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View Poll Results: Do you use current or stable?
Stable
117 51.32%
Current
71 31.14%
Mixed / Both
40 17.54%
#16
Member
Registered: Sep 2009
Posts: 140
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Nille_kungen
Now i'm waiting for KDE Software Compilation 4.3.4 to reach current.
me too. and the next stable release too.
i hope it`s done until xmas.
#17
Member
Registered: Jul 2007
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 527
Rep:
I've been running current for years, literally. I don't think I have reinstalled Slackware in this system since, at least, 4 years ago.
#18
Member
Registered: Apr 2009
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 543
Rep:
A slightly modded current.
#19
Member
Registered: Oct 2008
Distribution: slack32-13
Posts: 147
Rep:
slack64-13 & slack32-13: both stable on 5 comps. All with flux...sometime with a short switch fo xfce. Maybe I'll try another wm in the future (but NEVER NEVER NEVER KDE 4.x)
#20
LQ Veteran
Registered: Feb 2007
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,094
Quote:
Originally Posted by
brianL
Stable with vbatts' KDE 4.3.1 packages.
Ditto. Much better than 4.2.4.
I was running Xfce for a while, and still do every now and then, but found it is not as stable as KDE 4.3.1
#21
Member
Registered: Sep 2008
Distribution: Linvo
Posts: 132
Rep:
I don't think current will introduce any large security/stability issues, but it requires a lot of updating.
#22
Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Jogja, Indonesia
Distribution: Slackware-Current
Posts: 4,661
always running on -Current
#23
Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Kentucky
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 1,845
Since Slackware64, I've used only current. So far, I've not had a problem.
#24
Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2008
Location: /dev/null
Posts: 1,173
Original Poster
Rep:
Slackware -current is more stable than running a bleeding edge rolling release distro or the testing repos of other distros, because I'm guess these packages are actually tested before pushed into -current, where they go further testing? Correct me if I'm wrong.
#25
Member
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: Oklahoma, USA
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 904
In college I usually ran current. Now that I'm out I just run stable. I know that keeping current would only take about 10 minutes extra a week, but why mess with something that works, especially when I don't have as much time to fiddle with it?
1 members found this post helpful.
#26
Member
Registered: Aug 2004
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 443
Rep:
Stable with vbatts' KDE 4.3.1 packages.My internet connection is dial-up 56K(pci modem Lucent/Agere), then download current is difficult ...
#27
Member
Registered: Jul 2008
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Distribution: Slackware 13.1 32-bit
Posts: 145
Rep:
A (stable) mix with KDE 4.3.3 from current. Works like a charm!
Last edited by uppman; 12-02-2009 at 07:38 AM .
Reason: Careless use of stable.. I voted for Both/Mixed
#28
Member
Registered: Jul 2006
Location: Köln, Germany
Distribution: Slackware64-14.2 & -current, DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD
Posts: 819
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by
uppman
Stable with KDE 4.3.3 from current. Works like a charm!
Please would you share how you installed kde-4.3.3 on 13.0-stable?
#29
Member
Registered: Jul 2008
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Distribution: Slackware 13.1 32-bit
Posts: 145
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by
tramni1980
Please would you share how you installed kde-4.3.3 on 13.0-stable?
1. Did a full install of 13.0 stable.
2. Installed stuff from stable extra.
upgradepkg --install-new /mnt/dvd/extra/jdk-6/*.t?z
upgradepkg --install-new /mnt/dvd/extra/kde3-compat/*.t?z
upgradepkg --install-new /mnt/dvd/extra/bittorrent/*.t?z
upgradepkg --install-new /mnt/dvd/extra/bittornado/*.t?z
upgradepkg --install-new /mnt/dvd/extra/tightvnc/*.t?z
3. Downloaded current
lftp
#open
ftp://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/slackware
open
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware
mirror slackware-current
bye
4. Installed/upgraded according to the current changelog (as per Nov 16) with a simple script.
Code:
set -e
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/extra/jdk-6/jdk-6u17-i586-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/a/hdparm-9.27-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/a/less-418-i486-4.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/a/openssl-solibs-0.9.8l-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/ap/gphoto2-2.4.7-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/ap/hplip-3.9.4b-i486-3.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/ap/linuxdoc-tools-0.9.56-i486-6.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/ap/mysql-5.1.39-i486-2.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/ap/sysstat-9.0.4-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/n/irssi-0.8.14-i486-2.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/n/net-snmp-5.5-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/n/obexftp-0.23-i486-2.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/n/openssh-5.3p1-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/n/gnutls-2.8.4-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/n/openssl-0.9.8l-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/n/nn-6.7.3-i486-3.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/n/php-5.2.11-i486-2.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/n/samba-3.4.2-i486-2.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/d/git-1.6.5-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/d/perl-5.10.1-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/d/subversion-1.6.5-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/x/mesa-7.5.1-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/x/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.30-noarch-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/xap/imagemagick-6.5.6_10-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/xap/pidgin-2.6.3-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/xap/MPlayer-r29789-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/xap/mozilla-firefox-3.5.5-i686-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/xap/gimp-2.6.7-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/xap/seamonkey-2.0-i486-3.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/xap/xpdf-3.02pl4-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/libgphoto2-2.4.7-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/PyQt-4.6.1-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/QScintilla-2.4-i486-2.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/akonadi-1.2.1-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/alsa-lib-1.0.21a-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/babl-0.1.0-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/eigen2-2.0.6-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/gegl-0.1.0-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/pilot-link-0.12.3-i486-10.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/poppler-0.12.1-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/poppler-data-0.3.0-noarch-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/redland-1.0.9-i486-2.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/shared-mime-info-0.70-i486-2.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/sip-4.9.1-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/soprano-2.3.1-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/taglib-1.6-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/taglib-extras-1.0.1-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/wv2-0.4.1-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/strigi-0.7.0-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/qt-4.5.3_063bded-i486-3.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/qca-2.0.2-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/jre-6u17-i586-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/gstreamer-0.10.25-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/gst-plugins-good-0.10.16-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/gst-plugins-base-0.10.25-i486-1.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/phonon-4.3.1-i486-2.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/l/seamonkey-solibs-2.0-i486-3.txz
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/kde/*.t?z
upgradepkg --install-new ../../sw_installations_media/current/slackware-current/slackware/kdei/*.t?z
Done!
/Magnus
#30
Member
Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Malta
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 572
Rep:
I ALWAYS run stable.
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