ETA Slack 13.2
 

Howdy,

I know that 13.2 will be released when its ready, I was just wondering when that might be. Anyone care to take a guess?

Hi,

It seems you answered the question by the inclusion of the first sentence of your request.

:hattip:

That might be it!

It's that time already? Is this the thread where everyone makes their guesses?

Of course!

It will be ready only when Pat and the team thinks it's ready! Unless ur from the team u'd just have to guess!..I guess ;)

Is the question within the defined scope of another question to which the answer is 42? :)

gargamel

Are we there yet?

well I suppose It will be a nice suprise whenever its released.

I Just hope its around january.

Not that I want Pat and the team to work through christmas to meet my schedule (and save my life).

I've read my tealeaves. Looked in my crystal ball. Consulted the I Ching and the Tarot. Sacrificed every living thing that crawls, walks, flies, swims, or slithers. But I can't get a definite date! :scratch: :banghead:

I hear you, man. I've consulted with our local shaman and she is being evasive. Danged if I know. :)

Why so early? I'm kinda hoping it has KDE 4.6, myself.

My guess is 13.2 will be released before 13.3 ;)

Assuming that 13.2 is the next release version. :)

And sometimes even if you're part of the team....

Looking at the history of Slack, the next release should be 14 ;) But even the oldests polish Highlanders don't know this, so this must be mistery even in Heaven :scratch:

Stay cool - You will be noticed, when it's ready :D

Well, if the changelogs for -current are anything to go by, the next one will be 13.2.
As per BrianL's suggestion, I keep monitoring the wikileaks website, however, they don't
seem to have any intel on Slackware, either.

Maybe we should skip a few numbers, it's been done before, to stay ahead of Fedora (it's up to 14! :eek: ). The next release will be Slackware 17.0.

Alternatively, the version could be 17.3 - This would definitely keep the rest of the world busy trying to figure out why 17.3. In the meantime Pat would have enough time to add time traveling support to Slackware startup scripts.

The wait is longer than the team members or anyone expects. Seems a 'Slackard' named volkerdi has been hanging around the forum. He has only made 64 posts having signed up in 02 so who would expect that input to be of any value. Heck my Dell 2350 does not even boot without pressing F1 because I would not buy a replacement fan from Dell.

Can't spend more time posting here I have real work to do.

ppd

ps Yes there is a huge smile on my face, which looks ridiculous because my cheek has a tongue in it.

No corruption or hypocrisy within the organization, so WikiLeaks lost interest ;-)

All mention of Slackware was removed from Wikileaks by a cracker named iluvwindoze, his real identity is unknown, but here is a photograph

Ha-ha that guy is in serious need of a rug!
13.2 is coming to mirror near you in the coming days/weeks/months.
I sense a disturbance in the force. :)

And a psychiatrist. :)

Ahh, that explains why he thinks Win7 is a serious OS.

Cables deleted by iluvwindoze:
From 10, Downing St., to the Whitehouse:
Hi Barack,
Any news on the next Slackware release?
Dave
Reply:
Hi Dave,
No. You've got a 1337 Slacker over there, that brianL guy. Ask him?
Barack

God, I hope not. There are a few things that haven't been released yet I would like to see included.

Meanwhile, somewhere at CIA HQ.

CIA Agent: So, Mr. Volkerding... When will 13.2 be released?
*glug* *glug* *glug*
Pat (muffled): *glug* When *glug* *splutter* it's ready! *glug* *splutter* *cough*
CIA Agent: *sigh* Someone fetch another barrel of water!

They wouldn't dare waterboard Pat. That would bring down THE WRATH OF BOB on them.

I think that thinking about what everyone else is thinking of when the release will be is just thinking for nothing except for the sake of thinking, I think.

More or less, but I suppose it's not a bad way to spend a sleepy afternoon. Me, I'm hoping Pat sits on it until KDE 4.6, Koffice 2.3, and a bug-patched libxml for x86_64 makes it in.

What's wrong with libxml?

There's nothing wrong with libxml2, as I explained previously.

You know, we still haven't used the 13.37 version number. ;-)

That would be awesome! :)

You could always fore go a number and give it a name instead.

:doh: I wish I'd thought of that. :)

LOL, the OP asked a similar question not long before 13.1 was released:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...13-1-a-802054/
... and he lists "Slackware 12.2" as his distribution in his profile. :scratch:

oops, did i get 'em mixed up again?

Who would have thought of 13.37?! Ok, 13.32 or 13.54 are obvious choices, but 13.37?!!!
I haven't been using Slackware long enough to come up with that:(

I don't pretend to understand it (and obviously I don't, as was just pointed out)... but there's something screwy in the interaction between zlibs and libxml2. I don't know what else it does, but it makes Ardour so unstable as to be useless.

An older version of libxml2 was using the zlib API incorrectly, and that caused quite a few things to be "screwy," but that should be fixed now.

Does ardour statically link libxml2, and if so, was it built before -current was bumped to libxml2-2.7.7?

Are you suggesting I rebuild Ardour? I can do that...

There is a newer libxml2, and while it doesn't claim to address any zlib issues it probably wouldn't hurt to bump that again.

I'll let you know what happens after I rebuild Ardour. I REALLY want to get Ardour working on the desktop machine; it's got a lot more horespower than either of the laptops.

No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no!!!
No alliterative animals!
No Pixar personalities!

:D

Even if it was: Slackware Brave Brian? LOL

I agree number versions are more interesting.

That would be worse than Natty Narwhal. :)
And the next Debian testing will be Wheezy! :)
I think those silly names might give people the impression that Linux is a toy, not a serious alternative to Windows.
Yeah, stick to numbers.

ah why not? you brits could be quite clever with that sort of thing...let's see...
Gullible Git
Totalled Tosser
Wheezy Wanker
etc...

:D Pass those on to Ubuntu, in case they run out of ideas.

I was only kidding about a naming convention, however, Brave Brian does have a ring to it! hehe!

I know you were kidding; I enjoyed your comment, it made me laugh. :)
Agreed. I prefer the numbering system we currently use.

***hitest thinks 13.37 would be awesome***

volkerdi rules!