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Originally Posted by kingbeowulf (Post 4780589)

I vote for "when its ready."

I WIN! I WIN! Whoop!

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Originally Posted by ljb643 (Post 4781960)

Code:

$ cat when.sh

function when_next_slackware {

    set -- "$(stat -c %y /sbin/installpkg)" \

          $(stat -c %s /etc/slackware-version) \

          $(wc -l /var/log/packages/tcl-*)

    date "+%a, %d %b %Y" -d "$1 + $(( $2 + $3 )) days"

}

$ . ./when.sh

$ when_next_slackware

Fri, 28 Sep 2012

Nice code!

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Originally Posted by dugan (Post 4786248)

Next week Friday. Sept 28.

Dugan guessed the correct date a week ago!

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Originally Posted by volkerdi (Post 4792071)

Nice code!

Thank you. Of course, it picked the right date for the release (else it would have been buggy code).

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Originally Posted by cowlitzron (Post 4792081)

Dugan guessed the correct date a week ago!

I beat him to it by about 5 days, but I will graciously offer to share the huge prize, 60% for me, 40% for him.

Aw heck, I wasn't even close.

-JJ

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Originally Posted by botzko (Post 4787364)

It will be soon, very soon .... May be in next 2 days.

To be fair, I think botzko's guess is worthy of recognition too, considering the changelogs say September 26. :) Have I missed any other September 26ers?
Incidentally, when I initially saw this thread, I had a private guess of September 27. When yesterday came and went, I felt all happy and smart for not having said anything, leaving me with the chance of being right in the future. (Yesterday I considered posting a new date of October 2.) I don't feel all happy and smart now, however. That said, I'm delighted Slackware 14.0 is here! In particular, I'm very delighted that it was released just after the beta of Ubuntu 12.10, as opposed to the last release, which came just before the release of Ubuntu 11.04. May Slackware enjoy all the time it can at the top of the Latest News and Updates section of the DistroWatch home page! :D