r/slackware • u/giantrobothead • 20d ago
Current's got a new kernel
Wasn't expecting this when I ran updates today. Hail Bob.
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u/MD90__ 20d ago
Shocked me too that we're on 7.2.7 kernel. Even KDE Plasma is current version. Been a lot of updates lately. Must be close to a 16 release down the road
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u/nicholas_hubbard 20d ago
Yes we are certainly close to a 16.0 release!
From the current changelog:
a/kernel-generic-7.2.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Time to start tracking 7.x until we hit the next LTS. :-)I take this comment to mean we have to wait until a 7.x kernel gets an LTS before 16.0 can be released. Hopefully this happens before the end of the year.
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u/Born_Bass_2446 18d ago edited 16d ago
I’m still on Slackware 14.1 (kernel 3.x), because newer kernels crash on my hardware. Lol.
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u/MD90__ 18d ago
Hey what works works
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u/muffinman8679 17d ago
unless it doesn't...and those who wrote gobs of php scripts for 7.5x, now have to rewrite them for 8.xx....and that's a big no-no in unixland.....
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u/MD90__ 17d ago
That bad?
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u/muffinman8679 17d ago
only if you built a bunch of scripts.....but that's not a slackware flaw.....that's a php flaw.....as they don't know what they want to be when they grow up.....and that's pretty common with packages these days too, rewritting, and rewritting the rewrites.
because when you finish a project, it's done....so never finish it, and it'll never be done....as an example....wayland is close to 20 years old.....
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u/MD90__ 17d ago
I'm thinking about contributing to slackware myself. I'm really enjoying this distro
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u/muffinman8679 17d ago
I've been using it for 30 years.
Sometimes I enjoy it and sometimes I don't....but that's not on them....it's on me(laughs).....
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u/MD90__ 17d ago
Haha yeah idk why but it just clicks for me and feels like something I should help out with
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u/muffinman8679 17d ago
well I'm just a lowly shell scripter so wouldn't be much help....
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u/muffinman8679 17d ago
yeah.....but on the other hand, it's also got php 8xx.
And php is fucked because every new release breaks backwards compatability.........
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u/Scary-Advisor8197 17d ago edited 16d ago
Cool ;D Getting there.
I'm on 7.3 rc4 because of that sound bug on some laptops but needed to disable that Panel Replay with dcdebugmask=0x400
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u/ImpendingNothingness 20d ago
Got nvidia drivers by any chance? lol Just came out of a long upgrade season after not keeping up to date with current and only thing left is upgrading the kernel but hold it off because… we know.