Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 11:38 UTC, submitted by Witek Wasilewski
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."
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2006-12-05
I'm kind of nervous about the next Slackware, given that it uses KDE4 by default. These days, I'm sure the bugs in the 4 series are mostly minimal, so that's not really my concern, but another problem remains. KDE4 is a *monster* on system resources and in my experience hogs up a lot of memory. Basically, to the point where it's not even usable as an installed OS, let alone a live CD which (by its nature) is heavier. With 256MB of memory, you might as well not even bother with it--that's been my experience. However, Slackware has always tried to be as simple as possible, which leads to its tendency to feel lightweight and fast compared to others. Has anyone tried KDE4 in Slackware vs. KDE4 in, say, Kubuntu/Pardus/etc.?