I'm running Slackware 13.0 and it's time to clear my system out and start fresh. Mainly because my Vista side of the machine is all but locked up. Anyway, I seen where Slack 13.1 has been out since May 2010. I was curious how often does Slackware come out with a new update. Though I've used them for a while, I've never really notied. I realize there is no set schedule and I am more than fine with what I have, I just didn't want to install the 13.1 (64) just for 13.2 to come out in a few weeks.

Any thoughts?
Ace

Of course we don't know for sure, as Pat Volkerding keeps his own council on when a new Slackware release is ready. But I think at this juncture you'd probably do just as well to wait for the next release to hit the streets; it probably won't be too much longer.

I think the historical average is somewhere in the region of every 8-9 months or so, with the release candidate stage in the past taking anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months.

"Current" is starting to smell like it's pretty much cooked to me, so I don't think the release candidate is far away now, but I'm really just guessing. It'll arrive when Pat thinks it's ready as always.

13.1 is very stable and will be that way for many years. 13.2 or what ever number Pat uses will be very stable. This week we had a huge rebuild and update to slackware. Wow those changes has made current very, I mean just wonderful stable. super smooth and the intel chip problems we have been facing have been dealt with.
I am not telling you to run current. I am saying Pat has got it very close to perfection and in my book. It is stable. as of 01-10-2011 the 2.6.35.10 LTS kernel is well thought out by the Linus kernel team.
Do Not and I repeat do not use current as your sole purpose Operating System. Only I would be crazy enough to do that and several thousand others. LOL really it has to do with security.
Read why hereCURRENT.WARNING.txt

I'd stick with 13.0 until the next version of Slackware comes out.

What I would also do if I had Vista side that was locked up is wipe it out and make it a Linux partition.

chrisretusn, I agree with the vista comment but I still have a few programs that WINE hasn't mastered. Though I must say, WINE is a great program and I meant no disrespect.

I can't shrink the partition given where Windows has put a few unmovable files. Once I start over I can alter the partitions as I see fit.

Thanks for the replies all. I think I'll wait a little longer. I'm not in any real hurry and 13.0 is working great.

Ace

I know what you mean regarding "a few programs the Wine hasn't mastered". They are getting closer though.

I have a couple of programs I run using Wine, my email client (just can't find a good replacement) and a notes taking program (to lazy to put the info in a native Linux equivalent).

I upgraded to 13.0 from 10.2. Using -current now for most of my boxes.

What email client are you using? If it's Outlook I can tell you with authority that there are a couple of direct replacements available.

As for running Windows on a separate partition, why not put it on a VM? That's what i do.

Won't that cause issues for the WGA/activation dowhatsit? I know my copy of vista is keyed to my system bios, and a VM wouldn't match that.

A phonecall to M$ might fix that I suppose ?

For a retail copy perhaps, but I doubt they'd do it for the OEM versions that ship with new systems.

PocoMail.

Regarding Windows Activation. Yes you will have to reactivate. If it is machine tailored, it won't work in a VM. Been there, tried that.

Oh, you have an OEM copy. Sorry. I didn't think of that... haven't bought a new computer in forever.

I'm not running separate partitions, Ace (OP) is running Vista on one.

Me I'm running Windows XP and Windows 7 Ultimate along with a bunch of other stuff in VirtualBox on one of my Slackware64 machines (this one in fact).

There is something sweet about running Windows in Slackware.

Nothing sweet about it for me... I'd love to be able to shake Microsoft's dust off my boots forever.