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
Maybe I should clarify myself. By "default," I meant that Slackware, if you choose KDE, now uses KDE4 instead of KDE3. Xfce is good, and if it comes down to it I might just end up using that if I move back to Slack. I just have some serious doubts of KDE4 running well at all on my machine.
I've tried compiling various small programs; some worked, and some didn't, usually because of dependencies. The last thing I would want to do is compile an entire desktop environment. In fact, the last time I did it was actually Xfce, with their fancy GUI "installer" and all. Even after installing a bunch of dependencies, I got nowhere. What fun.
Agreed, but assuming a typical user is used to running KDE3 in Slackware... it seems that either they're going to have to pack their bags and switch window managers, or hope they've got the resources to run its successor.