Actually, Lucky Cyborg and others, the imminent release of v15 seems to have created a substantial stir both positive and negative and that's normal and actually a good thing. Some so-called Native American Indian tribe noted that the measure of a man is possible by his enemies. Nobody even thinks about swatting a mosquito... unless it's "armed" with Malaria. MMA is going through hell trying to decide if transgender "females" should be allowed to compete with natural born females. Who would respect a man who beat up women?

Back directly on topic, Just today I saw a thread on Reddit r/Slackware asking "Why did you leave Slackware?". obviously meant to list a lot of negative comments. If nobody even cared, nobody would bother to post. If Slackware wasn't respected nobody would bother with negativity or positive responses.

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The 15th release promises to be excellent, but the distribution will not survive another 5-year gap between releases. -Current is a bit different from for what users (not testers) have always appreciated Slackware - for this there is Archlinux, Debian Sid or Fedora Rawhide. My 14.2 install is full of workarounds to make it adequate to current moment. It's good that I keep a log of workarounds in a text file, and if I upgrade to version 15, it will be easy for me to revert them, but for those who do not keep such a file?

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People are making a lot of noise about this release, but Slackware64 --current is a quite stable, reliable, and useable operating system for every task. Those who want a "stable system" (what ever that means?) can stop chasing the upgrades any time they like. If I'd stuck with 14.2, I would be missing out on a lot.

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Upgrades aren't just about new features and/or instability
It is also improvements, bug fixes, security fixes, ...

Good luck with that one. Let us know how many times she stabs you. :-)

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Riddle me this one: In what way was Pat supposed to "contribute something" to "the open source community" besides maintaining a distro for the past 27-28 or so years? I am at a loss as to what kind of a "contribution" you are looking for that would somehow be more meaningful than this.

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I politely disagree, I think it is a club as well...

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Ivandi is just being ivandi - barely worth an ignore. Isn't it a clue that he has been almost 100% negative about Slackware... more or less continuously... and for years? Who does that?

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He said, "so long Slackware!" I think we all should say our goodbyes to ivandi instead. He found happiness in CRUX. We have found happiness in Slackware. We should all be happy and leave bitterness in the past. Ivandi needs to emotionally untangle himself from the Slackware community, move on, and fully devote himself emotionally to CRUX.

Then why does he keep coming back here? Surely if he were truly happy with his decision he should have forgotten about Slackware by now?

The truth is that he's not happy. He's insecure and conflicted. He needs to move on, but it seems that he cannot.

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Ex-Wife Syndrome?

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Speculation about someone's thoughts or state of mind is not something I expect to read on a forum about a Linux distribution. Neither is public expression of feelings or opinions about someone or about what this person should or not do. Live and let live, please.

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Someone left Slackware (or claimed to have) and he wanted to post a thread to let us all know. OK, whatever. Done. Can we please let this thread die?

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Yes!

Aww, come on. I learned from the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV3pYZZ2jEw

The couch is currently free if you'd like a turn!
Exactly the point.