10.0, still stable or just forgotten
I'm glad Patrick is feeling better, but all his energy is being directed toward "current" and getting the next version out. Is 10.0 still stable? I feel like I'm on a solid block of ice that's drifting out to sea. Is it time to start upgrading to some of the current files? Should I wait for 10.1 to come out and upgrade to those files? Should I just save all my settings in the home directory and do a complete reinstall?
This is the first time Slackware has been my main distro when it was about to come out with a new version. Mandrake was my main distro previously. I tried Slack 9.1 briefly, but couldn't get dvd's to play quite fast enough. I figured that out and now Slackware 10.0 is my only distro. It just feels really weird to see all these updates for current and nothing for 10.0. I get the feeling they just don't have time to keep up with them and that the 10.1 is the priority. |
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On the other hand, I gather 10.1 isn't all that far away either. |
Slackware current is usually quite stable, because even though it includes bleeding edge packages, they are usually well tested, but some problems can happen. I think Slack 10.1 is due out soon, coz remember when Patrick was taken ill, preorders of Slack 10.1 were being taken at the Slackware online store.
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I suppose I'll just wait for the next release and then follow the instructions for upgrade at the Slackware site.
I guess I was just wondering if anyone had heard anything. |
hey i am going to download slackware ISOs today
so should i wait for 10.1 or should i go about downloading them i haven't tried slackware yet and i have heard that it is awesome so i want to try it soon! also do the 2 installation DISCs have the 2.6.7 kernel along with 2.4?? or are they in the other 2 source CDs regards |
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thanx!!
tonight i will be downloading Slack also how is slack different from slack-current is that ,we should first get the slackware 10.0 then we can go about updating our packages?? regards |
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In addition.. I find Slackware a really good learning *nix. It adds to my versatility in meddling other distro, *BSD and Mac Os X as well.
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thank u all for ur prompt replies!!
i really cannot wait to lay my hands on those slackware CDs regards |
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I've found that Slack Current is perfectly stable. I had more problems when I used to use Fedora with daily updates. It's not hard to go from Slack 10 to Current and then keep it current. I do it manually, reading over the changelogs when new stuff appears and selecting what I want to update. I've learned a lot about my system this way, and I feel that I'm getting the most out of Slackware and benefitting maximally from Patrick's considerable expertise. |
Pat only issues security patches for the last numbered release when a program is found to be vulnerable and a fix is avalible. I don't think he's been neglecting 10.0, there just hasen't been a need lately. He doesn't upgrade just because there's a new version, that's what -current is for.
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eelriver, where did you get that from. If you look at the changelogs he is still doing security patches on 8.1 and newer. All of them are probably a bit behind right now due to reasons we are all aware of. Here are excerpts to show that 8.1 has the same as 10.0.
ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware-8.1/ChangeLog.txt Sun Oct 31 17:54:02 PST 2004 patches/packages/apache-1.3.33-i386-1.tgz ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware-10.0/ChangeLog.txt patches/packages/apache-1.3.33-i486-1.tgz |
I mistyped when I said last numbered release, my intention was that he only issues security patches, not version upgrades for the numbered, ie. 10.0, releases.
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