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Originally Posted by physeetcosmo
i noticed this on one of the blog posts of the guys over at slackblogs, and i didn't know what it meant. Could someone explain?
i recently installed 13.1 on my eeePC as a lightweight web server. How does this relate to -Current?
Thanks for helping the n00b!
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physeetcosmo --
I have been running slackware on my personal servers since version Slackware version 4 and on my laptops
since I owned my first laptop (<G> don't recall when I bought kjhlt1 anymore <G>)
It seems over the years, for each of the five laptops I have owned, that I would install the production
version of Slackware and the following week, -current would go live
This new laptop has some hardware that needed 'the latest and greatest' software to run so I took the
plunge and instaled -current.
This is the first time I have ever installed -current and I have to ask myself 'what took so long ?'
I will say it's been a little scary running -current on the tool that I use to make a living but I have treated
each of the Kernel Updates since January as an UPGRADE ( see UPGRADE.TXT as bgeddy recommended )
and not as a simple `upgradepkg` session and so far I have had no issues at all.
Kudo's to Pat and the crew !
-- kjh
p.s. I am a long-time subscriber to the slackware CDs (since version 7) and I ask everyone who can
afford to subscribe or to buy to the Official CDs / DVDs please do so !
It's a good thing for everyone, even people running other distros because Pat and the crew do submit
useful feedback to the 'upstream devs' and most of all because IMNSHO, Slackware is the among the
last of the distros that has stayed on track with the original UNIX KISS Principles.