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Re: New Slackware version

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On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:

> noel decreed, Read These Runes!:
>> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:30:21 +0200, Doug713705 wrote:
>>
>>> Le 23-08-2015, Michael Black nous expliquait dans alt.os.linux.slackware
>>> (<alpine.LNX.2.02.1508230946400.14860@darkstar.example.org>) :
>>>
>>>> making Slackware look like it's not been updated in a long time.
>>>
>>> Who cares ? ;-)
>>
>> +1
>>
>>  if I want upgrades every 3 f'n months  i'll go use fuckbuntu or fedora
>> I enjoy the stable by-default LTS that is every slackware release.
>
> I think Pat does, kinda.  That was his justification to jump from like 4
> to 7 or whatever it was way back then... Ah! (Wiki)
>
WHich is why I brought it up.  Since it did happen, I suspect it can 
happen again.

    Michael

> In 1999, Slackware's release number jumped from 4 to 7. Patrick
> Volkerding explained this as a marketing effort to show that Slackware
> was as up-to-date as other Linux distributions, many of which had
> release numbers of 6 at the time, and Volkerding expected them to reach
> version 7 by the time of the jump.
>
>
> Rinaldi
> -- 
> One Page Principle:
> 	A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch
> paper cannot be understood.
> 		-- Mark Ardis
>

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    Re: New Slackware version Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-23 09:49 -0400
      Re: New Slackware version Doug713705 <doug.letough@free.fr> - 2015-08-24 18:30 +0200
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