look
can u answer why do u use SW??
then if u can then any thing u like in SW12.1 will find better than it in 12.2 as people say but i didn't try 12.2 yet

I have the same "problem", Slackware 12.1 being rock solid and with my extra packages installed and even compiled some on 12.1 like firefox and pm-utils. I have begun to compile packages for 12.2 though in a virtual machine, just in case. Beyond that ... it might be the first Slackware release since 9.1 that I won't install, but I'll see. Christmas holidays are coming, so to me this is the biggest argument to upgrade: Time to spare and a boring, because functioning old Slackware install

Since 10.2, with every new release I've followed the instructions in UPGRADE.TXT and CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT to upgrade and I didn't have a single problem in any case. The way Slackware is configured is so transparent, it's easy to find out what must be done and those two files really contain what you need (unless you have a heavily modded system, e.g. with Gnome). Stock Slackware packages don't break with an update of course , you should worry only if you have external software which are very strictly dependent on the old versions of the stock packages. In particular, 12.1 -> 12.2 is not a drastic update (no major changes in KDE, X.org etc.), so there isn't much reason for breakage really. In my case all of my external software continued to work after the upgrade.

Hi,

AOL or netspeak is not really that good of a communication path. If English is not your first language then you are just adding to the confusion of your post. Here on LQ we do use English as the language of choice therefore AOL or netspeak do not qualify.

Don't be so harsh. It's definitely not his native language (not mine either). Netspeak is meant for WoW children who know how to speak properly but do not care. Ahmed made an improvement cause 2 years ago I couldn't understand what he was asking for. The only thing he could fix is using capital letters and you instead of u. I doubt Egyptian syntax is the same as English one.

thank you Alien_Hominid very very much

Capital letter is a big letter at the start of the sentence. People usually start sentences with capital letters. These are capital letters:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ...

Hi,
I'm not being harsh. If English is not the native language then why use 'Netpseak' to compound and confuse the post? Add to the mix 'TechSpeak' and you really have confusion.

No, 'netpseak' is meant to be used for quick response because of the abbreviation therefore the laziness aspect when used in a composed response.

One should use proper structures when composing a inquiry so as not to confuse. Yes, the proper capitalization along with grammar, sentence structure and proper syntax then a understandable response can be composed.

I don't expect every response to be filtered but should be presented so we can respond with a intelligible reply relative to the posted content.

Another crappy review from a consistently crappy reviewer:
http://www.techiemoe.com/tech/slack122.htm

That I can agree with.

that reviewer really doesn't like going out of his comfort zone, does he?

That bit about KDE4 was the only sensible part of the article. He's probably in league with that woman who gave 12.1 a bad review and attracted a lot of flak off Slackers.

Since the reviewer stated that he prefers an out-of-the-box distro, then logically he shouldn't be trying out anymore versions of Slackware, should he? I also don't really like to leave my comfort zone, and Slackware is that comfort zone.

I wouldn't really call it sensible, he doesn't even give a reason why he doesn't like kde 4. If you are going to critize something, you should at least give it constructive critisism.