Slackware 12.1 RC1 ??
 

Hi,

Pat & team are getting close!

yes I can't wait to try for 12.1 or perhaps should I go for current right now?

i believe it's still worthed to wait, as changes keep going on -Current, but it's up to you
i always used -Current and no problems here

Hi,

At this point you should not experience too much trouble. As a newbie you could give some fresh insight or perspective if a problem should crop up for you.

This will be my first transition to a new version. Are incremental (less than full integer) versions sometimes rolling release from the previous one, or do they all require fresh installations?

Of course, that's assuming this isn't 13.0.

No you can upgrade from 12.0 -> 12.1 without a reinstall. Just be sure to read the changelog.txt, and changes_hints.txt and upgrade.txt

Great, thank you! Looking forward to it.

as far as i can tell, you should upgrade glibc-solibs first, then sed and pkgtools
the rest can be upgraded by using upgradepkg */* (from the root directory of the mirror if you have local mirror) which should be fine

next step is merging the .new files and you are already using -Current :)

read the files mentioned by Jeebizz and you *should* be fine

If you do the manual upgrade path, don't forget to clear out the pastured/removed packages packages.

Things like were replaced with ntfs-3g