I tried Slackware 14.2 beta, but unfortunately I couldn't get the network configuration to work. Slack usually configures itself automatically when I install it but it didn't this time.peebee wrote:http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/pulseau ... rent-beta/Wed Jan 13 00:01:23 UTC 2016
Hey folks, happy new year!
After upgrading to BlueZ 5 recently, everything seemed to be working great,
but then it was pointed out that Bluetooth audio was no longer working.
The reason was that the newer BlueZ branch had dropped ALSA support and now
required PulseAudio. So with some trepidation, we began investigating adding
PulseAudio to Slackware. Going back to BlueZ 4 wasn't an option with various
dependent projects either having dropped support for it, or consiering doing
so. After several iterations here refining the foundation packages and
recompiling and tweaking other packages to use PulseAudio, it's working well
and you'll likely not notice much of a change. But if you're using Bluetooth
audio, or needing to direct audio through HDMI, you'll probably find it a lot
easier to accomplish that.
Best of all, we're finally a modern, relevant Linux distro!
Thanks to Mario Preksavec, Heinz Wiesinger, and Robby Workman for a lot of
help and testing. Bug reports, complaints, and threats can go to me.
Also, enjoy a shiny new LTS 4.4.0 kernel and consider this 14.2 beta 1.Note: Slackware is NOT going to add systemd. It’s too controversial and there is no need. Your sleep will be sound now.
[EDIT: I did finally manage to get it to work, using netconfig and selecting "DHCP" from the menu. Third time lucky.]