Stable Snapshots
The latest packaged and tested source releases are available at http://slate.tunes.org/downloads/slate-current.tar.gz. This is a semi-automatically compiled snapshot of alpha contents. It is not configured as a source branch, and will sometimes contain bugs, but will generally represent stable points in the bleeding-edge developments. (Note: This distribution comes with VM sources and images for building. Download those from the alpha site or run make distclean all in the download directory to keep them updated.)
Release Overview
All official Slate release files will be posted to http://slate.tunes.org/downloads/. Slate releases all contain images and core VM sources from which a full system can be built.
Recent Releases
| Version | Date | News | Downloads (size) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.3.5 | August 10, 2005 | NEWS | Just sources (2.0Mb) |
| 0.3.4 | June 8, 2005 | NEWS | Just sources (1.8Mb) |
| 0.3.3 | April 11, 2005 | NEWS | Just sources (1.7Mb) |
| 0.3.2 | February 21, 2005 | NEWS | Just sources (1.1Mb) |
| 0.3.1 | October 31, 2004 | NEWS | Just sources (1383Kb) |
| 0.3 | August 8, 2004 | NEWS | Just sources (1016Kb) |
| 0.2.1 | January 4, 2004 | NEWS | Just sources (788Kb) |
| 0.2 | December 5, 2003 | NEWS | Just sources (690Kb) |
| 0.1 | July 29, 2003 | NEWS | Linux/x86 binaries for GLIBC 2.1 (2.2MB) Linux/x86 binaries for GLIBC 2.3 (2.2MB) Just sources (540Kb) |
Slate major version releases can be tracked via freshmeat.net.
Debian Packages
Thanks to Helmut Grohne we now have packages appropriate for installation on Debian and Ubuntu. You can find these at http://slate.tunes.org/downloads/debian/. To make this repository available for use with apt or similar tools you can add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file (the deb-src line is optional):
deb http://slate.tunes.org/downloads/debian/ ./ deb-src http://slate.tunes.org/downloads/debian/ ./
Slate is now available in debian-unstable and debian-testing. Ubuntu support may follow soon.
Development Access
Slate is currently maintained as a set of DARCS repositories at http://slate.tunes.org/repos/ for public read access via DARCS - patches can be sent easily via email. For those granted server access, it is alternately available as slate.tunes.org:/serv/slate/Slate/branch.
Branches:
- main
- Bleeding-edge development; send patches here by default. It will often be buggy or need reverting.
- alpha
- Updated from the main branch periodically and will only contain code that has gone through basic bootstrap testing; the alpha will also contain corresponding core files for bootstrapping so that builds can be performed immediately and safely.
- site
- The website repository, containing the web pages and configuration.
All of the Slate DARCS branches are viewable with a smarter web interface, including RSS feeds for the patch summaries so that development and features may be followed relatively passively.
About DARCS
DARCS is a de-centralized versioning system, so that any working copy of the source can act as its own versioning repository, making contributions and local projects simpler to manage; it also has built-in packaging and emailing of patches, so that access to our server is not needed to contribute. Since it is relatively new and unknown, you should consult their wiki, download and install from the binaries area if not already available, and read (for example) its differences from CVS.