows in project output that you'll enjoy. Thanks for the support of the Slackware community, because without your support I wouldn't be able to keep leading this project." Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:23:16 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Slackware, Slax 35 http://www.osnews.com/topics/66 News Mattias