its finally out! the new stable 13.37 was released a few hours ago. heres a link to the distrowatch article: http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06641

and heres a link to the slackware site! http://www.slackware.com/

for those that don't know:

distrowatch Wrote:Slackware Linux 13.37, a new version of the world's oldest surviving Linux-based operating system, has been released: "It's true! Slackware 13.37 has been released. Nearly a year in the making, you will appreciate the performance and stability that can only come with careful and rigorous testing. Slackware 13.37 uses the 2.6.37.6 Linux kernel and also ships with 2.6.38.4 kernels for those who want to run the latest. The long-awaited Firefox 4.0 web browser is included, the X Window System has been upgraded (and includes the open source nouveau driver for NVIDIA cards). The venerable Slackware installer has been improved as well, with support for installing to btrfs, a one-package-per-line display mode option, and an easy to set-up PXE install server that runs right off the DVD!" For full details please read the release announcement.

Wow?

i don't bother with upgrades anymore, as i run -current instead. it essentially turns slackware into a rock-stable rolling release system. but ill be seeding the 13.37 downloads at least until the next full release.

if anyone decides to install it and needs help, a good place to start would be my thread here: http://endlessparadigm.com/forum/showthr...?tid=25677

if that fails, you can always pm me.

(27/04/2011 09:53 PM)shakan09 Wrote:  what are the differences between this and ubuntu??

:|

(27/04/2011 09:53 PM)shakan09 Wrote:  what are the differences between this and ubuntu??

not sure if troll or not...

a lot of difference between this and ubuntu. slackware is a much more involved distribution, taking a fair amount of either time or knowledge of linux to get working and running. it does not have a package management system in the way that ubuntu or fedora have a package manager, and instead you compile all your applications from source, keeping track of your dependencies manually. slackware is usually known for being extremely stable, and extremely simple (as in the bare-bones meaning of the word).

an old saying goes "if you learn Red Hat, youll know Red Hat. if you learn Slackware, youll learn Linux."
this a great saying, one of my absolute favorites. just about every package in slackware comes directly unaltered from the developers of the software, with little to no upstream editing. that means that the kde in slackware is the exact same kde youd get if you downloaded and build kde manually. in this way, slackware sets itself apart from most distributions (ubuntu especially) which do a lot of upstream editing (ever use gnome in ubuntu vs gnome in fedora? very different animals). this makes a lot of software issues easier for fixes, as slackware users can often go straight to the developers of the application themselves for a bug fix, without having to worry about the possibility of an upstream edit causing a bug, unrelated to the software's source code.

in slackware, as opposed to ubuntu, just about every administrative task MUST be done from the command line. this includes making your own user account (there is no wizard to do this for you in the install, you have to set it up yourself from the CLI) any software you want to install has to be installed from the command line (there is no synaptic) and nearly all system settings are changed by direct editing of text files, not the use of a GUI wizard (the exception of course are the applications that the desktop environment includes to manage its own settings).


slackware is not for someone who doesn't want to gain an in-depth understanding of linux. it is also not for someone who wants to have their computer do all the work for them. slackware is for experienced users, or unexperienced users who want to put in the effort to become true linux power users. many people install slackware, get confused because everything has to be done from the command line at first, and then complain about it and knock it for years to come. this is not slackware's fault. its their fault for not understanding what they were using.

no problem. that's what i do :p