Posted by: Carlos A. Morales
on May 20 2009
Well, this is a surprise for me! one of the oldest Linux Distributions (which is also my favorite): Slackware, is getting ready to have a X86_64 (aka amd64) version at their next release, currently the 64bit version is available only at the Slackware-current branch and not intended for production use of course.
This version will be multilib which means it will include 32 and 64 bits version of the libraries, contrary to the polemic Bluewhite64 Slackware port which only uses 64 bit libraries.
Posted by: Nicholas Levandoski
on May 14 2009
Awesome!! So I finally started a Linux blog. The goal here is to promote Linux through use, projects, and general discussion.
Ive been using Linux for about 3 years solid (5 off and on). It really hit me when I started Linux From Scratch (on the 6th attempt). From there I switched to Ubuntu (and some of its off shoots like LinuxMint) and dabbled in Fedora. I got bored over a weekend and started messing with Slackware recently.
Posted by: Mac Wisler
on May 13 2009
I think I performed my first Linux install in 1995. I know it was done using the slackware distribution. It took about 35 floppy disks which I downloaded at the University of Kansas Herb Harris Computer Lab. I installed on my only computer which was a 386sx with probably a 20 megabyte hard drive and about 8 megabytes of RAM. I'm pretty sure it was only 8MB because I remember thinking that if I had 16MB then I could run X Windows.
Posted by: mfillpot
on May 10 2009
From the Slackware-Current Changelog:
Fri May 8 18:49:03 CDT 2009
Hello folks! This batch of updates includes the newly released KDE 4.2.3,
but more noticeably it marks the first departure from the use of gzip for
compressing Slackware packages. Instead, we will be using xz, based on
the LZMA compression algorithm. xz offers better compression than even
bzip2, but still offers good extraction performance (about 3 times better
than bzip2 and not much slower than gzip in our testing). Since support
for bzip2 has long been requested, support for bzip2 and the original lzma
format has also been added (why not?), but this is purely in the interest
of completeness -- we think most people will probably want to use either
the original .tgz or the new .txz compression wrappers. The actual
Slackware package format (which consists of the layout within the package
envelope) has not changed, but this is the first support within Slackware's
package tools for using alternate compression algorithms.
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