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posted by LaminatorX on Saturday October 25 2014, @02:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the whining-is-not-efficacious dept.

A grave bug has been introduced into the "wine" package of Debian Jessie, just days before the November 5th freeze deadline. The /usr/bin/wine launch script fails with an "error: unable to find wine executable. this shouldn't happen." message.

Debian has already suffered much unrest lately over the inclusion of systemd, with threats of a fork being issued, along with the possible cancellation of the GNU/kFreeBSD port and the possible dropping of support for the SPARC architecture. After so much strife and disruption, can Debian afford to have such a serious bug affect such a critical package so soon before such a major freeze?

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @03:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @03:47PM (#109951)

    If I were to install the most recent version of Slackware Linux available today, how much effort and configuration would it take before I got a fully working system, including at least one of the major desktop environments?

    It takes just a few minutes and almost no effort when using Debian or Ubuntu. It's just a few mouse clicks and the system is usable.

    I know it wasn't that simple the last time I tried Slackware, but that was many years ago. I remember having to edit config files, having to start X manually, and all sorts of unfriendliness like that.

    What's the current situation?

  • (Score: 2) by melikamp on Saturday October 25 2014, @04:11PM

    by melikamp (1886) on Saturday October 25 2014, @04:11PM (#109965) Journal
    Slackware actually features one of the fastest installation DVDs out there, with users reporting less than 20 minutes from popping the DVD into drive to booting into the installed OS. You will need to partition the drive with fdisk or cfdisk. (If this is too hard, use a live CD from a different distro.) After that, answering installer questions should be sufficient to get a fully working system. The X just works out of the box, but it is not started by default, so you will need to login and say startx. Making it start by default requires editing /etc/inittab (just one byte :). Like I said, it won't hold your hand. But on the plus side, it won't hold your hand either.