A Couple of Rebuilds and Upgrades in Slack-Current

As we're all waiting for Slackware 14.1 you might as well just run Current, it's that good. It's stable and up-to-date and today a new round of updates was released, among them llvm, gtk+3 and an upgrade of the mesa library to 9.1.5. A picture says it best.

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Kernel 3.9.10 Now in Slackware-Current

The title says it all, already yesterday Linux 3.9.10 entered the Slackware-Current branch which is at some point to become Slackware 14.1. Can't wait, this will be another great and extremely up-to-date release if it goes on like this. Of course you can run the latest also with stable, so far all kernel updates from Current have been working well in my 14.0 system.

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Fedora 19 - Of Schroedingers Cat and Mixed Blessings

Fedora is one of those distributions I try from time to time but that ultimately fail to stay around, usually when it comes to the upgrade process. I last used Fedora 14, after brushes with 12 and 10, the KDE spin of which got slower with every point update to the desktop but whose LXDE spin actually got used for quite a few months. So let's see how Fedora 19 pans out, featuring GNOME Shell 3.8.2, and how/if that has improved since I last tried the Shell when it was freshly released on the unsuspecting public.
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Installing Fedora 19

For the release of Fedora 18 the installation tool was completely overhauled, which also resulted in a different layout to the former Anaconda installer.  As with every subsequent release more bugs are  squashed it may eventually mature, in the meantime unintuitive and inconsistent layout prevails, coupled with the odd crash. Here I walk you through the installation of Fedora 19 from Live image. You may also want to look at the official installation guide but it's missing the section on encrypting drives.

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Today Google-Chrome Overtook Firefox

For anecdotal evidence, after Firefox staying above 42% for a long time and Chrome/ium in the 20s, over the recent two weeks this gap has narrowed and today for the first time Chrome is at 38% with 1135 page views and Firefox on 37% with 1094. Read into that what you will, this blog may not be representative.  It's a shame though, Firefox 22 has shaped up to a really nice browser with some great functionality added and memory leaks fixed. At the same time, Chrome belongs to Google and they may be spying on you every step of the way and passing it on. I'll be interested in Opera 15 when it comes out for Linux. Hope it isn't another Flock 'social' browser.

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More Updates to Slack-Current

Well guys, here we are again, another round of updates to the current branch already, barely three days after the last major batch.
Among them updates to alsa-lib to 1.0.27.2 and dbus. " This update fixes a security issue where misuse of va_list could be used to cause a denial of service for system services." Most are in the base a and in the network section. Better than a thousand words, here's a screenshot.

Slackware-current update 10/07/2013

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SalixOS - The Miracle of Upgrading When It Actually Works

Following on from my previous post on Slackware I have to root for SalixOS here which has almost slipped out of sight over the last two years or so after a spectacular start. It handled everything I've thrown at it which is more than I can say for any other distribution. The story goes like this:
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KDE 4.10.5 and Linux 3.9.9 Now in Slackware-Current

No sooner had I updated my Current partition to the recent 3.9.7 kernel and already last night KDE 4.10.5 and Linux 3.9.9 landed. Here's a link to the changelog for your convenience. What a massive piece of work. That not being enough, and with a freshly remastered iso from Eric Hameleers' script, today there are several more updates for kde-workspace (Rebuilt) and upgrades for ModemManager and NetworkManager among others.
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