Like Spring, there's the smell of fresh package updates in the -Current air. Command line based Leet quotes are now cross pollinating the boards.

The forum is abuzz with anticipating the coming of Slack like MMORPG gamers awaiting the latest updates.

And like gamers, the debates will soon spill over into which newer version of Desktop is the best: the Hoard (KDE), the Alliance (Xfce) and others.

Thank you to Pat, Bob (Eric), Bob (Dobbs), and the Slackware crew for your dedication and perseverance which has carried the power of Slack(TM) from the 20th century into the 21st century and hopefully through many centuries to come! I first took the Linux plunge around 1999 and when I think of the fact that Pat's baby has been going strong since 1993... from the perspective of all the changes that have rippled across the IT world since then, I'm in awe. Watching Slackware evolve and improve while still retaining its core strengths and philosophy over all these years has been a blast. Slackware has become my go-to-trusted-de-facto-standard Linux system when I need reliability, stability, and flexibility and that is a direct result of all the careful thought and consideration (and Slack!) you put into its design at every level.



On a side note, is it safe to say this will be the first Linux distro in the galaxy to achieve v13.37?
Could we perhaps see some new 13.37 goodies in the Slackware store to commemorate this momentous milestone?!

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Slackware 13.37 release candidate \pi.. I love it.

hm 2.6.37.6 is up

Heh 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716 has 42 digits. Dont know if someone had noticed before

source: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/it...e-1216194.html

I just guess that Pat is a bit lazy these days. He could have written instead the maximum number of decimals that the file system can handle

lol, they clearly haven't been paying attention. We've already had RC3.
The poor old fellows at The H must be struggling to come to terms with Pat's - how shall I put this - eccentric version numbers.


Dwelling in these forums is usually entertaining around release time, but I think this year's will be one long to be remembered.

Maybe it's just me but: 1+3+3+7 = 14 x (Rc)3 = 42
Someone's having fun i guess...

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maybe somebody could come up with a script that repeatedly parses http://www.slackware.com/index.html and lets us know when "13.37" appears in the page source, then we'll know it's there.....

Regularly checking the website is more fun, at least for me

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put it in crontab (if you use mutt or mail or ...):
or show a small popup if you use zenity or something similar:

RC(PI), interesting idea... as each RC brings it closer to release, just add more digits.....

I will buy the black t-shirt that has this splash screen on it...particularly if it is screened onto the back of the shirt

I predict Wednesday 12 pm CST

Since zenity is a graphic app, it needs export DISPLAY=":0" before that command.