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guest_account

Member

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 57

Slitaz stagnated development

Since I don't use Slitaz but for basic/daily stuff, I hadn't updated since one year ago.

Now with New Year come I decided to try downloading and checking latest slitaz-rolling iso. I must say I had some expectations, and in turn was only disappointed.

Aside meltdown/spectre patches and perhaps other few minor under the hood stuff, there was virtually *no changes in one entire year*, except that now monitor behaves strangely when is put to "sleep" by Slitaz after idle time (monitor used to just display its known message "no signal detected" solidly, now it blinks from this message to pitch black back and forth; good thing this doesn't seem to harm system in general, for now!).

No newer kernel, no newer packages (*hm* hexchat *hm*), absolute no trace of a full Slitaz x64 at last, etc, etc.

This distribution sure still works well for some basic things; but, shouldn't it be already time to release a disclaimer saying "you can download it, there's some few support at forum, but no longer maintained"?

As implied here in the forums long ago, whoever was the founder/owner of the game, he/she either disappeared, quit for good, or is death. And just no new maintainer appears.

kultex

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 1,175

Re: Slitaz stagnated development

!!! absolutly not true !!!!

just see here:

http://hg.slitaz.org/wok-next/shortlog

Aleksej is working day by day and Slitaz is not so easy. When 6.0 is finished, I think it will have kernel 4.19

bellard

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: Slitaz stagnated development

Some facts according to 'hg log' command for the 2018 year:

The SliTaz rolling build weekly a 32 desktop with an optionnal 64 kernel.

Last commit in wok Mon Dec 31 22:00:24 2018 +0100

http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/0f7e6289846d

First commit in wok Mon Jan 01 11:21:28 2018 +0100

http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/7547eb83cc06

linux 3.16.55   Thu Mar 15 11:24:25 2018 +0100

http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/708b5293dd29

linux-libre 3.18.129    Mon Dec 17 23:42:42 2018 +0100

http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/9e8d7fd12ee2

Contributors count: 9

Main contributor Pascal Bellard: 389/467, 83%

The SliTaz next is 88% complete (http://cook.slitaz.org/next64/) and

will provide both full 32 and 64 desktop with up to date softwares

Last commit in wok-next Mon Dec 31 17:23:40 2018 +0200

http://hg.slitaz.org/wok-next/rev/e19ff076dc63

First commit in wok-next Sat Jan 06 16:41:02 2018 +0200

http://hg.slitaz.org/wok-next/rev/17a64e6b8783

Contributors count: 4

Main contributor Aleksej Bobylev: 579/686, 84%

You are welcome to contribute to SliTaz.

HGT

Administrator

From: Germany

Registered: 2016-03-25

Posts: 170

Re: Slitaz stagnated development

At least for ARM there is no visible activity since years.

Furthermore it is very frustrating when nobody seems to care about bug reports at bugs.slitaz.org.

Guest

Guest

Re: Slitaz stagnated development

thx so much for you Bellard and you Aleksej for working on Slitaz.

sagsaw

Member

Registered: 2013-03-26

Posts: 31

Re: Slitaz stagnated development

Good Work people ... lets have some patience ...

Request to developers and contributors that both 32 bit and 64 bit versions must keep coming and kernel must have support for as older hardware as possible.

Lets aim for Slitaz 6.0 to be latest and greatest till date.

guest_account

Member

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 57

Re: Slitaz stagnated development

Thanks for the answers.

Mm... wondering how long has Slitaz actually been at same 88%...

Anyway, think Slitaz 6 could possibly be closer to completion this time?

Or still ETA totally uncertain?

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Slitaz stagnated development

@guest_account

Mm... wondering how long has Slitaz actually been at same 88%...

Slitaz has no ETA for slitaz-6.0

The users that contribute their time to maintain slitaz do so at their leisure for no compensation.

Sorry if slitaz doesn't meet your expectations.