Cool! I’ve got it installed on 2 machines, works damn fine. Has gxine (which can be used also as a browser plugin for multimedia), J2SDK, Flash, Alsa, and many other cool things…
Um, the entire software industry does RC releases. RC = Release Candidate. Its a version of the software, that unless show-stopping bugs are reported afters its release, could become the final version. In theory, you go through a couple of RCs, updating the software after each, and you simply rename your last RC as the final version without changing anything. What don’t you like about it?
Slackware is very flexible when it comes to releases, so when Slackware comes into RC state its almost the final one, but if a last minute (but proven) feature needs to be aded it will be added. So the dev three is not so frozen as in other distros…meaning you guys shouldn’t care so much about the name. When Patrick considers it stable he puts out the final. But the -current three has always been pretty stable with few exceptions.
Since I use SWARET my Slackware is kept current, and I try to update daily. Judging from what I’ve seen, Slackware 9.1 is going to be very nice indeed, especially since GNOME 2.4 and KDE 3.1.4 are included.
Latest and greatest for all your software needs, and speedy.
Cool! I’ve got it installed on 2 machines, works damn fine. Has gxine (which can be used also as a browser plugin for multimedia), J2SDK, Flash, Alsa, and many other cool things…
This is one of the best slack releases yet!!!
Was this a convention started by Red Hat originally?
Me no likey! 😐
– j
Um, the entire software industry does RC releases. RC = Release Candidate. Its a version of the software, that unless show-stopping bugs are reported afters its release, could become the final version. In theory, you go through a couple of RCs, updating the software after each, and you simply rename your last RC as the final version without changing anything. What don’t you like about it?
I don’t think it’s specifically a RH thing.
Slack has been using the RC releases for several years now.
Typically a few beta releases followed by 1 or 2 RC releases, then the final release.
Slackware is very flexible when it comes to releases, so when Slackware comes into RC state its almost the final one, but if a last minute (but proven) feature needs to be aded it will be added. So the dev three is not so frozen as in other distros…meaning you guys shouldn’t care so much about the name. When Patrick considers it stable he puts out the final. But the -current three has always been pretty stable with few exceptions.
Would be great if the kde project group could finish 3.2 (or at least a beta version) just in time to be included in this new version of Slackware.
Anyway, even now Slack is, for me, the best Linux flavour.
Good job Patrick!
This is old news, as far as I know RC 2 was released sometime last week….
OK, I am stupid…. I guess it was RC 2 Beta that was released when I read it….ah well.
Since I use SWARET my Slackware is kept current, and I try to update daily. Judging from what I’ve seen, Slackware 9.1 is going to be very nice indeed, especially since GNOME 2.4 and KDE 3.1.4 are included.
Latest and greatest for all your software needs, and speedy.
ok im a noob, how do i find slackware 9.1 RC2 all the iso’s are 9.0 and most of the “current releases” are not them either.