From: deletethis@invalid.lan   
      
   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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   Breakage, mostly on desktops, servers, not so much, I ran all of our smtp   
   servers on -current for 18 months before 15.0 was eventually released,   
   but being behind hardware load balancer if they fell over (staggered   
   updates), and throw the old OS drives back in, eventually ran every   
   single server including web servers (we had to or fail PCI DSS   
   compliance) on -current for about 12 months or just over, nothing missed   
   a beat.   
      
      
   Im considering doing the same again now since I dont expect 15.1 out any   
   year soon, and I am open to a complete OS change, we already had to move   
   a couple services to debian   
      
      
   > 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.   
      
   being supported and being "current" (eg: libs wise) are two entirely   
   different things.   
      
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