[ale] Slackware 11.0 RC1 is Out

[Bob Toxen]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 01:55:04PM -0500, KingBahamut wrote:
> Well, Patrick has always been about "stability".

> Gotta credit him for that one.
I find Slackware consistently more stable and safer to use than other
Linuxes, including SuSE and Mandrake and, especially Red Hat and Red
Hat Enterprise.  That is why it is my preferred platform for servers!

Bob Toxen
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> On 8/15/06, fd0man??The Magical Floppy Man <fd0man at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 14:11 -0400, Andrew Sledge wrote:
> >
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> >ALE-ers:
> >Slackware 11.0 RC1 is available now, and is part of the *current* 
> >treebranch.  This release features kernel versions 2.4.33 and an option 
> >toinstall 2.6.16 (both of which offer a SATA option).  KDE 3.5.4 and 
> >X.org6.9 also ships with the upgrade.  The most notable application change 
> >isprobably SeaMonkey, a replacement for Mozilla.
> >
> >
> >Whoa.  They are *still* using a 2.4 kernel by default?  That is? wow.  I
> >would have figured that Slackware 11 would have at least brought about a
> >2.6 kernel by default.  :-)
> >
> >    ? Mike
> >
> >--
> >  The fd0man??The Magical Floppy Man! (fd0man at gmail.com) *"One world, one
> >web, one program"  ?Microsoft promotional ad *
> >*"**Ein** Volk, **ein** Reich, **ein** Fuehrer"  ?Adolf Hitler *
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