hi everyone
in previous post i asked about using pure slackware or other slack originated distros. now i decide to go slackware and its my next question: what version is suitable for me? stable or current slackware? I heard current slackware is a rolling release distro and dont need reinstall but may occur some stability issues after update. also i heard that stable version has capability to upgrade to next stable version. is this true? please recommend which version i must choose?
sorry for my english

Use the latest stable version.

Current is *not* a rolling release but a preview of what will become next stable release, provided so that experienced users can help debugging it before it is released.

PS If your native language is among those:
French, German, Greek, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Latin America), Ukrainian
You could use a Slint installer to install Slackware, see http://slint.fr/installer.html

PPS for Turkish you'll have to wait one or two weeks.

Yes. If you want to upgrade stable release, instead of install from scratch (fresh install is often recommended way to go), official documentation is UPGRADE.TXT and CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT, that each release comes with.

That's all you need ; but now slackpkg make the process (more) easy.
Good alternative documentation :
http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:sla...:systemupgrade
http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/L...rade-HOWTO.txt

Well, the main difference is that current is more up to date but **may** break while stable deserves its name.
Frankly, current breaks very rarely, I've been running it for 5 years on several computers, upgrading very regularly using slackpkg, and always had running systems. But it happens, I sometimes saw in the Changelog reversals of selected packages because of breakages. I didn't experience them but I guess I was lucky.

you can run the unstable one in virtualbox

What you really want in an operating system (and it's utilities) is stability, closely followed by usability. Stability, in Slackware anyway, comes from keeping everything as close to the developers intent as possible; there's no "enhancements," no "branding," no nothing that the developers did not intend.

Linux is the kernel, the operating system. Everything else is programs and utilities that interface with the kernel. The kernel is developed by a number of people and administered by one guy, Linus Torvalds, the originator of the Linux kernel (he has the call on what goes into the kernel). Similarly, Slackware is developed by a number of people and administered by Patrick Volkerding, the originator of Slackware (he has the call on what goes into Slackware). Developers number in the thousands world-wide who write and contribute software for Linux systems.

One of the benefits of Linux (among many) is that when problems show up -- and they do -- people jump in and fix the problem and make it available as soon as possible; "soon" can rang from as little as hours. Slackware provides patches to correct problems (they're announced in the ChangeLog at Slackware.com); you download and install the patches to keep your system stable.

As indicated by others in previous posts the Current version of Slackware is the development version where interested users can test and debug software before it becomes available to the rest of us. If you are a programmer or just wish to help out, you might want to do so; however, you need to be aware that unstable means that things may not work.

It would be a Real Good Idea to install Slackware stable and use that for your everyday computing needs and, as mentioned above, you can install VirtualBox on your stable platform then install the Slackware Current in VirtualBox to help with testing and debugging. Essentially, you really don't want to rely on the Current version for your everyday work.

If you choose to install Slackware, be sure to do a full install (you're prompted to so). When installation is complete you'll have a read-to-go system with only a few configuration steps that may or may not be needed.

I use Slackware stable (and keep it stable with patches as they become available) and my systems run for months without shutting down or rebooting (there are two that sit in a closet and stay on for up to a year with no intervention on my part). I like stable, you may too.

Hope this helps some.

If you feel the need to ask this question then the answer is stable.

As a rule we provide support for the stable branch of Slackware. If you are not sure about which branch to choose I would opt for stable.

I have been running Current on a couple of computers for several years. I have encountered two issues:

On one computer, the Broadcom wireless can be intermittently unstable after occasional updates. That computer is convenient to a wire, so I don't worry about it. The other computer has a much older Broadcom chip (I didn't have to install anything special to make it work; as soon as I installed wicd, boom! online), and its wireless is much more stable.

GTKam that I installed under 13.37 no longer works on either box--I suspect that some underlying library got updated somewhere along the line. I haven't bothered trying to fix that as I can just mount the SD card from the camera.

I have encountered no other issues, and I use a variety of desktop applications on both machines. I do need to check whether I need to update various non-native Slackware programs that I installed via Slackbuilds, but they are working and I'm lazy.

Neither of these issues has been enough to motivate me to stop running Current.

Then, again, I'm a tinkerer who really enjoys making computers do my bidding.

Yep. It is indeed enjoyable to tinker.
At the moment I'm running -Current on one box, Stable on two boxes, and Debian on my netbook. I dual boot Slackware with OpenBSD on two PCs.
-Current is very stable for me as well.

Tinkering is not limited to -current. Posting this from Slackware 14.1 with latest libdrm, latest LLVM, Mesa 10.1RC and xf86-video-ati 7.3 running xserver 1.15.