Slackware 15 officially released

JuvenalUrbino

Since Slackware and BSDs user will not infrequently overlap and get along well with each other...
http://www.slackware.com/announce/15.0.php

JuvenalUrbino

We switched from ConsoleKit2 to elogind, making it much easier to support software that targets that Other Init System

Enough said.

JuvenalUrbino

Promise to bootstrap pkgsrc under /opt as soon as I get a fresh 15.0 release installed.

JuvenalUrbino

Slackware 15 running under QEMU/NVMM on my Asus X555L

pfr

JuvenalUrbino How are you launching anonradio thorugh XMS?

nortonham

I tried out 15 in a virtual machine. I think I might install on bare metal soon.

I've never really tried it out long term but I do like Slackware overall, you feel more in control of everything than on any other linux based OS.

Edit: I would like to try out pkgsrc on it. In the virtual machine I couldn't get it working, but I think it was a networking issue between guest and host.

JuvenalUrbino

nortonham Edit: I would like to try out pkgsrc on it. In the virtual machine I couldn't get it working, but I think it was a networking issue between guest and host.

I have an unprivileged pkgsrc bootstrap on the SDF's MetaArray IV, running Debian Bullseye. Most packages build XD

nortonham

JuvenalUrbino

That's cool.

I think my issue had something to do with the slackware guest and networking. Will try to resolve it some other time Wanted to try out pkgsrc on slackware specifically because it doesn't really do package management

JuvenalUrbino

nortonham Will try to resolve it some other time Wanted to try out pkgsrc on slackware specifically because it doesn't really do package management

I'm a long time user of slackpkg+, although not many use it any more these days, preferring more featured solutions like spopkg and slapt-get. The latter as far as I know implements dependency handling (at least for third party repositories which keep track of "REQUIRES='..'" entries in SlackBuilds .info files ), but I've never tried it. Believe it or not, I find this loose package management in Slackware to be one of its most charming characteristic. pkgsrc is mostly to get fresh and up to date software or to deal with stuff which needs frequent updating (network related packages only found as SlackBuilds).

Anyway, in the meantime on the SDF MetaArray IV:

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You wouldn't imagine how fast do @pin's rust fancies compile on this baby. While they do have a pkgsrc bootstrap on /usr/local, 284 are the packages I ended up building myself in order to get the latest quarterly release as soon as it comes out (my PREFIX is prepended in PATH and what else). I keep them up to date with pkg_chk.

nortonham

JuvenalUrbino

One of the things I like about a full install of slack is that you could start working/doing whatever it is you do right away because there is so much installed right away.

I haven't tried slapt-get. I have used sbopkg and that would be my go to for pkg management on slack; with pkgsrc as an option to provide more software if needed. I don't have a problem with pkg management on slack, I just prefer things like apt (if I'm on linux), preferred distro is debian) and pkgin/pkg when on bsd. I'm lazy at heart, so the more work done on my behalf the better lol.

On slackbuilds.org I only see an entry for 14.2 but not for 15....does this mean installing 3rd party software on slack results in out of date software?

I know what SDF is, but I wasn't aware of the meta array. Was just reading about it, seems cool.

rvp

pfr mpv http://anonradio.net:8000/anonradio works. XMMS should work the same.

pfr

rvp I've been using mpv for this purpose for the longest time but recently started using SoX for playing local files so I just added the fancy figlet to the sox script on aNONradio.net

Edit: I've gone back to mpv and edited the script below to use mpv instead of SoX as well as adding some fancy awk to keep the output minimal

#!/bin/sh -e
#  anonradio - streams SDF ANONradio via mpv(1);
#  retries automatically if stream dropped
if [ -x $(which mpv) ]; then
  trap 'printf "\n anonradio stream terminated... \n" && exit 0' 2
  clear
  while [ 1 ]
    do clear
    printf '\n          /$$   /$$ /$$$$$$ /$$   /$$                       /$$/$$ \n'
    printf '         | $$$ | $$/$$__  $| $$$ | $$                      | $|__/ \n'
    printf '  /$$$$$$| $$$$| $| $$  \\ $| $$$$| $$ /$$$$$$ /$$$$$$  /$$$$$$$/$$ /$$$$$$ \n'
    printf ' |____  $| $$ $$ $| $$  | $| $$ $$ $$/$$__  $|____  $$/$$__  $| $$/$$__  $$ \n'
    printf '  /$$$$$$| $$  $$$| $$  | $| $$  $$$| $$  \\__//$$$$$$| $$  | $| $| $$  \\ $$ \n'
    printf ' /$$__  $| $$\\  $$| $$  | $| $$\\  $$| $$     /$$__  $| $$  | $| $| $$  | $$ \n'
    printf '|  $$$$$$| $$ \\  $|  $$$$$$| $$ \\  $| $$    |  $$$$$$|  $$$$$$| $|  $$$$$$/ \n'
    printf ' \\_______|__/  \\__/\\______/|__/  \\__|__/     \\_______/\\_______|__/\\______/ \n'
    printf '\n'
    mpv --no-config http://anonradio.net:8000/anonradio 2> /dev/null | awk '/title/ { s = ""; for (i = 2; i <= NF; i++) s = s $i " "; cmd="(date +'%H:%M:%S')"; cmd | getline d; print d,"|",s; close(cmd) }'
    sleep 5
  done
else
  echo 'mpv(1) not found or not executable - exiting...'
  exit 1
fi
exit 0

It'd be cool if upon connecting to the aNONradio chat on SDF it automatically started playing...

sorry for off topic