Don't know where you folks might be but its 14:50 in Melbourne Victoria and I note that the changelog know says "Current (pre-release)" Looks like 15.0 is just around the corner.

Cheers ... many thanks to Pat and all the other well deserving contributors ... and happy Slacking in the forthcoming year to all!

If you read some threads on this forum , we have several problems everywhere , kernel , mesa ... plasma ...

And normally, since beta 1 to final release at least pass 6 month ...

Im not feel 15.0 Pre-release appears at least since one more moth of tests.

Linux , aparently fix a intel bug tomorrow , mesa "who know" ...nasty bug in intel-pipe from gallium , plasma , some graphics problems when disable compositing , and more , i know nothing is perfect , but i hope at least after 3 years , a estable and usable release for all , like 14.2 are.

After 3 yeras , we can wait a little more.

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I'm still excited ... running current and arm current .. no problems here .. perhaps I don't expect as much as some others do.

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Up here in NSW I am excited as well

expect things working is not a big request... at least when we know a problems are present , if dont know ..then ..bad lucky.

ever can release

/patches

;=)

If you are referring to the title of ChangeLog.txt here: http://www.slackware.com/changelog/c...php?cpu=x86_64

"Current (pre-release) ChangeLog for x86_64 "

It said that for years, as -current IS a pre-release to the next release.

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I was excited back in 2019 when the changelog moved, and I still am till this day!

So how many of y'all on current stay on current? I normally do the stable branch of Slackware, because I need things reliable, but with newer hardware, newer firmware, kernels and such is nice. (And newer versions of things help with gaming.) Like how broken is current in the first few months after a stable release?

I'm also excited about the state of development in the -current branch. We have a 5.x kernel, KDE-plasma, and XFCE 4.16! In my considered opinion we're a lot closer to a beta release.

I'm running current on one of my laptops now, stable on my desktop. Haven't made my mind up what to do when 15 arrives.

I always run -current because I need the latest tools and libraries.

I have been holding off on upgrading until the 5.10 kernel works better. I think that Slackware should not limit -current to the LTS kernels because it causes very large jumps to the major version. Debian "testing" avoided the kernel bugs by staying on the 5.9 branch (for now).
Ed

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I'm vacillating. I've played with the thought of going stable when slackware-15 is released. On the other hand: -current has been surprisingly stable over the 5 years I've been running it. Problems encountered have been few and mostly of my own making. As long as Eric keeps up his sterling work providing fresh gcc and glibc versions for multilib, ponce keeps up updating SBo scripts for -current, and WillySR doing the same for my preferred DE MATE, I see no incoveniencies staying on -current, at least not in the near future.

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Because 14.2 is very old, I decided to use current on all my desktop. But on my servers I only use stable.

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I am not a bit excited, except that those who ascribe some meaning to a new release will finally upgrade...
I will do what I did before, I will stay with -current.
A new release means I *might* need to go edit my mirrors file under /etc/slackpkg, but that is no hassle.