Why I always come back to Salix in the end...(Zenwalk)

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Kingpin
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Why I always come back to Salix in the end...(Zenwalk)

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Some time ago I wrote an article about Salix on my website (https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/salix.html), and there I said a few bad words about Zenwalk (the only other distro with the "one application per task" philosophy). Yesterday I decided I'd be fair and check it out. Installation was text-based, but a breeze (I'm familiar with the Slackware text installer - newbies might not be though). Anyway, I decided to use the "upgrade all packages" option (with the default repository). And it upgraded Geany from 1.28 to 1.33. I try to turn it on and..."GLIBC 2.25 is missing". So it upgraded Geany to a version that requires a glibc that it doesn't ship...kind of a bad decision if you ask me...

Also, there is nothing like Network Manager to detect your Wifi. So you have to input stuff. Seriously, it's the 21st century...

Salix rules!
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Re: Why I always come back to Salix in the end...(Zenwalk)

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Kingpin wrote: 26. Sep 2018, 11:59And it upgraded Geany from 1.28 to 1.33. I try to turn it on and..."GLIBC 2.25 is missing". So it upgraded Geany to a version that requires a glibc that it doesn't ship...kind of a bad decision if you ask me...
I see here that geany 1.33 was updated on Mon Mar 12 10:14:17 CET 2018, but glibc was upgraded to 2.28 on Fri Sep 21 18:51:07 UTC 2018 as shown in the ChangeLog for Slackware64-current. So geany should be rebuilt against the new glibc.

That's for the explanation. Now to get a fix from Zenwalk's maintainer who probably does not visit this forum often your post doesn't help much. I suggest that you post this issue here instead.
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Re: Why I always come back to Salix in the end...(Zenwalk)

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Geany was just rebuilt against the new glibc for Zenwalk and should now work, cf. the ChangeLog.

Caveat: I don't have Zenwalk installed so couldn't try it myself.
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Re: Why I always come back to Salix in the end...(Zenwalk)

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Hi Kingpin,

I added your review to the main list: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=7351&p=42624#p42624 .

Nice job! 8-)
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Zenwalk doesn't offer a LiveCD anymore, so new users who don't have (or want) VirtualBox can't even take it for a test drive! That's a mistake IMO, but it's very cool that donations to Zenwalk go straight to Slackware.
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