From: lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca   
      
   On Sun, 02 Nov 2025 12:38:18 +0000, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 02 Nov 2025 09:36:16 +1000, noel wrote:   
   >> Anyone at this point contemplating an OS upgrade, should be looking at   
   >> -current and not a near three year old release   
   >   
   > Anyone willing to be a long term beta tester should consider current for   
   > non critical machines which you do not depend upon too much.   
      
   Agreed, I'd never upgrade to the moving target of -current. Pat doesn't   
   necessarily guarantee the stability of -current; it is a "work in progress".   
      
   > The fact that Lew is still sticking to 14.2 indicates a fear that an   
   > upgrade would break something important. On current there is a risk that   
   > breaking updates can come any day.   
      
   Good point, and there is a bit of that. But, moreover, I don't have the   
   time, at the moment, to upgrade my 3 Slackware 14.2 systems, two of which   
   are 24/7 operations (one handling my internet presence, along with some   
   ancillary duties, and the other handling my telephone system).   
      
   I have an upgrade process that takes some of the pain out of a full   
   upgrade, but it takes a bit of setup time, and a lot of after-install   
   adjustments, for each system.   
      
   > Yes, it was more than three years since  Slackware 15.0 was released   
   > (2022-02-03), but it is still a supported version of Slackware which gets   
   > security updates and bug fixes. However, if you want to run Slackware   
   > 15.0 on some newer hardware you might need to replace the longterm 5.15   
   > kernel.   
      
   In fact, I've installed the kernel from Slackware 15.0 on one of my   
   Slackware 14.2 systems, just because of that point. And, I have it   
   in the cards to upgrade my systems, so long as I can get a week or   
   so of uninterrupted time to do so.   
      
      
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   Lew Pitcher   
   "In Skills We Trust"   
   Not LLM output - I'm just like this.   
      
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