Trying out NextSpace on Slackware -current with XLibre.
A modern implementation inspired by the classic NeXTSTEP desktop. It's interesting to see how its design and workflow still feel relevant decades later.
Definitely a fun project to explore.
19 June 1984.
Bob Scheifler announces the first release of the X Window System:
"I stole a fair amount of code from W ... and called it X."
Forty-two years later, I'm still running X11 daily on Slackware.
Happy Birthday, X.
Source: talisman.org/x-debut.shtml
XLibre has landed in Slackware-current's testing tree.
Thanks to Patrick Volkerding for making the packages available for testing, and to the XLibre developers for their work.
Looking forward to seeing how the project evolves.
`Thu Jun 11 23:52:08 UTC 2026
ap/vim-9.2.0620-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/cbindgen-0.29.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/cairomm1-1.18.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/gmm-5.5-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libmpc-1.4.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/meson-python-0.20.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/openexr-3.4.12-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against openjph-0.28.1.
l/openjph-0.28.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Shared library .so-version bump.
x/mesa-26.1.2-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
[PATCH 1/2] radeonsi/mm: Only setup ref surfaces with tier3.
[PATCH 2/2] radeonsi/mm: Set correct usage in si_dec_fill_surface.
Thanks to fulalas.
xap/vim-gvim-9.2.0620-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-input-evdev-20260421_6fe9c0a-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-input-libinput-20260202_4eb6691-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-input-synaptics-20260103_c22ca42-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-input-vmmouse-20260421_c3de98a-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-input-wacom-20260421_8554973-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-video-amdgpu-20260421_eec2281-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-video-ati-20260421_83098ecc-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-video-dummy-20260112_1fe02ea-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-video-intel-20260518_931b1d93-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-video-mach64-20260105_0f73197-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-video-mga-20260105_f1fdb72-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-video-neomagic-20260105_f009bb7-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-video-nouveau-20260105_4285c8c-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-video-openchrome-20260112_8c35baf-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-video-r128-20260112_04752db-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-video-s3virge-20260105_3be5906-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-video-savage-20260410_41f9fea-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-video-trident-20260107_27fdce9-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-video-vesa-20251229_48bc2b5-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xf86-video-vmware-20260421_5a44540-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/xlibre/xlibre-server-20260611_b524471bc-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
Remove xorg-server first.
Thanks to r1w1s1 for the testing help! 🙂
testing/packages/xlibre/xlibre-server-xephyr-20260611_b524471bc-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
Remove xorg-server-xephyr first.
testing/packages/xlibre/xlibre-server-xnest-20260611_b524471bc-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
Remove xorg-server-xnest first.
testing/packages/xlibre/xlibre-server-xvfb-20260611_b524471bc-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
Remove xorg-server-xvfb first.`
To add Slackware to the list: nvi 1 (1.81.6) was added to -current(15) on Mon Jan 13 00:11:55 UTC 2020, replacing Elvis as the default /usr/bin/vi provider. It shipped in stable with Slackware 15.0 (Feb 2022). It recently merged the Debian patchset, so Slackware and Debian now share most of the nvi 1 fixes.
One nice detail: when nvi was introduced, Elvis was rebuilt to drop its /usr/bin/vi and /usr/bin/ex symlinks, and nvi only provides those symlinks if no other editor already does.
I just added an "NVI ACROSS UNIX SYSTEMS" section to some notes I keep, if anyone's curious:
repo.or.cz/code-notes.git/blob…
