Hi Chris,
Sounds good! I'm excited to see all of the changes below underway. I have not
played with the official 2.2.18 kernel yet, I've been pretty busy.. my servers
at work have been misbehaving. However, I do plan on playing with it tonight..
so I'll let you know if a generic kernel works out.
>Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:38:35 -0800 (PST)
>From: Chris Lumens <chris@slackware.com>
>To: slackware-alphadevel@slackware.com
>Subject: [slackware-alphadevel] future plans
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>
>Just letting everyone know what's coming up pretty soon...
>
>Within the next day or two (or maybe even this evening), I am going to be
>syncing out a whole pile of stuff including a few bug fixes, new
>pine/imapd and mutt packages, and openssl/openssh! Yes, that's finally
>going into the main distribution. As soon as I see that Patrick has
>uploaded all that to the ftp site, I'll sync out. Yes, I am sitting on
>that stuff for now :)
>
>I'll wait a few days for everyone to sync that stuff down and test it.
>Then, I'll be sending out KDE 2.0.1 packages with ssl support. That will
>be another big, complicated download. That's why I am going to put some
>space between that and the ssl stuff.
>
>Then, I'll be playing games with the shell. We are merging ksh into
>Slackware. I'll be doing things a bit differently from the Intel
>distribution - namely, placing ksh in as the system's sh. It seems to be
>functioning just fine on my test machines. Also, I'm thinking about
>renaming bash to bash2, and bash1 to bash. That means that bash 1.14.7
>would be "bash". So make menuconfig would work.
>
>Finally, it'll be time to merge in the 2.2.18 kernel.
>
>So, lots of stuff will be changing soon! It should be very exciting
>stuff. There might be a lot of testing to do. Oh, and then I'm going to
>be gone for 12 days for Christmas, so I'll only have limited access to
>mail and development machines.
>
>--
>Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
>@n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
>print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";
>
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