I'm glad Patrick is feeling better, but all his energy is being directed toward "current" and getting the next version out. Is 10.0 still stable? I feel like I'm on a solid block of ice that's drifting out to sea. Is it time to start upgrading to some of the current files? Should I wait for 10.1 to come out and upgrade to those files? Should I just save all my settings in the home directory and do a complete reinstall?

This is the first time Slackware has been my main distro when it was about to come out with a new version. Mandrake was my main distro previously. I tried Slack 9.1 briefly, but couldn't get dvd's to play quite fast enough. I figured that out and now Slackware 10.0 is my only distro.

It just feels really weird to see all these updates for current and nothing for 10.0. I get the feeling they just don't have time to keep up with them and that the 10.1 is the priority.

Slackware 10 is known to work.. I have never been a fan of current. I dabbled with it a bit when i first started using slackware.. but I have determined that th emost stable slackware setup is the default setup that 9.1 or 10 offers.

What with illness, and then Christmas, I imagine things have been a bit busy lately. Presumably we'll be seeing a few patches for 10.0 soon.

On the other hand, I gather 10.1 isn't all that far away either.

Slackware current is usually quite stable, because even though it includes bleeding edge packages, they are usually well tested, but some problems can happen. I think Slack 10.1 is due out soon, coz remember when Patrick was taken ill, preorders of Slack 10.1 were being taken at the Slackware online store.

I suppose I'll just wait for the next release and then follow the instructions for upgrade at the Slackware site.

I guess I was just wondering if anyone had heard anything.

hey i am going to download slackware ISOs today

so should i wait for 10.1 or should i go about downloading them

i haven't tried slackware yet and i have heard that it is awesome so i want to try it soon!

also do the 2 installation DISCs have the 2.6.7 kernel along with 2.4?? or are they in the other 2 source CDs

regards

Get them now. No one except Pat knows when 10.1 will be released.

The 2.6.7 kernel is in the 'testing' folder on one of the first two discs (can't remember which one). You have to install Slackware 10 with a 2.4 kernel, then afterwards follow the instructions in testing/linux2.6.7/README.initrd to install it.

thanx!!

tonight i will be downloading Slack
also how is slack different from slack-current
is that ,we should first get the slackware 10.0 then we can go about updating our packages??

regards

That is correct.

In addition.. I find Slackware a really good learning *nix. It adds to my versatility in meddling other distro, *BSD and Mac Os X as well.

thank u all for ur prompt replies!!
i really cannot wait to lay my hands on those slackware CDs

regards

trigggl,

I've found that Slack Current is perfectly stable. I had more problems when I used to use Fedora with daily updates.

It's not hard to go from Slack 10 to Current and then keep it current. I do it manually, reading over the changelogs when new stuff appears and selecting what I want to update. I've learned a lot about my system this way, and I feel that I'm getting the most out of Slackware and benefitting maximally from Patrick's considerable expertise.

Pat only issues security patches for the last numbered release when a program is found to be vulnerable and a fix is avalible. I don't think he's been neglecting 10.0, there just hasen't been a need lately. He doesn't upgrade just because there's a new version, that's what -current is for.

eelriver, where did you get that from. If you look at the changelogs he is still doing security patches on 8.1 and newer. All of them are probably a bit behind right now due to reasons we are all aware of. Here are excerpts to show that 8.1 has the same as 10.0.

ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware-8.1/ChangeLog.txt
Sun Oct 31 17:54:02 PST 2004
patches/packages/apache-1.3.33-i386-1.tgz

ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware-10.0/ChangeLog.txt
patches/packages/apache-1.3.33-i486-1.tgz

I mistyped when I said last numbered release, my intention was that he only issues security patches, not version upgrades for the numbered, ie. 10.0, releases.