Comment: Re:Nothing much new here. (Score 3, Informative) 67
The funny thing is that apple also uses cups for printing, right? x_x
It is more than that. Apple actually owns CUPS. They bought it in 2007
Slackware 13.37 Released->
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An anonymous reader writes "[quote]It's true! Slackware 13.37 has been released. Nearly a year in the making, you will appreciate the performance and stability that can only come with careful and rigorous testing. Slackware 13.37 uses the 2.6.37.6 Linux kernel and also ships with 2.6.38.4 kernels for those who want to run the latest. The long-awaited Firefox 4.0 web browser is included, the X Window System has been upgraded (and includes the open source nouveau driver for NVIDIA cards). The venerable Slackware installer has been improved as well, with support for installing to btrfs, a one-package-per-line display mode option, and an easy to set-up PXE install server that runs right off the DVD![/quote]"
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Comment: Re:The story title is wrong ... (Score 1) 661
and muscle mass counts in body index too. But BMI 40 *is not right*.
Well yes it counts but not in the right way. As in it makes no difference if your BMI is 40 and you are all muscle or if you are all fat, . In both cases you are labelled obese and this is wrong. There is nothing scientific or medical about the BMI. it is just a meaningless made-up value created to dispense the medical professionals from actually doing their job and save money at the expense of the patients. It is much easier and cheaper to say, "your BMI is too high, go on a diet before I actually check you up... next!"
Comment: Re:64bit only DVD's? (Score 1) 164
Since the new Slackware 64-bit is a multilib distribution the other direction should work fine as well.
Well not quite, the new Slackware64 is not currently multilib. It puts the 64bit lib in
I suspect a procedure that would work would be something along the lines of:
1) install (not upgrade) the new 64bit kernel
2) install (not upgrade) glibc-solibs
3) reboot using the new 64bit kernel in init 1
4) upgrade tar and pkgtools packages
5) upgrade every thing.
6) do some clean-up
7) reboot
Disclaimer: this is not tested, use at your own risk:-) This is not an exhaustive list and one probably should make sure to user the huge kernel as mkinitrd may not create the right image until every thing is installed. This may cause an issue for people using software RAID and/or LVM on their / mount point
Comment: Re:64bit only DVD's? (Score 1) 164
Point 2 - Slackware upgrades are braindead simple and are indeed supported. UPGRADE.TXT [slackware.com] always details how. As upgradepkg is simply remove the old package and install the new one (while being intellegent with config files) I don't see why you couldn't simply remove the old i386 packages and replace them with x86_84 ones. In a perfect world anyway.
True, Slackware updates are fairly simple these days and tools like slackpkg make life even simpler (or more boring depending on your point of view).
However upgrading from a 32bit to a 64bit distro is quite different, especially when the 64bit version is not multilib. As soon as the glibc-solibs package gets upgraded things will stop working (the libs will be 64bit and the leftover binaries such as tar will be 32bit).