Swaret rocks. I went from Slack 8.1 to -current without any trouble whatsoever.

Having been a Slack fan and user since the 3.x days and hearing all that time that Slack "does not upgrade well" I had my doubts.

Not anymore though. New kernel and everything without having to compile a new one. All dependencies handled insofar as I've been able to tell.

The only trouble I had was after reboot (yeah yeah I know I didn't have to) apache wasn't running. I started it manually and it ran fine. Apparently Patrick turned that off by default.

So I've joined Nerdfarm apparently. Played last night with Xeri and gmhowell (at least I think it was him) and really enjoyed it.

Admittedly though this whole thing is starting to become surreal. I played TFC for years and after hearing "Join our clan!" from every pub server I went to I finally ended up in [SHR] which was the epitome of a not-clan. That was the whole point of being in [SHR]. It was never a real clan.

So this will be interesting.

In related news I see they've gone with MS's Game Voice. I think I'll see if I can't talk them into going with Roger Wilco.