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[bones]

"Good hello, let's call this Slackware 14.2 release candidate 1. We still
have a bit of work to do before this is fully ready to go, but we're done
doing every little upgrade that comes along. Well, mostly.
Have a great day, and beannachtai na Feile Padraig oraibh!"

http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386

[archvortex]

^ I run two versions of current, one without bluez, pulseaudio, pamixer, pavucontrol, windowmaker, kde, xfce, blackbox, fvwm2, twm, and use rebuilt alsa-libs and alsa-plugins with asoundrc replacing asound.conf pointing pulse, and one current version with everything and the kitchen sink. Not a fan of the look of Plasma. I usually run Fluxbox with Slack but have at times run a SlackBang. Slackware is my home and comfort zone where I retreat to when I get pissed off with another distro. I make my own SlackBuilds so I can run the version of whatever package I want to add without having to wait for an upgrade or downgrade something because it no longer works on my system.

[bones]

Slackware is my home and comfort zone where I retreat to when I get pissed off with another distro.

This. I feel the same, I always come back to slack. :)

That sounds like a sane approach, much like I tend to do things: a no-X slack for fb/tmux action, and then either fluxbox and/or xfce, but also usually cwm and spectrwm as well. And whatever other window managers I may be experimenting with. Mostly I don't bother with kde any more, although I can still appreciate the work they're doing (compared to Gnome, anyway!).

[wuxmedia]

Just in case nobody has looked recently, last month's DW stats:

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142	CRUX	58
143	SystemRescue	58
144	LinuxBBQ	57=
145	ChaletOS	56=
146	Point	56=
147	GuixSD	55>
148	KANOTIX	55=
149	Metamorphose	55<
150	Edubuntu	54>
151	OpenMediaVault	54=
152	Lunar	53=
153	Musix	53>
154	RebeccaBlackOS   53<

[noo_b_nomnoms]

We're in the top 150! :)

[franksinistra]

Now i don't mean to make fun of other distro, but that last name made me laugh.

[wuxmedia]

^^ yup, have been for the last few months now.

^ yeah - you like that? It's actually quite good 'OS', it had wayland way before anything else that I could remember. :)

[franksinistra]

^ Wow cool, an oxymoron for a name.

[noo_b_nomnoms]

The guy is such a Rebecca Black fan that he named his distro after her...he obviously isn't married because he is still breathing, lols!
But I did check out the site, and did a little studying on the direction Wayland is taking. I thought it was going to be a replacement for X, but as it turns out, X is going to play an integral part in the fully-functioning Wayland that this guy envisions. I will have to dig out the link...brb....

[noo_b_nomnoms]

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html
The Wayland FAQ....duh,me! <8-0

[bones]

OpenBSD 5.9 released (early!):

http://www.openbsd.org/59.html

Upgrade from 5.8 guide:

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade59.html

[wuxmedia]

[lunchtroll]
^ Waita minute - BSD isn't even linux?
FREEDOM HATER!11
[/lunchtroll]

[doubledutch]

Eleven PM, sudo bbqinstalling
Gotta be fresh, wipe the MBR
Gotta have the swap, gotta have coffee
Seein' everything, the shit is copyin'
Blinking' on and on, all the fans are blowin'
Gotta get down to the forums
Gotta IRC, I see my friends (My friends)

Screamin' out "first post"
Dumpin' logs to /dev/null
Gotta make my mind up
Which thread will I read?

It's Linux, Linux
Gotta apt get an upgrade
Everybody's lookin' forward to the newest, kernel
Linux, Linux
Gettin' down on bash scripts
Everybody's lookin' forward to the next spin

rsyncin', rsyncin' (Yeah)
dd'ing, dd'ing (Yeah)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
Lookin' forward to the next spin

12:45, we're surfin' the internet
Cruisin' so fast, I have RAM to burn
Fun, fun, think about fun
You know what it is
I got this, you got this
My drink is by my right, ay
I got this, you got this
Now you know it

[noo_b_nomnoms]

^doubledutch flowin' Linux style! :) Speaking of FSF, Dynebolic was one of the first fully-functioning distros I ever got to work, and still approved by the Mighty GNU! :)

[bones]

[lunchtroll]
^ Waita minute - BSD isn't even linux?
FREEDOM HATER!11
[/lunchtroll]

Yeah, but I didn't want to create a "BSD News" thread. :)

And RMS can eat my shorts!

[archvortex]

^ Why isn't there a BSD thread?

[BSD talk:on]I'm sure enough of us use some form of BSD to warrant a thread. I just installed PCBSD for a professor at the local polytechnic school here. I use FreeBSD and want to try DragonBSD
[BSD talk:off] We now resume our regular Linux programming.

NuTyX 8.1-rc3 is out for you fans of LFS/CRUX (me included) and as mentioned by Frank and Pidsley in another thread, NuTyX also has a 32-bit release, unlike CRUX now which only releases 64-bit. I'm downloading now and going to give it a whirl.

[archvortex]

For Slackware fans, (nodding at Bones) AlienBOB (Eric Hameleers) has migrated all his stuff to a new server and it is great. New slackware-current isos available again. http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/

[bones]

^ Nice. This one looks interesting:

slackware-current-mini-install.iso 2016-03-31 14:12 68M

[Dr_Chroot]

^^ Ah! I tried downloading his Slackware Current iso several days ago and his server was down. It must have been during the transition :)

[franksinistra]

^ build one yourself? Using alienbob's script, you only need a few minor modifications to the script if you want to run it from debian host. :)