On Tue, 10 Sep 2019, Ben Koenig wrote:
Yup. I'm running -current on 2 machines and it kicks my ass every now and then. But these aren't production machines, so it's not a big deal.
Ben, That seems to be common with -current over the years.
One thing I didn't mention is that it is technically possible to re-package the binary RPMs provided by AMD, but I don't know if anyone has done that for slackware yet. I don't suggest taking that on since it is an entire workload in addition to whatever else this machine is doing. That said, I may be able to take a look at it this weekend. It might be as simple as running rpm2tgz over and over, which, if so, I could probably get some packages going for 14.2. Maybe, I'll have to set aside some time to fiddle with it.
If you have fiddle time, and are successful, that would be great. If not, I'll continue with the flaky behavior until 15.0 comes out.
As for 15.0, I honestly think the only reason it's been so long is because of the webstore BS. Keeping the dev team small makes an obvious positive impact on the quality of the distro, but there are downsides :-(
I don't follow the devs on LO or a chat channel so I don't know what's been happening since Robby made the rest of us aware of Pat not receiving the moneies he had been. I dropped my subscription to release DVDs and sent him funds via PayPal. Will continue to do this when 15.0 comes out. Best regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
