Never quite figured out why Scotch in Japan is cheaper than anywhere else in the world..

I stand corrected on rEFInd being part of slackware.
I did some check and review and find that it is not.
I had installed it long ago from a binary and indeed forgot how I got it.
Slackware gives me liberty to modify things
as I want and need.

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If they don't price it cheap everyone will just drink Suntory.

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I still feel the awfully bad taste of the root beer I was offered back in 1964 in Philadephia. Never again. Real men drink red wine from Bordeaux or Bourgogne. Patrick, I you ever come to Paris drop me a line so we'll toast.

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Suntory makes Hakushu Single Malt 25 Year Old which won World's best single malt twice. This whisky is way over my price range so I will celebrate Slackware 15.0 with Glenmorangie's Quinta Ruban.

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Dayum! A lot of rich folk running Slackware! Heh heh

I, living on a pittance of a disability check, will get to celebrate with a 12 pack of Bud...or if I splurge, a 6 pack of Guinness!

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Guinness any good in Las Vegas, FTIO?

The cans and bottles aren't great here, at least for a Guinness purist like me, but even the stout on tap can be hit-and-miss. One pub will pour the best pint and another down the street will pull you a pint of dish water. I tend to go to what we call the "old man" pubs, where you'll definitely get a good pint. And, despite what we call them, there's always a good age and gender mix at those places.

Apparently the best place in the world for Guinness, after Ireland, is Nigeria. Something to do with the missionaries who went there, wanting a taste of home.

With the prices in the pubs these days (over 4 euro a pint!), and the likelihood you won't always get a good pint there anyhow, people in Ireland have largely abandoned the pubs and now buy cans for home get-togethers. European craft beers are popular -- especially the beers brewed under the strict Purity Laws in Germany.

And they are cheap -- or were, till recently. The government here didn't like to see "foreign" breweries doing so well so they recently slapped a minimum price on all alcohol, meaning the cheap European beers are no more. But this won't be enough to rescue the large Irish breweries, since people turned to these beers because of the quality, and the absence of chemicals.

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I don't drink anymore, but I still retain the knowledge, and having lived in Germany over a decade I can tell you if all you want to do is watch Dr. Phil on TV, then German beer is great. But if you want more character and variety, then look elsewhere

Alot of people mention German beer in such discussions, but Germany beer is entirely overrated. The beer country of Europe is Belgium, not Germany. However, it's not entirely correct that German beer is without character and variety, and some of the strongest examples of that is German "pils", a particular kind of beer, and having pils in my home country also, and elsewhere, German pils has some strong character and is worth trying. Another country for pils of ofcourse the Czech Republic, which is also probably the 2nd country of beer in Europe after Belgium

Enjoy!

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I plan on completing the hardware that I'm going to install 15.0 on (nothing special, a refurbished Thinkpad T420s that I need to put a 1T ssd in).


Then I plan on waiting at least a day before downloading the official release (to let the mirrors calm down some). That will give me time to figure out how to partition the new box - quite frankly thinking of using LVM without encryption



After a month or so, I may start updating my 14.2 daily driver, as somehow I've accumulated a buncha extra packages that I don't want to be without now.

Reported for trolling!

You need to drop by and try the stuff being made here in Denmark. Not thinking of probably the best beer in the world but recent years have seen a small explosion in micro breweries. Some really interesting goodies to be found there.

Ribe Bryghus (= brewery) springs to mind...

I installed Slack back in 2000 and spent many all nighters trying to get xf86 working to get a GUI. I have distro hopped much since than. And reading these posts and seeing 15 about to release and you are all some good folks. It's time to remove Arch and go back to my roots and I hope it's a challenge on this Dell xps 9510 and I hope this aging me has tons of fun making it all work. Of course, I might be here with some questions after I exhaust the usual RTFM!

Whatever we do, I hope it's a blast. See you all on the other side fellow Slackers .

What are your plans when 15.0 is released?

PARTY!

I'll go to Denmark anytime for the food and pastries!
And, ehem, if anyone is looking for a solid sensible wife, do take a journey to Denmark

But having lived in Belgium, I'm honestly not a fan of Scandinavian microbreweries, men takk for tipset!

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I'm now running Slackware 15.0 on 2 out of 3 Slackware boxen.
Slackware64-current and Slackware 15.0 are identical today. I edited /etc/slackpkg/mirrors to point to a 15.0 mirror. Done. Simple, neat upgrade. Today is a good day.

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