Slackware 10.0 Release Candidate 1 has been released. It was announced in the slackware-current ChangeLog yesterday. This is very exciting. I haven’t tried the -current branch yet, but from what I’ve heard, the startup scripts are supposed to be greatly improved. iproute2 also comes with Slack now. I’m upgrade to 10.0 RC1 as soon as I’m done rsyncing it from the slackware.no mirror. Below is the announcement:
Tue Jun 15 18:30:11 PDT 2004
This is Slackware 10.0 release candidate 1.
xap/gimp-2.0.2-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gimp-2.0.2.
extra/bash-completion/bash-completion-20040526-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded
to bash-completion-20040526.
extra/k3b/k3b-0.11.11-i486-1.tgz: Added k3b-0.11.11.
extra/slackpkg/slackpkg-1.2.2-noarch-2.tgz: Upgraded to
slackpkg-1.2.2-noarch-2.
zipslack/*: Rebuilt ZipSlack for the upcoming release.
It looks like the grsecurity kernel patch is back for a while…they ended up pulling in a few sponsors. It made me feel good to see the companies that use grsecurity supply some money so grsecurity can continue to be developed.
Also, I’ve been interviewing for a job at Moms Meals. I originally applied for a managerial position with them, but when I went in for an interview it turned out they needed a computer guy. It sounds like they have some big changes planned for their IT stuff. They talked like they wanna have me be the IT Director for a few months and then later on bring someone else in to be the “real” IT director. The other person would be used for planning and that type of stuff, and my job would then become doing all the programming and system administration. The programming and system administration is something I’d rather do anyway, they better not cut my wages…assuming I get the job. Last time I talked to Ernie, he said he still had to check my references and wanted to get me in there ASAP.
DJ Pi should be releasing Trance Empire Vol 9 sometime this week. Again, he’s just waiting for the cover art to get finished up. The Dj Pi website (www.djpi.net) is having some trouble with the forum. Since I moved the forum from my server to the actual djpi.net server, the forum’s mail functions have stopped working. So, we can’t send e-mail through the forum anymore. The company that hosts djpi.net is starting to really irritate me. They NEVER reply to any of my support e-mails.
I really do love it. It’s much different than the other web based e-mail systems. It’s very intuitive and makes following e-mail conversations extremely easy. I might start using my Gmail exclusively. It’s also nice for mailing lists.
Well, it looks like there may not be a grsecurity patch for the linux kernels for much longer. Apparently, all of their sponsors have dropped their funding. The reasons aren’t really mentioned on the grsecurity website. It’s sad to see this happen though because grsecurity was a really nice kernel hardening patch. I just recently started using it, but I was really starting to like it. If anyone reading this page owns a company that would like to sponsor the project, please visit the grsecurity webiste: http://www.grsecurity.net/index.php
If ANYONE has any Gmail invites left, I’d be very interested in trading you some trance mixes for an invite. I almost got my hands on an invite lastnight, but the guy that I sent a couple sets to had already sent out his 2 invites (one to his girlfriend and the other got auctioned off on Ebay). If he gets some more, he said he’ll send me one, but I’m not counting on him getting anymore invites anytime soon.
So, if you wanna help me get a Gmail account, let me know.
