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I'm basing my prediction on the following:
14.2
So,
14+2=16 so 2016 is the year
1+4=5 being the fifth month (May)
1+4+2=7 being the seventh day of May. If I'm wrong I'll just say that the seventh of May hasn't arrived yet.
Might be better to release it on Saturday so everything is said and done by Sunday. Then that day can be just for the mothers instead of trying to share the day with a Slackware release.
While I realize the entire question does deserve all the lighthearted playfulness it has received, I'd like to ask a serious question.
Exactly where did this obsession, and devotion to the fallacy of "New and Improved!", become such an obsession? How many people really can't run even 14.0 with an updated kernel because of some hard requirement it doesn't meet? What can't you do now that seriously affects your productivity? Or is it the same people that believe putting an after-market spoiler on a Geo actually improves performance?
OK that may have been a bit harsh but honestly there are games that take a decade to develop and many months for an expansion pack but who cares if there is some minor glitch? That is not at all the same for a serious operating system. Relax. It'll get here when it's perfect, as always.
MAME now requires a newer version of GCC to build.
A lot of programs need CMake 3 to build now.
Why upgrade MAME if it worked before? What programs do you not have and need that require CMake3? This is not in any way rhetorical or negative. I'd really like to get a handle on serious, true needs, especially those that suffer from waiting a few months.
Yes, I am of the opinion that most people do not really need "the latest and greatest" but that opinion is subject to modification and/or correction. I have heard from people that prefer such rolling releases as Arch claim they absolutely MUST have the cutting edge, and aside from software developers, I don't comprehend why that is and I'd like to be informed.
For the much nicer new UI that the new versions have.
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What programs do you not have and need that require CMake3?
LxQt and mGBA.
The question to me isn't "do I need it". It's "will it benefit me". I mean, we are at the Sophistication stage of civiliation development, right?
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“The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?”
While I realize the entire question does deserve all the lighthearted playfulness it has received, I'd like to ask a serious question.
Exactly where did this obsession, and devotion to the fallacy of "New and Improved!", become such an obsession? How many people really can't run even 14.0 with an updated kernel because of some hard requirement it doesn't meet? What can't you do now that seriously affects your productivity? Or is it the same people that believe putting an after-market spoiler on a Geo actually improves performance?
OK that may have been a bit harsh but honestly there are games that take a decade to develop and many months for an expansion pack but who cares if there is some minor glitch? That is not at all the same for a serious operating system. Relax. It'll get here when it's perfect, as always.
I am looking forward to 14.2 mainly because if the inclusion of overlayfs that AlienBob has utilized to create his Slackware-Live version. I realize I could simply upgrade my kernel to 4+, but I'm still working out the kinks of compiling my own kernel and having it work exactly how I want.
I am steadfastly opposed to the "New and Improved" model of upgrading, because, with exception to Slackware, it's rarely an improvement.
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