Changelog has Changed

Michael Black

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Feb 1, 2012, 11:19:04 PM2/1/12

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So the new month brings new updates to the changelog, finally for those
who were posting to wonder what happened. 10 lynx pages of updates, after
six weeks. Even some hint at things going wrong, sounding like things
just lined up together at the wrong time.

And I seem to recall someone wishing for a GCC update, it's now at 4.6.2

Michael

Auric__

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Feb 2, 2012, 8:35:55 AM2/2/12

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Vacation's over, it seems.

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Dan C

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Feb 2, 2012, 9:15:00 AM2/2/12

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That's good news. Probably time to start wondering when 14.0 will be
out... :)

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Michael Black

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Feb 2, 2012, 9:52:00 AM2/2/12

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On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Dan C wrote:

> On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:19:04 -0500, Michael Black wrote:
>
>> So the new month brings new updates to the changelog, finally for those
>> who were posting to wonder what happened. 10 lynx pages of updates,
>> after six weeks. Even some hint at things going wrong, sounding like
>> things just lined up together at the wrong time.
>>
>> And I seem to recall someone wishing for a GCC update, it's now at 4.6.2
>>
>> Michael
>
> That's good news. Probably time to start wondering when 14.0 will be
> out... :)
>

I almost said it is almost time for more Fun and Games. But probably
premature. On the other hand, it is under 3 months now since 13.37 was
released, April 25th. A year isn't uncommon between releases, but the
stretch doesn't tend to be much longer than a year.

Michael

wcth

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Feb 2, 2012, 10:04:31 AM2/2/12

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Very good. Installation completed without any problem.
It would also be good to have gtk-3.

Ralph Spitzner

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Feb 2, 2012, 10:27:39 AM2/2/12

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Dan C wrote:

>
> That's good news. Probably time to start wondering when 14.0 will be
> out... :)
>
>

Probably not 14.0 but |-|347 :-P

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Kees Theunissen

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Feb 2, 2012, 11:04:15 AM2/2/12

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Dan C wrote:

> That's good news. Probably time to start wondering when 14.0 will be
> out... :)

If the kernel version is going to be used in the slackware relaese
number (like in Slackware 13.37 with kernel 2.6.37.6) then I would
expect Slackware 14.2 as it has currently kernel 3.2.2. It has to be
a 14.x release because 13.2 is extremely unlikely after 13.37.

Regards,

Kees.

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Danno

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Feb 2, 2012, 1:05:01 PM2/2/12

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On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:27:39 +0100
Ralph Spitzner <ra...@spitzner.org> wrote:

> Dan C wrote:
>
> >
> > That's good news. Probably time to start wondering when 14.0 will be
> > out... :)
>
> Probably not 14.0 but |-|347 :-P
>
> -rasp

I'm guessing a 1-CD version "Slackware 13.55", before the full
bells-and-whistles release.

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John K. Herreshoff

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Feb 2, 2012, 1:25:12 PM2/2/12

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It would need gtk+-2 and gtk+-3... gimp is running on gtk+-2 until gimp-3.x
comes out...

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Martin

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Feb 2, 2012, 2:10:30 PM2/2/12

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Dan C wrote:

> That's good news. Probably time to start wondering when 14.0 will be
> out... :)

I would expect some major updates of xorg, KDE, XFCE and their dependencies
before that happens, plus a period of maturing.

Michael Black

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Feb 2, 2012, 2:43:05 PM2/2/12

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Then what's the state of those things? If they've changed significantly
already, then it's just a matter of incorporating them. If they are about
to change significantly, Slackware may wait for their release, though in
some cases it may wait for its next release before incorporating major
changes.

I have the impression it's not all whim, within some range what gets in a
new release depends on what's available, but there maybe seems to be some
vague target to include in the next release, which then impacts when the
next release comes.

Michael

Robert Komar

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Feb 2, 2012, 4:40:37 PM2/2/12

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Kees Theunissen <theu...@rijnh.nl> wrote:
>
> If the kernel version is going to be used in the slackware relaese
> number (like in Slackware 13.37 with kernel 2.6.37.6) then I would
> expect Slackware 14.2 as it has currently kernel 3.2.2. It has to be
> a 14.x release because 13.2 is extremely unlikely after 13.37.

I'm guessing that "13.37" was a fun reference to that release being
'leet', rather than what kernel was being used.

It's good that the official kernel has leapt forward to a version
that is being actively maintained.

Cheers,
Rob Komar

Michael Black

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Feb 2, 2012, 6:50:52 PM2/2/12

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On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Robert Komar wrote:

> Kees Theunissen <theu...@rijnh.nl> wrote:
>>
>> If the kernel version is going to be used in the slackware relaese
>> number (like in Slackware 13.37 with kernel 2.6.37.6) then I would
>> expect Slackware 14.2 as it has currently kernel 3.2.2. It has to be
>> a 14.x release because 13.2 is extremely unlikely after 13.37.
>
> I'm guessing that "13.37" was a fun reference to that release being
> 'leet', rather than what kernel was being used.
>

I think the changelog even mentioned that, I don't think it was just
comments in this newsgroup that spelled it out for me.

I didn't think there ever was an attempt to match release numbers with the
kernel number. Even the jump from 4 to 7 was just to match the hype of
the other distributions.

I used 7.0 when I first used Linux/Slackware, though admittedly it was
mildy old by then, back in 2001. It's hard to believe it's actually up to
almost 14 now, and now Big Leap Forwards this time.

Michael