Do you use stable or current?

~sHyLoCk~ · 12-01-2009, 06:10 AM

Just want to find out how many here uses -current branch. Personally I use current but in my bro's pc I have installed stable for safe computing.

Rupa · 12-01-2009, 06:31 AM

Since the last release came with an unusable version of KDE I upgraded all my non-server machines from 12.2 to -current as soon as KDE 4.3.3 was available there.

~sHyLoCk~ · 12-01-2009, 06:36 AM

KDE4.2.4 of Slack13 is quite stable and usable for me, as long as you install kde3-compat packages from /extra

brianL · 12-01-2009, 06:37 AM

Stable with vbatts' KDE 4.3.1 packages.

mcnalu · 12-01-2009, 08:02 AM

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Since the last release came with an unusable version of KDE I upgraded all my non-server machines from 12.2 to -current as soon as KDE 4.3.3 was available there.

I've had my gripes with 4.2.4, but I don't find it unusable.

slackware 13.0 for day to day use and slackware-current on a partition of my non-essential home desktop to try it out. So I voted stable.

sahko · 12-01-2009, 08:31 AM

For as long as i only use Slackware on desktops, i will always use -current.
The development tree is usually very stable and doesnt get updated on a daily basis like rolling release distributions so the time spent maintaining it isnt that much in compare to the stable tree.
Most of the time, updates are pushed in one go after a certain period of time. eg. like now that theres no updates for 2 weeks. But sooner or later theres gonna be a bunch of them.

zbreaker · 12-01-2009, 08:56 AM

Both of my Slackware 13 installs (32 bit & 64 bit/multilib) are -current.
Love to live on the edge. Seriously though, -current is actually pretty stable imo.

bret381 · 12-01-2009, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by zbreaker

Both of my Slackware 13 installs (32 bit & 64 bit/multilib) are -current.
Love to live on the edge. Seriously though, -current is actually pretty stable imo.

I agree, current has worked very well for me. I'm not a KDE fan though, never have been, so I installed gnome... (not trying to start a gnome vs kde discussion)

H_TeXMeX_H · 12-01-2009, 09:04 AM

Mostly stable, but when I have some spare time I do try -current for a while.

hitest · 12-01-2009, 09:49 AM

I'm running 13.0 on all 5 of my Slackware boxes. On my main work station I'm running a dual boot of Slackware 13.0/Slackware-current. I use XFce and Fluxbox.

Jeebizz · 12-01-2009, 11:25 AM

Stable with Fluxbox.

veeall · 12-01-2009, 12:32 PM

Sorry i lied! I voted for current, but am actually running stable 12.1 as well. That said, kde 4.3.3 in current is really nice, though i cannot set it up exactly the way i did with kde3, but kde4.4 has enhancements up in its sleeve, that may redefine my usage habits anyway.

vss2094 · 12-01-2009, 01:38 PM

Slackware64 current with KDE.

sycamorex · 12-01-2009, 01:47 PM

I copied my Slack13 to a different partition to play with it. Then I upgraded it to -current and recompiled the kernel to 31.5. I've been using current with XFCE/fluxbox for over a month without any problem so I'm probably going to stick with it for the time being.

Nille_kungen · 12-01-2009, 02:12 PM

I run current on my everyday laptop.
But the rest of my machines runs stable.

Now i'm waiting for KDE Software Compilation 4.3.4 to reach current.
Current is more fun

but not anything for an important machine.