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Slitaz 5.0 release date?

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• Started 9 years ago by frash23
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   frash23
   

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   Hello,

   I know it is kind of taboo to ask about this on this site, but the roadmap still lists the 5.0 release date as "March 2013", and I was unable to find any of this information anywhere.

   The roadmap has been pretty active recently, lots of completed goals which I personally think is awesome, but I'm curious when RC's will begin popping out for 5.0.

   I'm getting a new laptop soon, and my current setup on my desktop feels very bloated, so I want to reset everything in one go to slitaz 5.0, but I'd like it on a stable release if possible.

   Is there any estimated dates for 5.0?

   Thanks,
   Jacob Pedersen

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   pankso
   

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   Hi,

   I prepared the wok with 5.0-RC1 string that I hop publish on Thursday. Then almost 2-3 weeks and we should be fine. Actually I wanted a usuable distro for ARM, that was in the 5.0 roadmap, it take me long but we have it! http://roadmap.slitaz.org/

   - Christophe

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   frash23
   

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   Oh, that was quicker than I expected!

   Thank you (and the rest of the development team) for this awesome distro!

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   Anonymous
   

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   That is good news, also would like to add my appreciation & thanks to all involved.

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   necrophcodr
   

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   I can't help but notice that the roadmap says the following is done:

   Add x86_64 Support

   How many people have successfully managed to boot the rolling 64bit base? I couldn't even get it working in QEMU, and when I attempted it on a live computer a while back, it reported back being 32bit. Maybe the live computer was actually a 64bit system? But it reported something else? That's a possibility, however to take advantage of 64bit features such as an amazingly extended vram option, a lot of packages needs to be compiled for 64bit. If anyone has a 64bit WORKING SliTaz base, I wouldn't mind hosting a small build server some time in the future.

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   frash23
   

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   @necrophcodr someone posted a tutorial on booting on UEFI using the 64 bit version, so I suppose it works.

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   necrophcodr
   

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   @frash23

   Booting is not the same as working. There's still a lot of problems with the linux64 kernel, which doesn't seem to be present in the i486 version. I'm not even sure why this is. A simple thing such as being able to start the system on most if not any x86 machine, should really be tested before being marked as "done", in my opinion.

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   kultex
   

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   thats the sense of making RC1 - to get feedback, whats working and whats not working. I have a big collection of old hardware and I just can say, that rolling now is much better than 4.0.

   And for example on a dualgrafic laptops its a mess, but this will come next.....

   and for me the focus is much more on arm than on 64bit - the 32bit version runs fine on 64bit machines....

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   necrophcodr
   

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   @kultex

   It does indeed run fine, but if you ever find yourself in need of applications that require the extended addressing options, or filesystems that tear through more than 100MB of virtual paging (I believe it is?), then you're out of luck with the 32bit system.

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    frash23
    

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    @necrophcodr
    Do normal(32bit) packages not work on the 64bit build?

    Posted 9 years ago #
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    Aleksej
    

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    /var/log/boot.log:
    

    Loading module: agpgart_intelmodprobe: FATAL: Module agpgart_intel not found.

    /var/log/messages:
    

    May  1 14:27:59 (none) user.info kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.103
    May  1 14:27:59 (none) user.info kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
    May  1 14:27:59 (none) user.info kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 945GME Chipset
    May  1 14:27:59 (none) user.info kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected gtt size: 262144K total, 262144K mappable
    May  1 14:27:59 (none) user.info kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 8192K stolen memory
    May  1 14:27:59 (none) user.info kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x40000000

    Something wrong.

    Posted 9 years ago #
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    necrophcodr
    

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    @frash23

    Some will, but some that require a larger address space (like video editing, 3D animation (blender), and even certain file systems) do not. At least, not to the extend of functioning in a stable manner. However, as for your basic web server aka busybox httpd and so on it works fine.

    Posted 9 years ago #
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    frash23
    

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    Hm. I suppose I'll stick with the 32-bit version for now then. Not that it affects me much, but I can't wait to see a stable 64-bit slitaz release :)

    Posted 9 years ago #
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    > I suppose I'll stick with the 32-bit version for now then

    AFAIK, we dont even have a 32bit PAE version.

    Posted 9 years ago #
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    frash23
    

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    @devl547
    That doesn't really affect me either.

    Posted 9 years ago #

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