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From: Mikhail Zotov on 7 Oct 2009 14:06
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:05:58 -0700
Rich Grise <richgrise(a)example.net> wrote:

> I'm not an upgrade-for-upgrade's-sake kind of guy - more like, if-it
> ain't-broke,-don't-fix-it.
>
> So, what would Slack 13 give me that Slack 11. doesn't have, besides the
> headaches of IPV6 and that whole new kernel?

There are some programs around that cannot be compiled with gcc-3.x,
which shipped with Slack-11.0, but need gcc-4.x (available in releases
>=12.0). IMHO, there's hardly any reason to upgrade if you don't use
any such program, release 11.0 suits you fine and you are not curious
about "what's then?". I have a number of boxes that run Slack-10.0 and
10.1 and one running Slack-8.1 and I am not going to upgrade them. But
I do also have a box with -current ;-)

Regards,
Mikhail

From: Rich Grise on 12 Oct 2009 19:20
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:05:58 -0700, Rich Grise wrote:

> I'm not an upgrade-for-upgrade's-sake kind of guy - more like, if-it
> ain't-broke,-don't-fix-it.
>
> So, what would Slack 13 give me that Slack 11. doesn't have, besides the
> headaches of IPV6 and that whole new kernel?

Thanks to all for their many answers; it seems the "consesus" is,
"if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

I can play youtube schtuff with seamonkey, and all my pornos still
work. >:->

So as long as I'm happy with what I've got, I'm happy. :-) :-) :-)

Dunno what I'm going to do when^H^H^H^Hif my Ebay box goes south, however.
=:-O

Thanks!
Rich

From: Zootal on 12 Oct 2009 21:38

"Rich Grise" <richgrise(a)example.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2009.10.12.23.20.18.110761(a)example.net...
> On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:05:58 -0700, Rich Grise wrote:
>
>> I'm not an upgrade-for-upgrade's-sake kind of guy - more like, if-it
>> ain't-broke,-don't-fix-it.
>>
>> So, what would Slack 13 give me that Slack 11. doesn't have, besides the
>> headaches of IPV6 and that whole new kernel?
>
> Thanks to all for their many answers; it seems the "consesus" is,
> "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
>
> I can play youtube schtuff with seamonkey, and all my pornos still
> work. >:->
>
> So as long as I'm happy with what I've got, I'm happy. :-) :-) :-)
>
> Dunno what I'm going to do when^H^H^H^Hif my Ebay box goes south, however.
> =:-O
>
> Thanks!
> Rich
>

FWIW - Slack 11 was fairly troublesome on my hardware, due to it being an
older Toshiba laptop. Slack 12.2 is just about perfect - the wireless works
without having to figure out how to get madwifi working, the video works
good out of the box, the sound works first time, etc. Going from Slack 11 to
Slack 12 was the best thing I ever did. Slack 12.2, in my book, is easily
the best version ever. The jury is still out on slack 13 - I'm still annoyed
at them trying to make KDE4 look like Winbloze, and so I'm still getting
used to xfce.


From: Joe on 16 Oct 2009 23:18
Grant wrote on 10/06/09 15:09:

> On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:05:58 -0700, Rich Grise <richgrise(a)example.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm not an upgrade-for-upgrade's-sake kind of guy - more like, if-it
>> ain't-broke,-don't-fix-it.
>>
>> So, what would Slack 13 give me that Slack 11. doesn't have, besides the
>> headaches of IPV6 and that whole new kernel?
>
> Slackware64!!
>
> Ipv6 is easily ignored


IPv6 is good stuff. The only headaches I had with it had to do with my old
crappy DSL modem which didn't support it, not even IPv4to6. Nothing a new DSL
modem couldn't fix.

> Then there's new and improved apps, nb is happy :) Though it's a

> shame PV didn't ship KDE-4.3x instead of 4.2 -- 4.3 is supposed to
> be almost usable.


I'll stick with KDE 3.5 for now. 4.2 isn't usable.
The only bad thing with 3.5 is that Yahoo IM support in kopete is broken. The
fix is only in 4.[23].

-Joe

From: Zootal on 17 Oct 2009 00:45

"Joe" <invalid(a)mailinator.com> wrote in message
news:4AD9379F.4040800(a)mailinator.com...
> Grant wrote on 10/06/09 15:09:
>
>> On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:05:58 -0700, Rich Grise <richgrise(a)example.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not an upgrade-for-upgrade's-sake kind of guy - more like, if-it
>>> ain't-broke,-don't-fix-it.
>>>
>>> So, what would Slack 13 give me that Slack 11. doesn't have, besides the
>>> headaches of IPV6 and that whole new kernel?
>>
>> Slackware64!!
>>
>> Ipv6 is easily ignored
>
>
> IPv6 is good stuff. The only headaches I had with it had to do with my old
> crappy DSL modem which didn't support it, not even IPv4to6. Nothing a new
> DSL
> modem couldn't fix.
>
>> Then there's new and improved apps, nb is happy :) Though it's a
>
>> shame PV didn't ship KDE-4.3x instead of 4.2 -- 4.3 is supposed to
>> be almost usable.
>
>
> I'll stick with KDE 3.5 for now. 4.2 isn't usable.
> The only bad thing with 3.5 is that Yahoo IM support in kopete is broken.
> The
> fix is only in 4.[23].
>
> -Joe
>

Know of any good alternatives that run in KDE 3.5? I tried a few, but they
were either old and klunky, would not compile, or didn't work with Yahoo.


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