Well, I'm not a slacker, but I'll join the torrent to help out (i.e. I'll leave it running for a while when it finishes). Perhaps I might even install it in a VM as well .

Contrats,

Forrest

Yes you should, don't let it just go to waste on your HD,

Hi,
Try it! You'll like it.

After a year of trying 8 different distros for a stable development platform it's nice to settle down with Slackware64. Finally I seem to be able to breathe again.

Thanks in a big way to Pat, the Slackware crew and Fred for getting this release out before I went mad, and just in time to finish a year long project for Monday.

Thanks also to brianL, who without knowing, gives me little snippets of the UK that I have missed for the last two years while being submerged head-first into the deepest, darkest jungles of Ecuador; with my only other comfort - Slackware 11 and an old, old, Acer laptop.

Thank you Pat & the Team. I've been waiting for this release and checking the change logs every day.

Pure awesomeness! Just finished installing 13.0. It is wonderful.
I had one glitch where I couldn't install lilo to the MBR, I fixed that by booting from the DVD and running liloconfig. I kept all of my partitions. So I'm now dual booting Slackware 13.0 with Slackware-current on my main machine.
All is well.
I'm heading to the Slackware store this afternoon to buy the DVD.

Thanxs team-slack
and congratulations!

If you d/l from me here, you MUST promise to seed on bittorrent!!

ftp://hydra5.no-ip.org/slackware-13.0-iso/

It's all there . . . all six CDs and both DVDs.

I've turned seeding off to spread the wealth to LQ peeps . . . I'll turn it back on in a few hours.

Thanks Pat and the team.

I plan to purchase the official disk set from the store.

I just wanted to find out why is all that slow with my downloading right now from the torrents page, and came across your post. I have to be an asshole and say, the m ore people seeding gets you there faster but when you have 280 seeders and like 900 leechers the job isn`t quite the same isn`t it ?) I`m living the horror right now.

I am looking at 7-8 hours total to download it (55% now). My current connection maxes out at about 300KBps, and half the time it is maxing, the other half it is between 50-100KBps... Guess I will just have to wait until tomorrow to install.

Thank you (all Slackware team) for 13. First time running current was a pleasant surprise and a lot of fun.

I love this (under "SELECT PROMPTING MODE"):

newbie Use verbose prompting (the X series takes one year)

Forrest

p.s. So, yes, I'm trying it in a VM.
p.p.s. So far, I feel as if I'm stepping back into 1996.

I dont have enough ram to run that KDE and still get high framerates in games so I'll save all the bandwidth for you guys till I get 4 gigs. Enjoy.

Really? Maybe perhaps before the next release, Pat can find a way to make the X series more 'compact' in the way of choosing it. If it is in fact at all feasible.