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I really want to love Slackware, but I can't bring myself to use a distro that has basically a single person as the maintainer. What happens if Patrick Volkerding gets hit by a bus? That's it, no more patches, no more updates? Really wish Slackware had a team of maintainers.

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It used to be that he had a handful of core people who helped out, but it was never official AFAIK.

I feel the same as you. I used Slackware on my primary machine for about a decade, but the long silence between 14.2 and 15 made me nervous.

To be fair, there has been no “silence,” the stream of updates has been quite lively.

Yes, -current has been moving along. I'm too lazy for rolling release though.

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