Slackware 13.37 release notes. Mon Apr 25 02:43:57 UTC 2011 Hi folks, Historically, the RELEASE_NOTES had been mostly technical information, but once again Robby Workman has covered the important technical details in CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT. Thanks! I'll mention a few technical items here. Slackware's userspace does require a recent 2.6.x kernel (I believe 2.6.27.x is a minimum for udev), and as usual unless your needs are specific you're probably better off running the included kernels that we've tested things against. The best kernel to run (even on a one CPU/core machine) is the generic SMP one, but that needs an initrd, so be sure to read the instructions in /boot after installing with a huge* kernel if you plan to switch. We have chosen to use the 2.6.37.6 kernel after testing the 2.6.37.x kernel branch extensively (and because there are still a few things that work in 2.6.37.x but not in 2.6.38.x). But, for those who would like to run the latest kernel, there are 2.6.38.4 kernels included in /testing. Also in the /testing/source/ directory you'll find config files for two other kernel versions, 2.6.35.12 (which is a longterm supported branch), and 2.6.39-rc4, a release candidate for the next major kernel series. Slackware 13.37 contains updated versions of both KDE and Xfce, but if you prefer GNOME then you'll be pleased with the work that the GNOME SlackBuild (GSB) team is doing producing a full-featured GNOME desktop for Slackware: http://gnomeslackbuild.org Need more build scripts? Something that you wanted wasn't included in Slackware? Well, then check out slackbuilds.org. Several of the team members work on the scripts there. Thanks to the rest of the team (and other contributors) for the great help -- Eric Hameleers for major work on the KDE SC packages, init scripts, installer, documentation, and all the extra packages like multilib compilers (read more here: http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/), Robby Workman for following X.Org, udev, wicd, xfce, and tons of other projects, building and testing all that stuff, writing documentation, his work with the team at slackbuilds.org, and lots of package upgrades (like the switch to the bluez4 bluetooth stack), Piter Punk for udev and slackpkg work, Stuart Winter for more updates to linuxdoc-tools, slacktrack, and for all kinds of fixes throughout the installer and system (he finds my bugs all the time while porting packages to ARM for the ARMedslack port: http://www.armedslack.org/), Alan Hicks for testing the installer on Apple hardware, Vincent Batts for keeping Ruby working well (difficult!) and other miscellaneous fixes, Heinz Wiesinger for PHP (and other) fixes, Amritpal Bath for various bugfixes and helping with release torrents, mrgoblin for testing RAID, bluetooth, and well, everything (and fixing a lot of it, too), other very honorable mentions go to Erik Jan Tromp, Mark Post, Karl Magnus Kolstoe, Fred Emmott, and NetrixTardis, and anyone else I'm forgetting (including the other team members who contributed little fixes and suggestions here and there along with general moral support), and all the folks who emailed in bug reports (and especially fixes). Thanks for the technical assistance (*you* make this possible), and for keeping the project a good time. And, of course, thanks *much* to the upstream developers for such nice building materials. As always, thanks to my wife Andrea and daughter Briah. Have fun! Pat Volkerding --- Help keep the lights on @slackware! Shop at http://store.slackware.com