Yay!!!

Yuhuuuu

Thanks PV and the team for this release

I saw the news in the Changelog, Slackware front page doesn't show 14.2 yet.
(I'm hitting F5 like a mad man so I think it isn't cached in Squid)

edit- just posted and now 14.2 is on the front page

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Thank you Patrick and team for all your diligence, hard work and effort!

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Thank you PV & Team! Take some deserved time off and relax! I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of my subscription discs!

Thanks Pat and the Slackware Team! So when can we expect 15.0?

Lumpy

P.S. I'm kidding!!!

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Great news

When I was a beginner to linux over a decade ago I tried Mandrake, Redhat, Suse, Freebsd, Debian, and then I finally gave Slackware a try. I liked all of them that I could get working. I didn't want to see another rpm again. I was new to linux when I tried Debian and the installer defeated me (it may still defeat me). I just have no desire to try anything new or revisit distributions after using Slackware. I wanted to have a better understanding of linux and the internet said if you learn Slackware you learn linux. I don't think I've learned Slackware but I've managed to recently setup a functional KDE desktop (besides the strange easily readjustable panel resizing occasionally due X I suspect) and the handicapped outdated and now uninstalled nvidia 340 driver that didn't want work (and now the outdated installer won't even work) for me anymore on this old laptop. I found and still find Slackware's KISS philosophy liberating. It provided me an easy and logical environment in which to tinker (break and fix things) and learn some of the ends and outs of the OS at the script level. Once you kind of figure out what you are doing its extremely easy desktop to maintain. I really don't get why people think it's hard? Its extremely easy because of the KISS philosophy, stability, simple installer, and easy editing. Its easy to get going and fix after doing something stupid. Slackpkg and SlackBuilds makes it easy to stay up to date, and even upgrade (which I did from 14.1 recently).

Anyway, thank you Patrick and the Slackware Team for an amazing release! It runs great on my old laptop! I look forward to riding on current for a while (never tried doing that before)!

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I actually misread that as "What's the secession plan?".

You've nicely summed up how I feel sometimes, btw.

It's because most people have an irrational fear or even disgust for the terminal. It's the Windows/Mac effect, I guess.

Anyway, I agree with everyone else. Great work by PV and everyone else who contributed. I'm amazed at the level of care and attention to detail that go into this labor of love, and it's greatly appreciated. Slackware is like a safe haven in a crazy world of computing that's seemingly always trying to chase the latest fad.

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I was stunned when I saw Eric's twitter post. Yes, I did almost fall off my chair...almost dropped the phone! I had just updated my main desktop and 2 test-bed VMs this morning based on Wednesday's update. I have Eric's rsync slackware scripts in a cron job on my file server to run every 2 days, so its due to run tonight, and I hadn't noticed the announcement!

Huzzah! Slackware FTW!

In celebration, I am off to buy some swag in the store!

Thanks a lot Pat and everybody who helped him

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Guess I'll add my voice to the chorus of praises...I'm pumped for the release of 14.2, and am pleased that my computer is running the most rock-solid distro of the most awesome OS on the planet, bar none...can't beat perfection (or the closest thing to it!).

Here's to another stellar release!

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In spite of scraping Changelog, I was asleep and got news 5 hours late!
Dancing to the tune of 14.2 released now, ty Pat and team.

I hate to crash the party, but since there are known remaining bugs, this release comes a little premature for my taste. Yes, only a minority (e.g. users of ecryptfs) will be affected and yes, the average Slacker will know how to fix it - but still...