You can't steal an idea.

Relax mate, was just bantering. I think I forgot to put a after that.

Regards.

But you can tie it up in court for years.

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There is a lot of fanless laptops coming out now since last year with the Intel Skylake processors, and I would suggest that the new Slackware version includes support for these, or else it will be useless for many. I got my new Asus PC in December as my old one suddnely got a need for repair. I had to do a lot of tweaking to get it up and running after installing 14.1 (touchpad, network, screen and more not working). I can post what I did if it is useful for someone. The essence is that these laptops now works only with the 4.4-rc6 (and rc5) kernel, and with a small hack in one of the i2c driver files, as well as some other upgrades and adjustments.

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Hi, new happy Slackware user here, greetings

I hope my non-sense of humour will be understood at least a little

I'm probably the world master at being unconvincing, but I have some idea for the next release number. Why not use some irrational number? For example 14.159265358979.... It would be nice to have a Slackware pie once in a while (edit: this gave me another idea, maybe it could be pi^e=22.459...? It would celebrate almost 23rd anniversary)

Slacky New Year!

Hi π,

welcome to this forum.

Not exactly what you look for, but try this:

Thank you. How the time flies away, Christmas just ended, and it smells of Easter already So all my votes goes for a π^e.

It would be appropriate to name the next release for Ian Murdock, like 15.1228 (or 15.2812 in US format), the day of his untimely demise.

Chris, I think that might be appropriate for Debians next release.

"Pat Volkerding and I also toyed around with the idea of merging Debian and Slackware too, but that never happened, mostly because Pat thought the distributed development model would never work."

http://wolfgang.lonien.de/2016/01/my...ock-from-2006/

I'd be curious to hear this from Patrick's perspective.

well it sounds like he seriously considered it. From an interview from Apr 01, 1994

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2750

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Great read! Thanks!

I suppose so, but I do not know much about Debian even if I acknowledge their tremendous contribution to the Linux user community.

My suggestion transcends puerile inter-distribution feuds. The world reacted in awe at Job's death, yet Murdock passed away relatively unnoticed. I am not in a position to influence Slackware's development in any regard, but I do hope that if an arbitrary number is to be chosen for the next release, it would also be a statement of solidarity within the Linux community.

Stay Healthy
Chris

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+1 on that.

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That was fascinating, especially since, coincedently, I had previously thought about combining Debian and Slackware (one idea was to use Bedrock).