It’s stories like this that make me very happy I’m not dependant on any sort of Microsoft product.
There are reports of Microsoft introducing a kill switch to WGA. The “kill switch” functions exactly as you would expect: if you don’t have WGA or your WGA authentication fails, Windows will stop functioning, totally.
This would probably be [...]
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Tamim knows what he needs and wants out of Slackware. He seems very happy with his current Slackware setup, he’s even got a few screenshots of his Dropline Gnome desktop. He’s got a great list of applications for Slackware that can replace pretty much any common application found in Windows.
And, a note on [...]
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I know, I know, Slackware doesn’t ship Gnome anymore. That doesn’t change the fact that lots of people still use gnome on their slackware boxes. I’ve been a long-time user of Dropline Gnome, but will probably be give Freerock Gnome a shot next time I have to install slackware on a machine.
Anyway, the [...]
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Version 2.6.17 of the linux kernel came out today. The last 2.6.16 kernel we saw was 2.6.16.20, and the 2.6.16 was the latest stable release for a good period of time.
I know a 2.4 kernel is still default in slackware-current, but I think we’ll see a kernel out of the 2.6.17 series make the [...]
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Patrick was hard at work yesterday uploading new packages to slackware-current. Take note of the following ChangeLog entry:
xap/fluxbox-1.0rc-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to fluxbox-1.0rc.
I considered using –prefix=/usr here since X.Org will be moving from
/usr/X11R6 to /usr when Slackware absorbs the modular release, but [...]
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Well, we’re getting closer to a Slackware 11 release. What kind of software goodies can we expect from this release? On May 31st, KDE released KDE 3.5.3, which has since been included in slackware-current. Unless KDE makes another release soon, I expect we’ll see KDE 3.5.3 included in Slackware 11.
Slackware 11 is [...]
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