Re: Slackware and Slrn (was: Re: WTF is it with ubuntu?)

On 2008-10-16, Sidney Lambe <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
andrew <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ubuntu is of course incredibly well served with slrn. A third
party repository hosted by Thomas Wiegner holds a copy of the
latest svn while I note that the beta of Intrepid Ibex holds
slrn pre0.9.9-111. Slackware lags behind this even in -current
and still operates on a version 4 years old. Despite some
agitation on my part I might add :-).

No. Even the 12.0 Slackware (current is 12.1) I run came with
Slrn 0.9.8.1 [2004-10-07], and it is a great newsreader. I use it
and see no reason at all to 'upgrade'.

The current version is certainly 12.1, and this is the version I am
running, but I actually was referring to the testing branch of Slackware
which of course is known as 'slackware-current':

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt

There is usually quite some time between versions of Slackware so I am
hoping that slrn 0.9.9p1 will appear on this page before the release of
13.0.

Andrew

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