How long have you run -current without reinstalling?
 

For all -current users, how long have you gone without a reinstall?

I'm just starting to switch to -current now, so I'm wondering.

i found packages from 13.1 still installed
though i don't upgrade regularly and don't upgrade everything

I tend to try out distros and end up re-installing Slackware64-current a fair bit. I'm running -current on two boxes at the moment and they're running very well indeed, very stable. I'm also running 14.1 on two other stations. I'm very happy with -current.

Dec 2013 on desktop and Mar 2014 on laptop (when I switched to LUKS, otherwise I used -current on it since Jan 2011 without any reinstall).

-current is very stable; the only way to have problems is to create them (the solution is simple: reinstall just the package)

March 2012, that's when I started doing packages for Banshee on -current. :-)

The biggest problem was the switch to libjpeg-turbo this year, had to rebuild a LOT of stuff. But it was just time-consuming, nothing serious.

I always am running -current on the machines for daily use (desktops, laptop) and have never re-installed. The only times to start over are those moments when I had to renew my laptop and could not keep the old harddisk. Like was said before, usually when something breaks it is a matter of waiting for Pat to fix a packaging bug. On other occasions, it has been necessary to delete configuration files in my homedirectory, such things tend to happen when moving to new major versions of software.

Wow, when I think about it...quite some time. Beginning of 2013 when I got this new desktop, rolling right along. And probably a couple of years on my old box before it breathed it's last. Slackware -current is just sooooo boring :)

Since February when my hard drive died.

Same with Eric. Never reinstalled slackware from scratch, just continue to use current on all of my machine, except for servers

I install slackware when i buy a new computer (when i used desktops i moved the old installation) and never reinstall from scratch.
I use current but when there's an new slackware release i update to the new release and stay until current changed enough and then update.
I got updated boxes that's been running since 2004 with no new installations only updated/upgraded.
Why reinstall at all?

I had the one computer that started running --Current from v. 13.37 and which ran --Current until about two months ago. I reinstalled on it, not because I was having problems--well, there was the one problem. I needed increase the size of /, but that was a Frank problem, not a Slackware problem.

Hmm... I can't remember the last time I reinstalled on this machine. As an educated guess, sometime before October 22, 2011.

looking at the symlinks, i believe i set my workstation up in May 2010. been on -current since.

Am I hearing everyone correctly, you are running -current on production systems for daily work, or do you run stable 14.1 for day-to-day work? Sure -current may be stable, but isn't it considered to be beta like, and not recommended for production systems?

Also, do I assume those who run -current as the primary, you are major power users and have a deep knowledge of how to fix what may or may not be broken?

Sorry, I got inside my head and it was asking these questions : )

Slackware-current isn't like some bleeding edge, rolling-release distros that I could name. I've found -current to be very stable; it runs very well indeed. On occasion there may be issues, but, they are patched when reported.