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Interview with Patrick Volkerding of Slackware


Finally got some time to read this interview. #Slackware is still my favourite Linux distribution.



Patrick Volkerding, the founder of Slackware Linux, agreed to an interview with LQ. Here is what he had to say. Some question were contributed by members. Those questions have the member's name in parenthesis after them. Thanks Pat!


Too bad no #KDE SC 4.9.1 tonight for my desktop. rsync is just telling me after 1 1/2 hour to-check=332/601. Something is way too slow tonight.

:pillow



So many updates for #Slackware! 😀
http://www.stickycomics.com/computer-update/


♲ Willy Sudiarto Raharjo

Massive XOrg Updates

As promised, even though there has been lack of updates in public changelog, that doesn't stop Slackware team to work on updates in the private area. Robby Workman has been doing an extensive work in XOrg area and here are what we got in this changelog: a massive XOrg updates. Slackware-Current now uses a combination of XOrg-1.12, Mesa-8.0.2, xf86-video-intel-2.19.0. This brings the XOrg stack to the latest version available.

There are several packages that gets upgraded besides XOrg, namely tree, llvm, OpenSSH, bluedevil, libwnck, fribidi, and network-scripts.