From: Ken Adams (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 00:53:32 EET
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
> I think we have been here before, The URL for downloading slackware 7.0 is;
>
> ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/
>
> http://www.slackware.com has a link to the above URL when you click on the
> following;
>
> Get Slack
> Then click on;
> /pub/linux/slackware Its just below, Latest Version: 7.0 in very BOLD
> letters.
> As far as i can see its been like that since the beginning of December last
> year.
>
> The differance is enormous if all you could find were 2 different files
> then you were looking in the wrong place.
>
> O yes, 2.4 will NOT be out for quite a while, 2.3 is the present
> development kernel and will become 2.4 when Linus says.
>
> Slackware 7.0 comes with kernel 2.2.13 and glibc which is very different to
> slackware 4.0 which has libc5.
> Slackware 7.0 includes ax25-apps tools and node.
Thanks for that, I will look at getting the Slack 7 soon. What I can't
seem to get my head round is why slackware.org ## The home of Slackware ##
unless I'm mistaken somehow, is at version 4.0 and a third party site is
at version 7.0 ??!!??!!?? Really hard to understand.
DOH!!!
Rgds Ken
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