[lugm.org] Fwd: [New post] Slackware 14.2 released

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Date: 2 Jul 2016 2:17 am
Subject: [New post] Slackware 14.2 released
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alienbob posted: "Yep Slackware 14.2 has been released today, July 1st of
2016. Don't fall off your chairs. More than two and a half years have
passed since the previous stable release 14.1 but the long wait was
definitely worth it. Actually, the timestamp for 14.2 finaliz"

New post on *Alien Pastures*
<http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/?author=1> Slackware 14.2 released
<http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/slackware-14-2-released/> by alienbob
<http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/?author=1>
Yep

Slackware 14.2 <http://slackware.com/> has been released today, July 1st of
2016. Don't fall off your chairs.
More than two and a half years have passed since the previous stable
release 14.1 but the long wait was definitely worth it. Actually, the
timestamp for 14.2 finalization is "*Thu Jun 30 20:26:57 UTC 2016*" but Pat
needs time to prepare ISO images, torrent trackers, set up mirrors, write
the announcement blurb etcetera... plus the team is spread over several
timezones which makes it hard to pick a time to raise the glass.
This is a stellar release, go read the release announcement
<http://slackware.com/announce/14.2.php>, and start preparing your
upgrades. People whose computers have been in sync with slackware-current
are in fact already running 14.2 at this moment. CD and DVD masters have
been sent to the replicators and official ISOs can be expected to show up
on mirrors soon.

No doubt there will be another festive thread on LinuxQuestions.org
<http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/>, I am sorry there
was no "*guess the release date*" contest this time around. It would have
been a hard one to win anyway, considering the fact that Slackware's first
Beta release for 14.2 happened on January 13th... five and a half months
ago, which is about the length of a typical release cycle for some other
software projects out there.

Let's mention some more Slackware goodness. Check out the Wiki of the Slackware
Documentation Project <http://docs.slackware.com/> where content is being
added all the time. The Wiki's virtual server had some serious stability
issues last year, so it was replaced with a real-iron one with lots of CPU
and bandwidth to spare. Thanks to all for the donations which allowed me to
rent it for years to come. Another project that saw the light last
year was Slackware
Live Edition <http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/slackware-live-edition/>.
This new approach to creating a live version for Slackware allows you to
take the distro out for a test drive (in a virtual machine, or using
bootable DVD or USB media) without having to install it first. Slackware
Live Edition comes in several variants, containing desktop environments not
found by default in Slackware: Plasma 5 (the cutting edge of KDE) and Mate
(an enjoyable Gnome 2 fork). An ISO image for Slackware Live 14.2 is here:
http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware/slackware-live/slackware64-14.2-live/
.
And don't forget the SlackBuilds.org <http://slackbuilds.org/> project. It
contains a wealth of package build scripts for just about any software you
can think of.

If you are the owner of an ARM computer like the Raspberry Pi or a
BeagleBoard or such, the latest Slackware ARM 14.2
<http://arm.slackware.com/> created by Stuart Winter will become available
soon. Stuart announced that this release will be his last, but you never
know.
What's new in Slackware 14.2?

The new stable release of Slackware contains X11R7.7
<http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.7> (X.Org server 1.18.3), KDE 4.14.21
<https://www.kde.org/announcements/4.14/> (KDE 4.14.3 with kdelibs-4.14.21
and modularized i.e. many more - but smaller - packages), XFCE 4.12
<http://xfce.org/>, the Linux 4.4.14
<https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.14> kernel as
default, but with sample kernel configs for newer 4.6 kernels included as
well. And tonnes of other upgrades too. Time for some statistics: in the
970 days since Slackware 14.1 was released, only 259 packages out of a
total of 1332 (not counting /extra and /testing) have remained untouched.
The other 1073 packages were either added , upgraded or recompiled.
And what's not...

We still do not include systemd
<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/> - we are quite happy
 with Slackware's init system. In order to remain competitive, Slackware's
udev was replaced with eudev <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eudev> and
ConsoleKit was replaced with ConsoleKit2
<https://github.com/ConsoleKit2/ConsoleKit2>. That should keep the distro
fit for the future.
During the next development cycle I am going to look into elogind
<https://github.com/wingo/elogind> (another component of systemd which was
forked and made independent just like eudev). It is needed for KDE Plasma's
Wayland support. Indeed, Wayland is not part of Slackware 14.2, as we think
X.Org is doing a good job.
Upgrading

People upgrading from Slackware 14.1 have multiple options. You should
definitely read the CHANGES_AND_HINTS
<http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware64-14.2/CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT> file
to get a good picture of the many package additions and removals. The
UPGRADE.TXT <http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware64-14.2/UPGRADE.TXT> file
is an invaluable source if you want to perform a manual upgrade. The Slackware
Documentation Project <http://docs.slackware.com/> contains an article
called "upgrading Slackware to a new release
<http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:slackware_admin:systemupgrade>". It
describes how to use the slackpkg <http://slackpkg.org/> tool (which is
part of Slackware) to perform the upgrade with a large degree of automation.
Get Slack

Download your official ISO images from any of the Slackware mirrors. We use
mirrorbrain <http://mirrorbrain.org/> to ensure that a visit to
mirrors.slackware.com will lead you to a server that is near to you. In
light of previous load issues with Slackware's primary server at
slackware.com, Akamai <http://akamai.com/> have generously provided
Slackware Inc. with extensive global content caching and Internet routing
performance enhancements, allowing us to keep the site up, even at peak
times.

You can use bittorrent too if that allows you to download at larger speeds.
Our tracker is ready on http://www.slackware.com/getslack/torrents.php.

Or you create the ISO image yourself: our buddy alphageek
<http://alphageek.noip.me/> created a set of "sligdo
<http://alphageek.noip.me/linux/sligdo/>" templates which is a fast way to
recreate a bit-for-bit copy of the official Slackware DVD ISO using the "
jigdo <http://atterer.org/jigdo>" tool and a full copy of a Slackware
release directory structure. The MD5 and GPG signatures will check out OK
for an ISO created with sligdo. I have copies of all the sligdo files
<http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware/sligdo/> in case alphageek's
computer is offline.

And please consider buying a subscription at the Slackware Store
<http://store.slackware.com/> - it will help keeping the distribution
alive. You must understand that Pat is the only one in the core team who is
financially dependent on the sales of Slackware DVD's and other
merchandise. I do not think anyone who ever used Slackware wants to see
this great distribution die through lack of funding. The rest of the team
does this for fun, not for profit - we buy our own subscriptions from the
Store <http://store.slackware.com/>, just like you do.

Have fun! Eric

*alienbob <http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/?author=1>* | July 2, 2016 at
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<http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/?taxonomy=post_tag&term=release>, stable
<http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/?taxonomy=post_tag&term=stable> |
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