If you want something newer, go with -current instead of the stable release. You may encounter issues, but it is a lot more up to date system.
The Slackware stable releases almost never get version upgrades, only upstream security patches. Versions might get upgraded if certain version of a package is declared unmaintained by the upstream developers and a security issue is found, but is not the norm. By the way, the packages on releases as old as 8.1 (released on 2001) are still receiving updates (last for 8.1 was on February 2012)
KDE will stay at 4.5.5 in 13.37, but if you keep your system up to date, you get Firefox 12 (as Firefox only has full releases and not security updates nowadays)
I've been using Opera since 2002, never payed a cent. Yes, at first it has an ad on top of the window, but it was usable and good. The ad was removed in version 8.5, 5 years ago.
some versions in the past were particularily crash-prone. I think 9.64 was the worst. But apart from that, the crashes are so infrequent that I don't mind the whole 'one process per tab' thing. Actually, firefox on Linux crashes a lot more using the exact same flash plugin as Opera
Opera is what it is. Either you like it (like me) or you don't. Its lack of popularity is not due to the lack of extensions (after all, chrome and safari had bigger market share before having extensions themselves).
I prefer it, over any of the others. But it seems there are a lot of bad misconceptions around and that's the biggest problem Opera Software needs to find a way to solve.
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Your answer reminded me of how difficult can some UNIX-related searches be. when I google
man unzip
man find
man sleep
man fsck
and others, I always feel a little dirty...
If you want something newer, go with -current instead of the stable release. You may encounter issues, but it is a lot more up to date system.
The Slackware stable releases almost never get version upgrades, only upstream security patches. Versions might get upgraded if certain version of a package is declared unmaintained by the upstream developers and a security issue is found, but is not the norm. By the way, the packages on releases as old as 8.1 (released on 2001) are still receiving updates (last for 8.1 was on February 2012)
KDE will stay at 4.5.5 in 13.37, but if you keep your system up to date, you get Firefox 12 (as Firefox only has full releases and not security updates nowadays)
well, for me it was. Would crash every now and then for no specific reason. As usual, YMMV.
I've been using Opera since 2002, never payed a cent. Yes, at first it has an ad on top of the window, but it was usable and good. The ad was removed in version 8.5, 5 years ago.
check the comments above regarding On Demand Plugin :)
some versions in the past were particularily crash-prone. I think 9.64 was the worst.
But apart from that, the crashes are so infrequent that I don't mind the whole 'one process per tab' thing. Actually, firefox on Linux crashes a lot more using the exact same flash plugin as Opera
You can enable a setting that allows plugin content to be downloaded only after clicking on it. Very useful:
http://my.opera.com/dude09/blog/on-demand-plugin-opera-turbo
Opera is what it is. Either you like it (like me) or you don't. Its lack of popularity is not due to the lack of extensions (after all, chrome and safari had bigger market share before having extensions themselves).
I prefer it, over any of the others. But it seems there are a lot of bad misconceptions around and that's the biggest problem Opera Software needs to find a way to solve.