{"id":3901,"date":"2012-09-30T18:44:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T22:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2012-09-30T18:44:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T22:44:45","slug":"new-slackware-new-joomla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3901","title":{"rendered":"New Slackware, new Joomla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slackware.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3902\" title=\"TrySlackLinux\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TrySlackLinux.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>Yikes! I am still getting used to Slackware 13.37 and all of a sudden, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.h-online.com\/open\/news\/item\/Slackware-14-0-Linux-distribution-has-arrived-1720515.html\">a new version<\/a>, 14.0 is available! Same for Joomla&#8230; looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.h-online.com\/open\/news\/item\/Joomla-3-0-Major-version-jump-for-the-open-source-CMS-1719803.html\">Joomla 3.0 is out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neither updates are trivial. For Slackware 14.0, at the very least I must be mindful of properly updating the <a href=\"http:\/\/alien.slackbook.org\/blog\/multilib-packages-for-slackware-14\/\">multilib packages<\/a> to ensure that all 32-bit programs on my 64-bit server continue to run. As for Joomla, the update may be straightforward but will it break my customized templates? Perhaps I&#8217;ll stick to 2.5.x versions for now; they will remain supported until sometime in 2014, so I have plenty of time to test things. This is why I have test systems I guess&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Slackware, incidentally, is not only the oldest surviving Linux distribution still in active maintenance, but the second oldest of all distributions. It was a direct replacement of its predecessor, SLS, and I have been using Slackware ever since the demise of SLS. In other words, for about 18 years. In fact, I switched to Slackware not long before I established my domain name and first permanent Internet connection in 1994. My server back then? Why, an old 386SX desktop computer with 4 megabytes (yes, mega) of RAM and two MFM hard drives: one, a 70 MB drive, the other, a 40 MB one.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3901' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yikes! I am still getting used to Slackware 13.37 and all of a sudden, a new version, 14.0 is available! Same for Joomla&#8230; looks like Joomla 3.0 is out. Neither updates are trivial. For Slackware 14.0, at the very least I must be mindful of properly updating the multilib packages to ensure that all 32-bit <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3901' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3908,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions\/3908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}