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For me, very stable. If you're unlucky enough to be bitten by kernel problems/lockups with the 5.10.x series, then probably not so much. Then again, 5.11.x is available in /testing and I've read here that it's sorted out some people's issues.
Is there any mass rebuild in the road to the release?
I don't think any more mass rebuilds are planned. See the following changelog (my emphasis in bold):
Code:
Mon Feb 15 19:23:44 UTC 2021
Here we go again... upgraded to glibc-2.33 and one last mass rebuild for
Slackware 15.0. The only packages upgraded in this batch are glibc and the
kernels - everything else is just a rebuild against the new glibc. Not
rebuilt in this batch: devs (best to just leave this alone), glibc-zoneinfo,
kernel-firmware, rust, linux-faqs, linux-howtos, aspell-en, mozilla-firefox,
mozilla-thunderbird, and seamonkey. There's a new Rust compiler but Firefox
and Thunderbird will need to be patched to use it, so we'll hold off on
those until they're ready for the new Rust either with patches or new
upstream releases. Until we have that and a few more scheduled upgrades I'm
not quite ready to call this beta yet, but you can call it 15.0-alpha1. :-)
Cheers!
Having NVidia problems with X both kde/plasma and xfce and both proprietary and nouveau drivers. HDMI does not wake up from +dpms, requiring reboot. xset s off and xset -dpms along with activating xscreensaver is a workaround. I thought the nvidia-persistenced would help but no joy.
Current has been very stable for me over the past year and continues to be so. I ought to point out that my current does not include kde, xfce, and e. So I can't speak for a full install.
Quite stable, but there is still enough work to be done.
This is due to the small number of developers in the team and the very large number of problems/improvements to be solved.
For the past week I have been diligently testing updating 14.2 to Current. About half the time on one system I get some kind of system crash dump when performing a three finger salute to reboot. No conclusions at this time. Could very well be PEBKAC since I'm still testing.
For the past week I have been diligently testing updating 14.2 to Current. About half the time on one system I get some kind of system crash dump when performing a three finger salute to reboot. No conclusions at this time. Could very well be PEBKAC since I'm still testing.
Thanks for your service to the community in this area. It could be PEBKAK; it's hard to say.
I'll be very interested to read the official documentation on how to upgrade to 15.0. There are many big changes from 14.2------>15.0. I have done upgrades to -current from 14.2, but, that was quite a while ago. These days it's just easier for me to do a clean install of Slackware64-current and then bring in my back-ups.
I'd say there is no reason not to use it if you want to have Slackware back. If you get a current -current ISO, since we're close to a release, it should be easy to keep up with package upgrades and you'll just roll right into the final. As said, there are no more planned rebuilds (and there should be no reason to at this stage). (and that would put me off too, I didn't do a new install I was planning for another box until after that was announced)
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