After over a year of development including the beta release and several release candidates to get everything polished up were proud to announce the. Slackware, the oldest gnulinux distribution still in active maintenance, was released just minutes ago. Here is a quick howto i wrote for installing and configuring bootsplash on slackware 10. Steam provides the user with installation and automatic updating of games on multiple computers, and community features such as friends lists and groups. This updated version brings many enhancements, including xfce 4. The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune or as we say in sweden. Patch download apk, deb, eopkg, ipk, rpm, tgz, txz, xz. Take a careful look at the list of packages to be removed and if you recognise anything that you want to keep, make a note. Using splashy with slackwar64 current but works in. For example, in the pidgin source directory, you would need the following files. Standard shared libraries from the gnu c library opensuse oss armv7hl official glibc2.
I had to configure them to create the sendmail usergroup and mysql usergroup without replacing the entire etcpasswd and. Install packages in batch stopping in case of errors only. And at the same time we will patch it with the bootsplash patch. We are not going in to details of kernel compilation here, you can find excellent tutorial available out there. Both sides are bootable for easy installation, and includes everything from both releases of slackware 14.
Weve added several new packages for uefi, including elilo, grub 2, and efibootmgr, and all of the installation media supports booting under uefi, as do the usb boot sticks generated during installation. Slackware is the first widelyused linux system, which is still developing. It was really annoying to post 3 messages before posting my tutorial. I seem to get quite a few oopses on system shutdown, and also sometimes when using dri. For people interested in running the latest linux kernel, weve also put configuration files for linux 4. Description new kernel packages are available for slackware 14. Including the latest popular software while retaining a sense of tradition, providing simplicity and ease of use alongside. The new stable release of slackware contains x11r7.
To do this ive restructured the directory layout so that all isos are found under slackware slackware iso after advice from the slackware mirror admin. You still have your stock kernel and entry in lilo to boot into without worries. Latest slackware version doesnt cut newbies any slack. It will also remove any packages that used to be part of the slackware or salix repos in 14. This is just to show an idea to the world that slackware is not all about all text and no fun. Originally based on softlanding linux system, slackware has been the basis for many other linux distributions, most notably the first versions of suse linux distributions, and is the oldest distribution that is still maintained slackware aims for design stability and simplicity and to be the most unixlike. The official release of slackware linux by patrick volkerding is an advanced linux operating system, designed with the twin goals of ease of use and stability as top priorities. Update bash at slackware 11 with the latest patch against shellshock bugs cve20146271 cve20147169 cve20147186 cve20147187 october 1, 2014 dragkh leave a comment go to comments i still have slackware 11 machines so i had to recompile the bash. This is easy to do but there are a few steps to follow. December 26, 2011 installing bootsplash on slackware. Ive visited the homepage and i think its pretty cool. My child loves to see the penguin bootsplash when the computer restarts and the kernel loads.
Its recommended that you switch to slackware s generic kernel. Update bash at slackware 11 with the latest patch against. Slackware is a linux distribution created by patrick volkerding in 1993. If you get any hunk failed messages, then dont use it. Youll need a working patch for the kernel youre using. Synopsis the remote slackware host is missing a security update. Slackware is noted for being the most unixlike of all linux distributions. Following a large number of recent updates, slackware founder and lead developer patrick volkerding finally announced today that the distributions development branch called current had reached beta status. Patrick volkerding has announced the release of slackware linux 14. Linux bootsplash list bootsplashdiscussion archives. Including the latest popular software while retaining a sense of tradition, providing simplicity and ease of use alongside flexibility and power, slackware brings the. If you are using another desktop environment like xfce, you can install the gnome networkmanagerapplet from. Run the script in order to download updated packages from the patches directory of the installed slackware install tree. Slackware is a very fast, stable and reliable linux distribution.
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