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Old 10-25-2014, 09:17 AM   #1
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Question What is ETA for next slackware release?


Hi,

I am reconfiguring my laptop hardware (mount ssd drive) and I want to reinstall my os, to have it clean.

Do anyone of you know what is ETA for next release of slackware?

Thanks!
 
Old 10-25-2014, 09:19 AM   #2
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When it's done, just like Duke Nukem Forever. :-)
 
Old 10-25-2014, 09:23 AM   #3
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When it's done, just like Duke Nukem Forever. :-)
Or Half Life 3
 
Old 10-25-2014, 09:44 AM   #4
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Hi,

I am reconfiguring my laptop hardware (mount ssd drive) and I want to reinstall my os, to have it clean.

Do anyone of you know what is ETA for next release of slackware?

Thanks!
Patience. When it is ready.
 
Old 10-25-2014, 10:02 AM   #5
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Hi there. Since Slackware-current is going to be the next stable release, you might want to install it right now (if you don't have critical requirements) and then simply switch repository to the new release when it is announced by Patrick Volkerding. I've been using -current for a few days, and I didn't encounter a single issue so far: there might be some, but at least here it feels like rock solid Slackware.
 
Old 10-25-2014, 11:09 AM   #6
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Hi there. Since Slackware-current is going to be the next stable release, you might want to install it right now (if you don't have critical requirements) and then simply switch repository to the new release when it is announced by Patrick Volkerding. I've been using -current for a few days, and I didn't encounter a single issue so far: there might be some, but at least here it feels like rock solid Slackware.
Advising a new member to LQ to upgrade to -current is perhaps unwise. If you do upgrade to -current please be advised that there are some risks. When you're running current you are a beta tester for the next stable release of Slackware. System breakage in -current is rare, but, it does happen on occasion. If you encounter issues it is expected that you will do some of your own trouble shooting. We generally provide support for full installs of the stable branch of Slackware.
I am also finding Slackware64-current to be rock solid.
 
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Old 10-25-2014, 11:34 AM   #7
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i think the next slackware release will be some time in the future
 
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Old 10-25-2014, 12:06 PM   #8
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Advising a new member to LQ to upgrade to -current is perhaps unwise. (...)
You're right, hitest. I assumed, very optimistically, that the OP could handle that. My parentheses about critical requirements was intended to be a kind of warning, but it's clearly not enough.
 
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Old 10-25-2014, 01:03 PM   #9
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We will have some advance notice before the next Slackware release. There are usually a few release candidates announced (occasionally many), giving people opportunity to find and report bugs so they can be fixed for the next release candidate.

Looking at ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/s.../ChangeLog.txt the first release candidate for 14.1 was announced Oct 14 2013. Release candidate 2 was Oct 21, RC3 was Oct 28, and the actual stable release was Nov 4th, twenty-one days after RC1.

That was more or less typical of the way the release process has gone in the past, so we can expect it to be the case in the future.

Recent Slackware releases have been anywhere from eight to seventeen months apart, according to http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slackware .. and it's been about twelve months now since 14.1 was released. Read into that what you will.
 
Old 10-25-2014, 02:33 PM   #10
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This question regularly comes back during each development cycle and the answer invariably comes back as well:

Code:
when it'll be ready.
Unfortunately no one knows when it'll be ready - even the Slackware Maintainer doesn't, I presume.

Only thing you can count on with near certainty: there will be at least a beta followed by several release candidates and that usually takes some months.

So, why not just install Slackware 14.1, apply all changes found in the distribution since the release, and re-install or upgrade when Slackware-next will be ready?

Installing anew or upgrading, keeping your data, is not very difficult, so there's really no risk doing that. You could use that time to get acquainted with Slackware just using it every day.

Furthermore a lot of us add to their genuine Slackware some third party packages built with the material provided by volunteers @ http://slackbuilds.org, that will need a few weeks to be ready for the next release after it occurs. That's one more reason not to be in a hurry to upgrade, in my opinion.

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Old 10-25-2014, 02:35 PM   #11
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It usually comes right after I get my system(s) working the way I want them, then I have to upgrade and start all over again
 
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Old 10-25-2014, 02:56 PM   #12
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You don't "have to" upgrade. I usually skip a release or two, when the older release does everything I need it to do.

I'd been using 13.1 on all of my systems, and it was still going strong when 13.37 rolled out so I didn't even download it. When 14.0 came out I installed it on one desktop to kick the tires, but it wasn't until 14.1 that I felt the need to upgrade everything.

There's been so much security-related activity across the board of late that while I think I will download the next release to try it out, it won't be for some time after the release, so that any new security patches will already have been applied.
 
Old 10-25-2014, 08:45 PM   #13
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Recent Slackware releases have been anywhere from eight to seventeen months apart, according to http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slackware .. and it's been about twelve months now since 14.1 was released. Read into that what you will.
Yep. I suspect we will be having release candidates for 14.2 in the not too distant future. Slackware-current and Slackware64-current are running well on two of my Slackware boxen. Slackware 14.2 is going to be another stellar release.
 
Old 10-25-2014, 09:16 PM   #14
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not to distant future is kinda relative
 
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Old 10-25-2014, 09:46 PM   #15
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not to distant future is kinda relative
Indeed. We are at the one year mark since the release of Slackware 14.1. I'm hedging my bets. I will go out on a limb and predict that RC1 will be here in a month or two. I base this on past release cycles after using Slackware for 10+ years. I may be dead wrong.
 
  


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