+1. No-one cares. If you really want to leave, do it... but please do it silently.

+2. We have a winner!

+3 Chicken dinner.

I'd forgotten that thread. My deja wasn't vuing. :)
We need an organization: SAFT (Slackers Against FUD Threads).

I personally be ok with slackware, and its maangement system - without authoritary king in black smoking, or what :)

2astrogeek: all is ok? Long time not get any news from you :)

The beatings will continue until morale improves !!

Avast there, matey! Yaaaarrrrrrr. :)

Good luck trying to organise the silent majority.

It wouldn't help anyway. Despite having had the Slackware team comment on what's going on, the silent majority (may?) read it but the vocal few ignore it and continue with the same noise and same answers.

Is there an forum feature to tag people who don't read the threads, so that their comments can be flagged and easily ignored ? :-)

It's worth remembering that Pat builds *two* distributions - 32bit and 64bit, so the maintenance is double.

/me goes to play around with the 32bit new -current

Who maintains the ARM and S/390 distributions?

You can put people on your ignore list, that's a forum feature. I see it as a kind of last resort, but consider it useful from time to time. You still can view those posts but have to allow it case by case.
Happy slacking :)

Привет!

Agree - no authoritary king types needed!

Like our BDFL, I have been experiencing some personal downtime since January, making a slow return over last week or two. It has been my intention to write you this week - I will make good effort to do so on the weekend.

Пока!

Pat just told me he's busy compiling Slackware x86_128 :p

So are people saying that firefox 31.5.0 ESR is a reasonably secure version of firefox to run on my 14.1 Slackware, and that there is no overly compelling reason for this to be updated.

That is, maybe some overly paranoid people might want to update, but there is a reasonable argument that there are really no compelling security risks in it.

Since Patrick is probably smarter than me and knows his distro better than me, and wouldn't let a super critical security update, that is trivially easy to build and test, since it is purely a security update and not a feature update of firefox, and traditionally Patrick has often released such fixes a day after mozilla's release, go unfixed for 28 days?

A good alternative to firefox would be icecat.
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/network/icecat/
Very easy to keep icecat updated yourself and IMHO is more secure than firefox.

EDIT:
Also:
There is a slackbuild in /source/xap that you should be able to modify if you wish to update firefox.