According to http://slackblogs.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/slackware-142-beta-2-announced.html we can probably expect slackware 14.2 to come along soon.

 

With this should come a major bump in just about every package given 14.1 is almost 15 months old as I type this.

 

Knowing our luck it will be released just after unRAID 6.2

Here's to hoping unraid 6.2 soon edition is based on a different distro base than Slackware.

I think LT considers the obscurity of slackware to be a feature and I'm not entirely sure I disagree. It keeps clueless users from trying stuff they might find on the internet for a more popular distro.

I think it's more about a very lightweight unobtrusive OS. It's easier to install only what you need without a boat load of other dependencies.

With docker and virtual machines I dont really care what the baseOS is any more other than the kernel and core packages are kept up to date. In that respect I think Slackware is still a very sound choice.

 

What I do hope though is that behind the scenes we are keeping testing on current Slackware rolling so that when 14.2 does come out there isnt a multi month delay getting it.

What I do hope though is that behind the scenes we are keeping testing on current Slackware rolling so that when 14.2 does come out there isnt a multi month delay getting it.

 

Genuinely curious here, why is that important?  I read the release notes you linked (thanks!) and we are already running a pretty recent kernel (right?), PHP 5.6.18, openssl 1.0.1r, etc.  As long as LT can update packages when there are security issues, what is the rush to get to Slackware 14.2?

All the stuff you mention have been upgraded at extra effort to LT manually. The 14.2 bump does this for the entire rest of the platform with the only burden being testing.

 

There is no urgency since Slackware are not EOLing any their recent OS however by moving to 14.2 we instantly fulfill a bunch of feature requests e.g, mc, tmux

 

If LT want to bring packages manually up to date at each request and stick with an older 14.1 the net result will be the same but historically apart from the big requests all the other have been ignored. Since Slackware is already a slow to release which we also lag behind with this means some packages we ship are very old. e.g. mc is two and half years out of date

 

 

 

 

Has anyone noticed that the new unRAID 6.2 Beta's are based on Slackware 14.2?

 

How will this impact the existing plugins?

 

Will, for example, NerdPack need to release new 14.2 versions of the packages?