Well, that doesn't sound very low or old. When I hear "old" I'm thinking stuff that came out 20-30 years ago. This very (backup) laptop I'm on has i5 @ 1.7GHz, 4GB RAM and a self installed 250GB sata SSD, otherwise it'd have some rusty hd. Not old, but surely not new.

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Agreed... This desktop is about 11 or 12 years old, laptop over there ~~~~~~> is an old Gateway, estimating 20 years old, Wifes laptop is the most recent good deal on a refurbished HP i3. All run Slackware just fine, although the old Gateway is basically just for browsing and tinkering with.....

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Actually it's a passion topic of mine, so you shouldn't get me started... But I believe in using or letting others use (don't throw away, donate) old hardware, and not throwing away functioning hardware just because it's "old". Refurbishing and combining "old" hardware can be useful too. All that hardware can be used by or useful to someone.

Instead of trash piling old hardware in Africa, we could send it to African countries(or elsewhere) in useful condition and let them use it if they want.

Doesn't even have to be that, even inside rich and poor countries there are differences, hardware that someone will no longer use can be useful to someone else. And it can also be made useful, by schools for example (even as part of their education).

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^^^^ Like minds, good to hear zeebra!

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My oldest laptop a T410 Thinkpad has an i5 2.40 GHz CPU with 4 GB RAM and a HDD. That unit is running FreeBSD 13.0. Agreed. Not that old. I've become spoiled by units that have a SSD.

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Well yah, SSD is a must. I don't think I've used an HD in a computer since 2010. I was an early adopter before that as well, and I have nothing but positive to report about it thus far. Compared to HD's none of them have failed yet, while my HD's used to fail all the time. Such a relief.

Perhaps I'll even install Slackware 15 on my old 30GB OCZ

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And here we go with -15.0 and -current diverging from each other. ;-)

http://mirrors.kernel.org/slackware/.../ChangeLog.txt contains 3 security fixes.

http://mirrors.kernel.org/slackware/.../ChangeLog.txt contains those security fixes _PLUS_ a TON of upgrades.

Change of plan, time to switch back to -current

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Since I have decided to 'lock-in' at v15.0 .... I'll be staying with kernel version.....

Linux glennmcc-i7.net 5.15.19 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 2 01:50:51 CST 2022 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

And _not_ be taking this upgrade from -current.

a/kernel-huge-5.16.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.16.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.16.8-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.

Pfff, nobody is going to stick around with us 15'ers?

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Some (hands up, here!) of us are waiting till SBo migrates to 15.0 to move off of 14.2 .... when that happens, I'll join with zeebra and company ...


For the record, I'm looking forward to it

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You should, it's great!

So far.. And alot more greatness to explore yet! But "first impressions" are fantastic.

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Change of plan.

Decided it would be a good idea to keep _one_ of my systems on slackwar64-current.
____________________________________________________________________________________________

Welcome to Linux 5.16.8 x86_64 (tty1)
glennmcc-i7 login: root
Password:
Last login: Thu Feb 10 23:28:22 on tty3
Linux 5.16.8.

Shaw's Principle:
Build a system that even a fool can use,
and only a fool will want to use it.

root@glennmcc-i7:~# uname -a
Linux glennmcc-i7.net 5.16.8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 9 15:21:08 CST 2022 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Every machine in the house is on 15.0 now (including my girlfriend's laptop with an out-of-tree wifi module), but I'm keeping a -current VM for SlackBuilds.

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-current is like booze, takes will to get off of it once used to use it...

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