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   Chris Elvidge to John Smith   
   Re: No more updates for 14.2?   
   14 Jul 21 15:56:10   
   
   From: chris@mshome.net   
      
   On 13/07/2021 08:09 pm, John Smith wrote:   
   > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 17:52:27 +0000, Lew Pitcher wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 17:43:13 +0000, John Smith wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> There have been no updates to 14.2 ever since mention was made in   
   >>> current that current is 15.0 alpha. Slackbuilds stopped providing   
   >>> updates for their packages at about the same time.   
   >>>   
   >>> 	Has 14.2 become abandonware, before its successor is released?   
   >>   
   >> The last update notices that I received were issued on June 7, 2021 for   
   >> polkit-0.113-i586-3_slack14.2 and httpd-2.4.48-i586-1_slack14.2   
   >>   
   >> The mirror sites that I use had both of these updates available by June   
   >> 9,   
   >> along with an unannounced libX11-1.7.2 update.   
   >>   
   >> Nothing since then, though, and I check the mirrors daily.   
   >   
   > 	Thanks. Yes, that's my experience as well. The thing is, some web   
   > sites already refusing to work with the version of Firefox in 14.2. I can   
   > use chromium, but I am just concerned that other packages in 14.2 are   
   > quickly becoming obsolete as we speak. And with no ETA for 15.0...   
   >   
      
   Is it worth testing Palemoon?   
   http://repo.khronosschoty.org/Slackware/Pale-Moon/   
      
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   Chris Elvidge   
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