On October 28th, Patrick Volkerding released Slackware
3.6.
Most notable changes are:
Gimp 1.0.2
Kernel 2.0.35
procps 1.2.9
XFree86 3.3.2 pl3
Added some binary only X servers
Python 1.5.1
pine 4.05
perl 5.005_02
Includes Netscape Communicator 4.07
Sendmail 8.9.1.
libc 5.4.46 (the last release)
gcc 2.7.2.3
Patrick writes:
“Although I never encountered any problems with egcs (well,
other than the annoying string.h warnings 🙂 many of the kernel
developers feel that compiling the kernel with a gcc-2.7.x compiler
is better tested and possibly more reliable. As a result,
gcc-2.7.2.3 is now provided as an alternative to egcs-1.0.3. When
this package is installed in addition to egcs-1.0.3, then by
default C code will be compiled with gcc-2.7.2.3, while C++,
objective C, and Fortran-77 will be compiled with egcs-1.0.3. If
you need to change this, aim the ‘gcc’ and ‘g++’ links at the
compilers you want to use, or set the compiler name in your
Makefile to the compiler you want, such as: GCC=gcc-egcs-1.0.3”