Waiting For Thirteen
Posted 08-25-2009 at 05:34 PM by brianL
Today is Boomtime, the 18th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3175.
There's great expectations, nervous tension, and a large dose of silliness in the Slackware forum. All caused by the imminent arrival of Slackware 13.0.
I've been messing around with the two versions of current: 32 & 64 bit, trying to decide what to run when 13 materialises. Think I'm pretty sure now. I shall have 12.2 on my laptop (sharing the HDD with XP Pro), and 12.2 and the 64 bit 13 on my desktop. I'm keeping 12.2 partly because I still prefer KDE3 to KDE4. When I first saw KDE4 I dismissed it as a triumph of eye-candy over functionality. It just didn't seem to belong to Slackware, didn't fit, wasn't right. My opinion has mellowed a bit, and I've got used to it.
There's great expectations, nervous tension, and a large dose of silliness in the Slackware forum. All caused by the imminent arrival of Slackware 13.0.
I've been messing around with the two versions of current: 32 & 64 bit, trying to decide what to run when 13 materialises. Think I'm pretty sure now. I shall have 12.2 on my laptop (sharing the HDD with XP Pro), and 12.2 and the 64 bit 13 on my desktop. I'm keeping 12.2 partly because I still prefer KDE3 to KDE4. When I first saw KDE4 I dismissed it as a triumph of eye-candy over functionality. It just didn't seem to belong to Slackware, didn't fit, wasn't right. My opinion has mellowed a bit, and I've got used to it.
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