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View Poll Results: Do you use current or stable?
Stable 63 46.32%
Current 45 33.09%
Mixed / Both 28 20.59%
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Old 12-02-2009, 07:28 AM   #31
sahko
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Quote:
Originally Posted by uppman View Post
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
....
....
Done!

/Magnus
Thats -current. Stable is Slackware 13.0 with patches/
 
Old 12-02-2009, 07:35 AM   #32
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sahko View Post
Thats -current. Stable is Slackware 13.0 with patches/
Well ok, I should have said a mix. That's what I voted for.

I don't plan to use any more stuff from -current unless something breaks..

/Magnus
 
Old 12-02-2009, 07:50 AM   #33
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Quote:
Originally Posted by uppman View Post
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

.............
Done!

/Magnus
I followed you instructions and I am now running KDE-4.3.3.
Thank you.
Alas, even in 4.4.3 Konqueror is still unusable.
 
Old 12-02-2009, 01:11 PM   #34
eddyvp
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Most of the time Slack64-current.
Every now and then stable (on my wife's notebook)
 
Old 12-03-2009, 02:39 AM   #35
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Answered "current", since that is what I use most of the time for daily work.

My server runs stable though, as my wife's machine (she doesn't like surprises), and I have VMs with "clean" -stable 32 & 64 Slackware for testing things.
 
Old 12-03-2009, 03:03 AM   #36
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A slightly modded current.
Same here. mostly KDE mods.
 
Old 12-03-2009, 04:30 AM   #37
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No vote for 'other' so I didn't vote.

I run 11.0 for 2.4 kernels on antiques, and 11.0 for old laptop that needs rc.pcmcia to work (I can't get pcmcia on 12.1/2 to work, haven't tried 13.0 yet)

12.1 is my main desktop's tho, more software, gnome and works well for old intel's, and radeon r300 cards (with binary blob ati driver for 2.6.27 stable series kernel

Running current on one netbook and one desktop. So far so good.

Last edited by Old_Fogie; 12-03-2009 at 04:31 AM.
 
Old 12-04-2009, 09:49 PM   #38
Moch5.0
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I'm running Slackware64-current with a 2.6.31.5 kernel and Fluxbox.

So far stable
 
  


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