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Didier Spaier 08-24-2012 07:51 AM

When will Slackware 15.0 be released?
 
I really can't wait!

PS If your answer is "when it will be ready", I'll rephrase my question:

When will it be ready?

mutexe 08-24-2012 07:51 AM

You completely read my mind :)

spudgunner 08-24-2012 08:03 AM

I'm extremely tempted to start a thread asking when Slackware 16.0 will be released...

H_TeXMeX_H 08-24-2012 08:26 AM

I wanna know when Slackware 666.0 will be released, as well as Slackware 99999999999999999999.0.

dugan 08-24-2012 08:42 AM

Depends on how many releases there are between 14 and 15.

mrclisdue 08-24-2012 09:15 AM

When will slackware -current become slackware -previous?

cheers,

Bindestreck 08-24-2012 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrclisdue (Post 4763141)
When will slackware -current become slackware -previous?

cheers,

When you forgot to update recent updates.

brianL 08-24-2012 09:17 AM

Sometime between Now and The Apocalypse at lunchtime.
EDIT
No...that's silly. Should be just after breakfast. I had my crystal ball upside down, Sorry. :redface:

kabamaru 08-24-2012 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier (Post 4763055)
When will it be ready?

Probably in 42 Firefox releases from now.

dwblas 08-24-2012 11:31 AM

Does anyone know when the Rhabdomancy Rodent release will happen?

sycamorex 08-24-2012 12:24 PM

My neighbour told me that the end is nigh (around December 2012) so can we ask Pat to do:

Code:

sed 's/Slackware 14/Slackware Armageddon Edition/g' *

H_TeXMeX_H 08-24-2012 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sycamorex (Post 4763301)
My neighbour told me that the end is nigh (around December 2012) so can we ask Pat to do:

Code:

sed 's/Slackware 14/Slackware Armageddon Edition/g' *

I agree with that. It's too bad we are at 14 and not 13 ... maybe we can skip to 666.

whizje 08-24-2012 02:29 PM

End of the world predictions
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1st century Early Christians Some first-century Christians expected Jesus to return within one generation of his death. According to some scholars, Paul the Apostle was one of these.[2] [3]
66-70 Essenes It is believed this sect of Jewish ascetics saw the Jewish revolt against the Romans in 66-70 as the final end-time battle. [4]
2nd century Montanists Members of the Montanist movement, founded in 156, predicted that Jesus would return sometime during their lifetimes. [5]
247 Various Christians The Roman government dramatically increased its persecution of Christians in this year, so much so that many Christians believed that the End had arrived. [4]
365 Hilary of Poitiers Announced that the end would happen that year. [5]
1284 Pope Innocent III Pope Innocent III (d. 1216) predicted that the world would end 666 years after the rise of Islam. [6]
1290 Joachimites The followers of Joachim of Fiore rescheduled the End to 1290 when his 1260 prophecy failed. [16]
1335 Joachimites Second revised date of Joachim of Fiore. [16]
1346-51 Various Europeans The black plague spreading across Europe was interpreted by many as the sign of the end of times. [17]
1370 Jean de Roquetaillade The Antichrist was to come in 1366 and the Millennium would begin in 1368 or 1370. [18]
1378 Arnaldus de Villa Nova This Joachite wrote that the Antichrist was to come in this year. [19]
1657 Fifth Monarchists This group of radical Christians predicted the final apocalyptic battle and the destruction of the Antichrist were to take place between 1655 and 1657. [33]
1658 Christopher Columbus Columbus claimed that the world was created in 5343 BCE, and would last 7000 years. Assuming no year zero, that means the end would come in 1658. [34]
1660 Joseph Mede Mede claimed that the Antichrist appeared in 456, and the end would come in 1660. [35]
1666 Sabbatai Zevi Following his failed prediction of 1648, Zevi recalculated the end of the earth in 1666. [29]
Various Christians The presence of 666 in the date led to superstitious fears of the end of the world from some Christians. [36]
1673 William Aspinwall This Fifth Monarchist claimed the Millennium would begin by this year. [37]
1688 John Napier This mathematician calculated the end of the world would be this year based on calculations from the Book of Revelation. [38]
1689 Pierre Jurieu This prophet predicted that Judgement Day would occur this year. [39]
1694 John Mason This Anglican priest predicted the Millennium would begin by this year. [40]
Johann Heinrich Alsted Predicted the Millennium would begin by this year. [41]
Johann Jacob Zimmermann Believed that Jesus would return and the world would end this year. [42]
1697 Cotton Mather This Puritan minister predicted the world would end this year. After the prediction failed, he revised the date of the End two more times. [14]
1700 John Napier After his 1688 prediction failed to come true, Napier revised his end of the world prediction to this year. [38]
Henry Archer This Fifth Monarchists claimed the second coming of Jesus would occur this year. [43]
1700–1734 Nicholas of Cusa This Cardinal predicted the end would occur between 1700 and 1734. [44]
1705–1708 Camisards Camisard prophets predicted the end of the world would occur in either 1705, 1706 or 1708. [39]
1716 Cotton Mather Revised prediction from Mather after his 1697 prediction failed to come true. [14]
1719, Apr 5 Jacob Bernoulli This mathematician predicted a comet would destroy the earth on this day. [31]
1736 Cotton Mather Mather's third and final prediction for the end of the world. [14]
1736, Oct 16 William Whiston Whiston predicted a comet colliding with the earth this year. [45]
1757 Emanuel Swedenborg Swedenborg claimed that the Last Judgement occurred in the spiritual world this year. [46]
1780 Various New England residents The sky turning dark during the day was interpreted as a sign of the end times. The primary cause of the event is believed to have been a combination of smoke from forest fires, a thick fog, and cloud cover. [47]
1789 Pierre d'Ailly 1789 would bring the coming of the Antichrist, according this 14th-century Cardinal. [48]
1792–1794 Shakers Predicted the world would end in both 1792 then 1794. [14]
1793–1795 Richard Brothers This retired sailor stated the Millennium would begin between 1793 and 1795. He was eventually committed to an insane asylum. [44]
1795, Nov 19 Nathaniel Brassey Halhed While campaigning for Richard Brothers' release, Halhead proclaimed that the world would end on this day. [49]
1805 Christopher Love This presbyterian minister predicted the destruction of the world by earthquake in 1805, followed by an age of everlasting peace when God will be known by all. [50]
1806 The Prophet Hen of Leeds In Leeds, England in 1806 a hen began laying eggs on which the phrase "Christ is coming" was written. Eventually it was discovered to be a hoax. The hoaxster had written on the eggs in a corrosive ink so as to etch the eggs, and reinserted the eggs back into the hen. [51][52]
1814, Dec 25 Joanna Southcott This 64-year-old self-described prophet claimed she was pregnant with the Christ child, and that he would be born on Christmas Day, 1814. She died on the day of her prediction, and an autopsy proved she was not pregnant. [53]
1836 John Wesley Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, foresaw the Millennium beginning this year. [54]
1843 Harriet Livermore The first of two years this preacher predicted the world would end. [55]
1843, Apr 28 Millerites Although it was not officially endorsed by their leadership, many Millerites expected the Second Coming to occur on this day. [56]
1843, Dec 31 Millerites Many Millerites expected Jesus would return at the end of 1843. [56]
1844, Mar 21 William Miller Miller predicted Christ would return on this day [57]
1844, Oct 22 William Miller After Christ did not return on Mar 21, 1844, Miller then revised his prediction to 22 October 1844, claiming to have miscalculated Scripture. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in the Great Disappointment. [57]
1847 Harriet Livermore The second prediction of the end of the world from this preacher. [55]
1847, Aug 7 George Rapp Rapp, the founder of the Harmony Society, preached that Jesus would return in his lifetime, even as he lay dying on Aug 7, 1847. [58]
1853–1856 Various Many people thought the Crimean War was the Battle of Armageddon. [59]
1862 John Cumming This Scottish clergyman stated it was 6000 years since Creation in 1862, and that the world would end. [60]
1863 John Wroe The founder of the Christian Israelite Church calculated that the Millennium would begin this year. [53]
1873 Jonas Wendell In 1870, Wendell published his views in the booklet entitled The Present Truth, or Meat in Due Season concluding that the Second Advent was sure to occur in 1873. [61]
1874 Bible Student movement The first prediction of the end of the world from the Bible Student movement started by Charles Taze Russell. [62]
Seventh Day Adventists The newly formed Seventh Day Adventists, a group founded by former Millerites, predicted the Second Coming would be in this year. [63]
1878 Bible Student movement The second prediction of the end of the world from the Bible Student movement. [62]
1881 Mother Shipton This 15th-century prophet was quoted as saying "The world to an end shall come, In eighteen hundred and eighty one" in a book published in 1862. In 1873 it was revealed to be a forgery; however, this did not stop some people from expecting the end. [64]
Bible Student movement The third prediction of the end of the world from the Bible Student movement. [62]
1890 Wovoka The founder of the Ghost Dance movement predicted in 1889 that the Millennium would occur in 1890. [65]
1892–1911 Charles Piazzi Smyth This pyramidologist concluded from his research on the dimensions of the Great Pyramid of Giza that the Second Coming would occur between 1892 and 1911. [66]
1899 C. A. L. Totten Predicted that 1899 was a possible date for the end of the world. [67]
1901 Catholic Apostolic Church This church, founded in 1831, claimed that Jesus would return by the time the last of its 12 founding members died. The last member died in 1901. [68]
1908 Bible Student movement The fourth prediction of the end of the world from the Bible Student movement. [62]
1910 Camille Flammarion Predicted that the 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet might destroy life on Earth, but not the planet itself. [69]
1914 Bible Student movement "…the battle of the great day of God Almighty… The date of the close of that "battle" is definitely marked in Scripture as October 1914. It is already in progress, its beginning dating from October, 1874." [70]
1915 John Chilembwe This Baptist educator and leader of a rebellion in Nyasaland predicted the Millennium would begin this year. [65]
1916 Bible Student movement World War I would terminate in Armageddon and the rapture of the "saints". [71]
1918 Bible Student movement Another prediction of the end from the Bible Student movement. [62]
1920 Bible Student movement In 1918, Christendom would go down as a system to oblivion and be succeeded by revolutionary governments. God would "destroy the churches wholesale and the church members by the millions." Church members would "perish by the sword of war, revolution and anarchy." The dead would lie unburied. In 1920 all earthly governments would disappear, with worldwide anarchy prevailing. [72]
1925 Joseph F. Rutherford, Bible Student movement ...we may expect 1925 to witness the return of these faithful men of Israel from the condition of death, being resurrected and fully restored to perfect humanity and made the visible, legal representatives of the new order of things on earth." [73]
1925, Feb 13 Margaret Rowen According to this Seventh-day Adventist the angel Gabriel appeared before her in a vision and told her that the world would end at midnight on this date. [74]
1935, Sep Wilbur Glenn Voliva This evangelist announced that "the world is going to go 'puff' and disappear in September, 1935. [75]
1936 Herbert W. Armstrong The founder of the Worldwide Church of God told members of his church that the Rapture was to take place in 1936, and that only they would saved. After the prophecy failed, he changed the date three more times. [76]
1941 Jehovah's Witnesses Another prediction of the end from the Jehovah's Witnesses, which branched from the Bible Student movement. [77]
1943 Herbert W. Armstrong The first of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 prediction failed to come true. [76]
1947 John Ballou Newbrough The author of Oahspe: A New Bible foresaw the destruction of all nations and the beginning of post-apocalyptic anarchy in this year. [64]
1954, Dec 21 Dorothy Martin The world was to be destroyed by terrible flooding on this date, claimed this leader of a UFO cult called Brotherhood of the Seven Rays. The fallout of the group after the prediction failed was the basis for the 1956 book When Prophecy Fails. [78]
1959, April 22 Florence Houteff Believing that the end of time was imminent, Mrs. Houteff and her council began a campaign to evangelize across the U.S., Canada, the West Indies and western Asia. The campaign included publicity events such as equipping cars with signs that read, "Hear Ye The Rod," a Biblical reference (Micah 6:9) to "The Shepherd's Rod" Message. The cars also were outfitted with loudspeakers to broadcast the Rod message to passersby. [79]
1962, Feb 4 Jeanne Dixon This psychic predicted a planetary alignment on this day was to bring destruction to the world. [80]
1967 Jim Jones The founder of the Peoples Temple stated he had visions that a nuclear holocaust was to take place in 1967. [81]
1967, Aug 20 George Van Tassel This day would mark the beginning of the third woe of the Apocalypse, during which the southeastern US would be destroyed by a Soviet nuclear attack, according to this UFO prophet, who claimed to have channeled an alien named Ashtar. [82]
1969 Charles Manson Manson predicted that an apocalyptic race war would occur in 1969 and ordered the Tate-LaBianca murders in an attempt to bring it about. [83]
1969, Aug 9 George Williams The founder of the Church of the Firstborn predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day. [84]
1972 Herbert W. Armstrong The second of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 and 1943 predictions failed to come true. [76]
1973, Jan 11-21 David Berg Berg, the leader of Children of God predicted that there would be a colossal doomsday event heralded by Comet Kohoutek. [85][86]
1975 Herbert W. Armstrong Armstrong's fourth and final false prediction. [76]
Jehovah's Witnesses In 1966 Jehovah's Witnesses estimated it would be 6000 years since man's creation in the fall of 1975 and it would be "appropriate" for Christ's thousand-year reign to begin at that time. These claims were repeated throughout the late 1960s and in 1974 they reaffirmed there was just a short time remaining before "the wicked world's end". [87]
1977 John Wroe The founder of the Christian Israelite Church predicted this year for Armageddon to occur. [64]
William M. Branham This Christian minister predicted the Rapture would occur no later than 1977. [88]
1980 Leland Jensen In 1978 Jensen predicted that there would be a nuclear disaster in 1980, followed by two decades of conflict, culminating in God's Kingdom being established on earth. [89]
1980s Hal Lindsey Lindsey book The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon stated ""the decade of the 1980s could very well be the last decade of history as we know it" and that the U.S. could be "destroyed by a surprise Soviet nuclear attack.". The book strongly suggests that the 1980s would see the biblical events of tribulation and end times come to pass. [90]
1981 Chuck Smith The founder of Calvary Chapel predicted the generation of 1948 would be the last generation, and that the world would end by 1981 at the latest. [91][92]
1982, Mar 10 John Gribbin, Stephen Plagemann Stated in their book The Jupiter Effect that combined gravitational forces of lined up planets were supposed to bring the end of the world on this day. [93]
1982, Jun 21 Benjamin Creme Creme took out an ad in the Los Angeles stating the Second Coming would occur in June 1982 with the Maitreya announcing it on worldwide television. [94]
1982, Oct/Nov Pat Robertson In late 1976 Robertson predicted that the end of the world was coming in October or November 1982. [95]
1984, Oct 2 Jehovah's Witnesses Another prediction of the end from the Jehovah's Witnesses. [96]
1985 Lester Sumrall This minister predicted the end in this year, even writing a book about it entitled I Predict 1985. [97]
1987–1988 Noah Hutchings, The president of the Southwest Radio Church suggested that the Rapture would take place "possibly in 1987 or 1988." [98]
1987, Apr 29 Leland Jensen Jensen predicted that Halley's Comet would be pulled into Earth's orbit on April 29, 1988, causing widespread destruction. [99]
1987, Aug 17 José Argüelles Argüelles claimed that Armageddon would take place unless 144,000 people gathered in certain places in the world in order to "resonate in harmony" on this day. [100]
1988 Hal Lindsey Lindsey suggested that the Rapture would take this year, reasoning that it was 40 years (one Biblical generation) after Israel gained statehood. [101]
1988, Sep/Oct Edgar C. Whisenant Whisenant predicted in his book 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in 1988 that the Rapture of the Christian Church would occur between 11 and 13 September 1988. After his September predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to October 3. [62][102]
1989, Sep 30 Edgar C. Whisenant After all his 1988 predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to this day. [62]
1990, Apr 23 Elizabeth Clare Prophet Prophet predicted a nuclear war would start on this day, with the world ending 12 years later, leading her followers to stockpile a shelter with supplies and weapons. Later, after Prophet's prediction did not come to pass and she was diagnosed with epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease. [103][104]
1991 Louis Farrakhan The leader of the Nation of Islam declared that the Gulf War would be the "War of Armageddon which is the final war." [105]
1992, Sep 28 Rollen Stewart This born-again Christian predicted the Rapture would take place on this day. [106]
1992, Oct 28 Lee Jang Rim Rim, the leader of the Dami Mission in Seoul, predicted the Rapture on this day. South Korean officials took elaborate precautions against a mass suicide, posting 1,500 riot officers to monitor about a thousand followers who had gathered in the group's headquarters to await the Rapture. Their efforts were successful, although four group members had committed suicide in previous days. [107]
1993 David Berg Berg predicted the tribulation would start in 1989 and that the Second Coming would take place in 1993. [108]
1994, May 2 Neal Chase This Bahá'í sect leader predicted that New York would be destroyed by a nuclear bomb on March 23, 1994, and the Battle of Armageddon would take place 40 days later. [109]
1994, Sep/Oct Harold Camping Camping predicted the Rapture would occur on September 6, 1994. When it failed to occur he revised the date to September 29 and then to October 2. [110][111]
1995, Mar 31 Harold Camping Camping's fourth predicted date for the end. This would be Camping's last prediction until 2011. [111]
1996, Dec 17 Sheldon Nidle California psychic Sheldon Nidle predicted that the world would end on this date, with the arrival of 16 million space ships and a host of angels. [112]
1997, Mar 26 Marshall Applewhite Applewhite, leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, claimed that a spacecraft was trailing the Comet Hale-Bopp and argued that suicide was "the only way to evacuate this Earth" so that the cult members' souls could board the supposed craft and be taken to another "level of existence above human". Applewhite and 38 of his followers committed mass suicide. [113]
1997, Oct 23 James Ussher This 17th-century Irish Archbishop predicted this date to be 6000 years since Creation, and therefore the end of the world. [114]
1998, Mar 31 Hon-Ming Chen Hon-Ming Chen, leader of the Taiwanese cult God's Salvation Church, or Chen Tao - "The True Way" - claimed that God would come to Earth in a flying saucer at 10:00 am on this date. Moreover, God would have the same physical appearance as Chen himself. On March 25, God was to appear on Channel 18 on every TV set in the US. Chen chose to base his cult in Garland, Texas, because he thought it sounded like "God's Land." [115]
1999 Seventh-day Adventists Some literature distributed by Seventh Day Adventists predicted the end in this year. [116]
Charles Berlitz This linguist predicted the end would occur in this year. He did not predict how it would occur, stating it may involve nuclear devastation, asteroid impact, pole shift or other earth changes. [117]
1999, Jul Nostradamus A prediction attributed to Nostradamus stating the "King of Terror" would come from the sky in "1999 and seven months" led to fears of the end. [118]
1999, Aug 18 The Amazing Criswell The predicted date of the end of the world, according to this psychic well known for false predictions. [119]
1999, Dec 31 Hon-Ming Chen Hon-Ming Chen's cult God's Salvation Church, now relocated to upstate New York, preached that a nuclear holocaust would destroy Europe and Asia sometime between October 1 and December 31, 1999. [120]
'Before' 2000 Hal Lindsey After his 1980's predictions failed to come true, Lindsay published the book Planet Earth 2000 A.D. in 1994, which stated that Christians should not plan to still be on earth by the year 2000. [121]
James Gordon Lindsay This preacher predicted the tribulation would begin before the year 2000. [122]
Texe Marrs This conspiracy theorist stated that the last days could "wrap up by the year 2000." [123]
Timothy Dwight IV This President of Yale University foresaw the Millennium starting by 2000. [124]
Jehovah's Witnesses In 1971, and again in 1984, the Jehovah's Witnesses stated the end would be before the end of the 20th century. [125][126]
2000 - c. Peter Olivi This 13th-century theologian wrote that the Antichrist would come to power between 1300 and 1340, and the Last Judgement would take place around 2000. [127]
Helena Blavatsky The founder of Theosophy foresaw the end of the world in this year. [128]
Isaac Newton Newton predicted that Christ's Millennium would begin in the year 2000 in his book Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. [129]
Ruth Montgomery This self-described Christian psychic predicted the Earth's axis would shift and the Antichrist would reveal himself in this year. [130]
Edgar Cayce This psychic predicted the Second Coming would occur this year. [131]
Sun Myung Moon The founder of the Unification Church predicted the Kingdom of Heaven would be established in this year. [132]
Ed Dobson This pastor predicted the end would occur in his book The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000. [133]
Lester Sumrall This minister predicted the end in his book I Predict 2000. [134]
Jonathan Edwards This 18th-century preacher predicted that Christ's thousand-year reign would begin in this year. [135]
2000, Jan 1 Various Predictions of a Y2K computer bug were to crash many computers and would malfunction causing major catastrophes worldwide and that society would cease to function. Year 2000 problem
Credonia Mwerinde, Joseph Kibweteere An estimated 778 followers of this Ugandan religious movement perished in a devastating fire and a series of poisonings and killings that were either a group suicide or an orchestrated mass murder by group leaders after their predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about. [136]
Jerry Falwell Falwell foresaw God pouring out his judgement on the world on this day. [137]
Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins These Christian authors stated the Y2K bug would trigger global economic chaos, which the Antichrist would use to rise to power. As the date approached however they changed their minds. [138]
2000, April 6 James Harmston The leader of the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day. [139]
2000, May 5 Nuwaubian Nation This movement claimed that the planetary lineup would cause a "star holocaust," pulling the planets toward the sun on this day. [140]
2000, Oct 9 Grant Jeffrey This bible teacher suggested this date as the "probable termination point for the 'last days.'" [141]
2001 Tynetta Muhammad This columnist for the Nation of Islam predicted the end would occur in this year. [142]
2003, May Nancy Lieder Lieder originally predicted the date for the Nibiru collision as May 2003. According to her website, aliens in the Zeta Reticuli star system told her through messages via a brain implant of a planet which would enter our solar system and cause a pole shift on earth that would destroy most of humanity. [143]
2003, Nov 29 Aum Shinrikyo This Japanese cult predicted the world would be destroyed by a nuclear war between October 30 and November 29, 2003. [144]
2007, Apr 29 Pat Robertson In his 1990 book The New Millennium, Robertson suggests this date as the day of Earth's destruction. [145]
2008, Sep 10 - c. Various A number of groups claimed that activation of the Large Hadron Collider experiment would bring about the end of the world through the production of planet-eating micro black holes or strangelets. Similar claims were made about 2010, March 30, when the collider reached maximum energy. See safety of particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. [146]
2010 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn This magic order predicted the world would end in this year. [147]
2011, May 21 Harold Camping Camping predicted that the Rapture and devastating earthquakes would occur on May 21, 2011 with God taking approximately 3% of the world's population into Heaven, and that the end of the world would occur five months later on October 21. 2011 end times prediction
2011, Aug–Oct Various There were fears amongst the public that Comet Elenin travelling almost directly between Earth and the Sun would cause disturbances to the Earth's crust, causing massive earthquakes and tidal waves. Others predicted that Elenin would collide with Earth on October 16. Scientists tried to calm fears by stating that none of these events were possible. [148]
2011, Sep 29 Ronald Weinland Ronald Weinland stated Jesus Christ would return on this day. He prophesied nuclear explosions in U.S. port cities by July of 2008 as the blowing of the Second Trumpet of Revelation. He later changed the date for the return of Jesus Christ to May 27, 2012. [149]

[150] [151]
2011, Oct 21 Harold Camping When his original date failed to come about, Camping revised his prediction and said that on May 21, a "Spiritual Judgment" took place, and that both the physical Rapture and the end of the world would occur on October 21, 2011. 2011 end times prediction
2012, May 27 Ronald Weinland Ronald Weinland stated Jesus Christ would return and the world would end on this day. [152]
Future
Date (CE) Claimant Description Reference(s)
2012, Dec 20-23
(particularly Dec 21) Various Several scenarios for the end of the world including galactic alignment, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, a geomagnetic reversal, nuclear war, collision with Nibiru or some other interplanetary object, alien invasion or the Earth being destroyed by a giant supernova. David Morrison and other scientists from NASA, along with expert archeologists, and even the Mayans themselves have stated that none of those events are possible. 2012 phenomenon
2020–2037 Jeane Dixon This psychic claimed that the Armageddon would take place in 2020 and Jesus would return to defeat the unholy Trinity of the Antichrist, Satan and the False prophet between 2020 and 2037. Dixon previously predicted the world would end on February 4, 1962. [153]
2060 Isaac Newton The end time, according to Isaac Newton's calculations from the Book of Revelations and the Book of Daniel in the Holy Bible. [154]
2240 Talmud, Orthodox Judaism According to an opinion in the Talmud and mainstream Orthodox Judaism, the Messiah should come within 6000 years from the creation of Adam, and the world could possibly be destroyed 1000 years later. This would put the beginning of the period of desolation in the year 2240 AD and the end of the period of desolation in the year 3240 AD. This is not strictly an "end of the world" scenario as it is cyclical in nature. The nature of the period of desolation is controversial and no one theory is binding. Year 6000
2280 Rashad Khalifa According to Rashad Khalifa's research on the Quran Code, the world will end in this year. [155]
3797 Nostradamus In his preface, Nostradamus stated that his prophecies ended in this year. Some have suggested[weasel words] that this implies the end of the world beyond this point. [156]
c. 500,000,000 James Kasting The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will drop as to make Earth unhabitable. [157]
c. 4,000,000,000 Various scientists The Andromeda–Milky Way collision is a predicted galaxy collision that will take place in approximately 4 billion years' time between the two largest galaxies in the Local Group—the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way, which contains the Solar System and Earth. [158][159][160]
c. 5,000,000,000 Various scientists The end of our Sun's current phase of development, after which it will swell into a red giant, either swallowing the Earth or at least completely scorching it. It is widely accepted by the scientific community that the earth will be destroyed around this time. However, as the Sun grows gradually hotter (over millions of years), the Earth may become too hot for life in only a billion years' time. [157][161]
10100 years. Various scientists The heat death of the universe is a suggested ultimate fate of the universe, in which the universe has diminished to a state of no thermodynamic free energy and therefore can no longer sustain motion or life.
from wikipedia
Your neighbor is nuts or a clown.

sycamorex 08-24-2012 02:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by whizje (Post 4763377)
Your neighbor is nuts or a clown.

No, he doesn't take it seriously either (hopefully):)

animeresistance 08-24-2012 04:17 PM

It will be ready when it's ready.

Besides Slackware 14 is RC2, not a stable one or official one, so, you can't rush things.

So take a lemonade, sit on your couch and enjoy the actual version of slackware (13.37), until 14 comes out.

Relax and enjoy :)

brianL 08-24-2012 04:24 PM

No matter when the World ends, "Bob" will save all True Slackers.
Praise "Bob"!

Anonymo 08-24-2012 04:47 PM

We're skipping to Slackware 17

WoefulNarvik 08-24-2012 07:59 PM

Come on, what's the holdup? Are you slacking Patrick?!? :D Hah, I kill me.

fogpipe 08-24-2012 08:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H (Post 4763095)
I wanna know when Slackware 666.0 will be released, as well as Slackware 99999999999999999999.0.

Dude! that is such a good idea. 13.37 was a really cool version # and my 13.37 boot screen will not be given up till it is pried from my cold dead hands, but if i had to give it up to install version 666, i think i would be ok with that :)

Actually i would feel sort of ok with version numbers 23 and 42 as well.

mrclisdue 08-25-2012 12:19 AM

FACT!!!!!

I read in another thread that PV is secretly working on a slack version that makes use of systemd, and it's called:

(drum roll)...................

FrankenSlack

Remember, it's a secret.

mmmmm...systemd....

ReaperX7 08-25-2012 03:25 AM

The next version should be labeled as Roman Numerals and carry a uncommon tag like:

Slackware XV Special Edition

sycamorex 08-25-2012 03:30 AM

Or binary: Slackware 1110

red_fire 08-25-2012 04:04 AM

How about Slackware Reboot when the number gets too big?? :DD

turtleli 08-25-2012 04:29 AM

How about Slackware 5.0? Fill in the missing numbers...

solarfields 08-25-2012 05:14 AM

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heh ;)

Anonymo 08-25-2012 11:54 AM

We're rebooting the whole thing

Slackware Begins
Darkstar
Darkstar Rises

red_fire 08-26-2012 03:12 AM

inject Joker program into Darkstar

NyteOwl 08-26-2012 03:14 PM

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Probably in 42 Firefox releases from now.
You mean next week?

jjthomas 08-28-2012 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by whizje (Post 4763377)
End of the world predictions from wikipedia

Not going to quote the whole thing. But, it was also suppose to end in the Mid 70's. I don't remember much from my high school years, but I remember that the world was suppose to end in 74.

I asked my 8 ball, "When will Slackware 15 be released?" It said "Ask again."

So I did. It replied "Yes."

Guess that about covers it.

-JJ

damgar 08-28-2012 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by jjthomas (Post 4766330)
So I did. It replied "Yes."

Guess that about covers it.

-JJ

HA!

mrascii 08-28-2012 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Anonymo (Post 4763491)
We're skipping to Slackware 17

+1

It's about time for another version jump. :)

Anyone else remember the jump from Slackware 4 to Slackware 7?

DNA
AKA mrascii

brianL 08-28-2012 04:32 PM

Slackware Infinity - then Pat never needs to change the release number again.

Didier Spaier 08-28-2012 04:54 PM

Brian, as we all know that Slackware is rock solid, do you mean that Pat is in fact Sisyphus under another name and that during -current's brewing we can watch him climbing the hill again?

ottavio 08-28-2012 04:58 PM

I am pretty sure from now on Slackware releases will be synchronized with Firefox releases. For the record FF is at its 15th release today! Crazy or not?

brianL 08-28-2012 04:59 PM

Well, we could have Infinity, Infinity + 1, Infinity + n...Might be better,

josiah 08-28-2012 05:14 PM

All this talk on upcoming versions. I'm still waiting for 5.0.

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Originally Posted by brianL (Post 4766810)
Slackware Infinity - then Pat never needs to change the release number again.

I thought we already have that... it's called -current.

sycamorex 08-29-2012 04:59 AM

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I thought we already have that... it's called -current.
That's for testing. For stable we could use the following convention:

- Slackware 13.37 / Slackware64 13.37
- Slackware SR (Stable Release) / Slackware64 Stable Release
- Slackware YASR (Yet Another Stable Release)
- Slackware ESR (Extremely Stable Release)
- Slackware ORATESRR (One Release After The Extremely Stable Release Release)
- Slackware MSTTOSRR (More Stable Than The Original Stable Release Release)
- Slackware MAR (Much Anticipated Release)
- Slackware W(AS)R (Wonderful (And Stable) Release)



Transparent and clean.

brianL 08-29-2012 05:07 AM

Only two names ever needed:
Slackware TheOneAfterTheOneBefore (stable)
Slackware TheOneTryingStuffThatMightGoIntoTheNextOneAfterTheOneBefore (current)

ponce 08-29-2012 05:18 AM

TOTSTMGITNATOB is nice!

enine 08-29-2012 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by brianL (Post 4766828)
Well, we could have Infinity, Infinity + 1, Infinity + n...Might be better,

To infinity... and beyond!

enine 08-29-2012 06:41 AM

How about
Slackware-current
Slackware-AlmostButNotQuiteEntirelyUnlikeCurrent

brianL 08-29-2012 06:56 AM

Debian has three branches/versions/whatever, so why not Slackware?
Debian stable == Slackware stable
Debian testing == Slackware current
Debian experimental == Slackware OMGWTFHasHappenedNow!?!?!?

sycamorex 08-29-2012 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by brianL (Post 4767290)
Debian has three branches/versions/whatever, so why not Slackware?
Debian stable == Slackware stable
Debian testing == Slackware current
Debian experimental == Slackware OMGWTFHasHappenedNow!?!?!?

or even:

Slackware stable
Slackware current
Slackware OMGWTFHasHappenedNow!?!?!?
Slackware FeelsLikeWindows

brianL 08-29-2012 07:13 AM

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Slackware FeelsLikeWindows
You can get that by running the BSOD screensaver.

enine 08-29-2012 07:20 AM

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Originally Posted by sycamorex (Post 4767294)
Slackware FeelsLikeWindows

Please no

/forced to use windows at work

brianL 08-29-2012 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by enine (Post 4767306)
Please no

/forced to use windows at work

Resign. :)

sycamorex 08-29-2012 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by enine (Post 4767306)
Please no

/forced to use windows at work

So am I:(

brianL 08-29-2012 08:06 AM

Resign!!! :)

Didier Spaier 08-29-2012 08:14 AM

Attention all posters in this thread.

Please note that post #50 is reserved to the OP :cool:

cLOWNgOD 07-28-2021 12:33 PM

To WHIZJE (Post #13)
 
Looks like we're WILDLY off topic here, but just to set the record straight.. Regarding your post:
"1984, Oct 2 Jehovah's Witnesses Another prediction of the end from the Jehovah's Witnesses. [96]" Do you have any documentation for this? Last time I checked Matthew 24:36 was in play - "“But as for that day and hour no one knows it—not even the angels in heaven[a]—except the Father alone."


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