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Re: Updating Slackware

From	Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject	Re: Updating Slackware
Date	2026-09-14 15:20 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<11893ce$1ksm4$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	(2 earlier) <slrn11aak52.k2f.zsd@x360.localdomain> <1183lgb$2rje$1@solani.org> <slrn11ab3nj.4ut.zsd@x360.localdomain> <slrn11adbnm.vri.syl@elvira.therockgarden.ca> <slrn11adgb3.rvj.zsd@x360.localdomain>

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Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> wrote:
> That's all...  I just wondered if there was some reason why 7.x was 
> somehow incompatible with 15.0 or hard to compile on 15.0.

Given the kernel (well Linus's) desire to "not break userspace" it is 
most often the case that the newer kernel's /work/ just fine (as in, 
they boot, and the system operates much as it did before the swap).

Where the issue often arises is that to actually make use of new kernel 
features (note, "feature", not "device driver") often requires a new 
glibc that knows how to make the proper syscalls for the new features.

So while you very likely can compile, and run, the absolute latest 7.x 
on Slack 15.0, it is also likely that some of the 'latest and greatest' 
new kernel features are not usable because Slack 15's glibc does not 
yet know how to make use of them.

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Updating Slackware The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-09-08 10:56 -0700
  Re: Updating Slackware "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-09-08 13:40 -0500
    Re: Updating Slackware The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-09-08 12:04 -0700
      Re: Updating Slackware "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-09-08 19:21 -0500
        Re: Updating Slackware The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-09-08 19:07 -0700
          Re: Updating Slackware Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-09-09 02:58 +0000
            Re: Updating Slackware The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-09-09 22:51 -0700
              Re: Updating Slackware "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-09-10 07:15 -0500
      Re: Updating Slackware Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-09-09 08:28 +0200
      Re: Updating Slackware Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> - 2026-09-09 09:03 +0000
      Re: Updating Slackware kaukasoina3dore73js4@sci.fi (Petri Kaukasoina) - 2026-09-09 10:19 +0000
    Re: Updating Slackware Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-09-12 10:16 -0300
      Re: Updating Slackware Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-09-12 15:53 +0200
        Re: Updating Slackware Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-09-12 14:42 -0300
          Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-09-13 14:11 +0000
            Re: Updating Slackware Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-09-13 14:56 +0000
              Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-09-14 22:40 +0000
            Re: Updating Slackware Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-09-13 12:29 -0300
              Re: Updating Slackware Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-09-14 15:20 +0000
              Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-09-14 22:52 +0000
                Re: Updating Slackware "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-09-14 18:42 -0500
                Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-09-15 00:51 +0000
                Re: Updating Slackware "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-09-14 21:15 -0500
              Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-09-14 23:30 +0000
                Re: Updating Slackware jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-09-14 21:57 -0400
                Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-09-16 16:48 +0000
                Re: Updating Slackware Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-09-27 21:20 -0300
                Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-09-28 16:46 +0000
                Re: Updating Slackware Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-10-02 15:25 -0300
                Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-10-02 20:35 +0000
                Re: Updating Slackware jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-10-03 11:20 -0400
                Re: Updating Slackware Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-10-03 19:27 +0000
      Re: Updating Slackware "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-09-12 10:31 -0500
        Re: Updating Slackware Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-09-12 14:38 -0300
          Re: Updating Slackware "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-09-12 19:05 -0500
  Re: Updating Slackware Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2026-09-09 09:29 +0000
    Re: Updating Slackware Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2026-09-09 09:42 +0000
      Re: Updating Slackware Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2026-09-09 10:31 +0000

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