Thank's to the great work of Dor Askayo we now have the updated and rebased patch's for VRR support in Gnome 44. I have included the link's to Mutter and Gnome Control Center due to them overwriting files on the main packages.

• https://reddoglinux.ddns.net/linux/gnome/44.x/gnome-control-center-vrr-44.2-x86_64-1_gfs.txz
• https://reddoglinux.ddns.net/linux/gnome/44.x/mutter-vrr-44.2-x86_64-1_gfs.txz

These two packages combined with the rest of Gnome 44 allow for a great Gaming Experience.

This repository is in the beginning stages of development, unless you want bleeding edge software please stay with either 43 or 44 stable release's on Slackware-Current. Again Gnome 45 is not complete.

Gnome 44.0 has offically been released for Slackware Current. You can either upgrade or direct install from the following weblink. https://reddoglinux.ddns.net/linux/gnome/44.x/x86_64/

Here is some interesting facts about Gnome 44

• During the development phase of Gnome 44 GTK3 components have been removed in favor of GTK4 and libadwaita
• Soup3 is being more used and Soup2 components are being removed as well
• libdex has also been added as a new dep for Gnome Builder
• Another new program has been added D-Spy (a D-Bus explorer for GNOME)
• EOG and EOG Plugins are being phased out in favor of the replacement loupe which is in Incubation right now and is 44.alpha
• Cheese is also being phased out in favor of snapshot which is still in the development stages
• Both of the new programs have been added to the 44.x repository and will be updated when current code is released.

And always if you have slackpkg+ installed slackpkg update ; slackpkg install gnome ; slackpkg upgrade-all to keep upto date with all the changes.

If you are installing Gnome 44.beta/rc manually @r-tz has created a package management tool to help you install, upgrade and uninstall Gnome from you computer. https://github.com/rizitis/sexyslack

Gnome 44.alpha has offically been released for Slackware Current. You can either upgrade or direct install from the following weblink. https://reddoglinux.ddns.net/linux/gnome/44.x/x86_64/

Here are some of the interesting upgrades in Gnome 44:

• webkit2gtk6.0 version 2.39.7
• gtk4 4.9.3 bringing a full and complete GTK4 environment to Gnome 44
• glib components 2.75.x
• libsoup3 3.3.0

And always if you have slackpkg+ installed slackpkg update ; slackpkg install gnome ; slackpkg upgrade-all to keep upto date with all the changes.

If you are installing Gnome 44.alpha manually @r-tz has created a package management tool to help you install, upgrade and uninstall Gnome from you computer. https://github.com/rizitis/sexyslack

Gnome 44.alpha has been released if you choose to upgrade to this developmental release please make sure that you install Gnome 43.2 before upgrading to Gnome 44.alpha, if you fail to install Gnome 43.2 first you will have a broken system.

Gnome 44.alpha is not yet completed and is not based on Slackware-Current with out the underlying programs that are in Gnome 43.2.

Here are some of the interesting upgrades in Gnome 44:

• webkit2gtk6.0 Taking internet security to the next level
• GTK-4.9.2 bringing a full and complete GTK4 environment to Gnome 44
• The continuation of libsoup3

As always slackpkg update ; slackpkg install gnome ; slackpkg upgrade-all to keep upto date with all the changes.

Gnome 43.2 has been rebased on Slackware-Current as of today:

All user's are urged to update to this release:

If you use slackpkg+: slackpkg update slackpkg install gnome slackpkg upgrade-all Otherwise there is a handy script that my friend r-tz has shared to keep his system's upto date with Gnome.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rizitis/reddog-bin-repo/main/reddog-bin-repo.sh

https://reddoglinux.ddns.net/wiki/index.php/Slackpkg Please check this link out for a better understanding of 3rd Party repositories.

Jay (@jloc0) has brought us with the best gift this Holiday Season a brand new LiveSlack: version 20221227 click on his website and check it out. https://slackware.lngn.net/ (Jay's GNOME LiveSlack)

https://reddoglinux.ddns.net has switched to using a rsync server for slackbuilds. When you run the build-gnome.sh file that you rename from build-gnome.txt each Slackbuild will download there tarball from the main website that they are found at. This will reduce the amount of strain on my server to allow for max capacity and to allow for greater threw put.

The server address is rsync:reddoglinux.ddns.net/gnome42 this is just a trial run to see how it holds up.