wow.. been reading for three years and this is my first post, which also happens to be first post...
Ah.. such a shame... three years of training.. three long years of awaiting that special moment.. that one shining point in your life where it all comes together. Ah to score that elusive and coveted first post that we all scoff at but secretly dream about...
So you hit the Read More link and you see NO POSTS...and your heart starts to race.. palms begin sweating... you quickly type your gibberish in then grope madly for the mouse... with high hopes you click the submit button then pray to the geek Gods..."Oh dear God.. just let me have it once.. please God.. just this one time"
Then the page loads and you are left looking at this:
Just a selection, more are in the MIRRORS.TXT file on any of these sites, FTP isn't slow if you use a server near you...
UK/European Users: The Slackware distribution is mirrored nightly at: src.doc.ic.ac.uk in directory/packages/linux/slackware-mirror ----------------------------------
USA: ftp.freesoftware.com:/pub/slackware/ is the home site. Also: uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/systems/linux/distributions/slackware. ftp.cps.cmich.edu:/pub/linux/packages/slackware sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware. mirrored nightly. ftp2.netis.com:/pub/linux/slackware ftp.nlife.com:/pub/linux/slackware/ full mirror of ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/ ftp.cs.umn.edu (160.94.277.144) mirrors nightly in/pub/Linux/slackware. ftp.linux.locus.halcyon.com/pub/linux/slackware: Updated daily at 08:30 Pacific. ftp.halcyon.com mirrors the distribution at 400 PST daily. ftp.thedalles.net:/pub/linux/slackware ftp.thepayne.com:/pub/unix/slackware-3.6 daily mirror @ 01:00 Pacific. ftp://ftp.cs.unm.edu/dist/mirrors/slackware-3.6 updated daily around 1:00am MDT. ftp.cs.columbia.edu:/archives/linux/Slackware mirrors the distribution daily (in the early morning). (they also have slackware_source) ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/os/linux/slackware. Updated: Nightly
Remember that was Patrick's whole argument? The only reason he went to 7 in the first place was that RedHat had a higher version number and people were asking him questions like "When will you catch up to RedHat?" Since there are enough people out there that don't get that different products with different version numbers don't compare, mainly because they're *DIFFERENT PRODUCTS*...
--
"I'm not even supposed to BE here today!"
Maybe they need a change of name
by
Anonymous Coward
·
· Score: 4
As a professional consultant for a major Fortune 500 software company, I've recently gotten involved in the whole open source phenomenon as started by Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman with the release of the GNU/Linux operating system (or is it Linux? I'm not too sure on this point).
Anyway, after having compiled a report on the commercial viability of open source as an alternative to closed source in the e-commerce/b2b world, I've become quite interested in Linux myself, and thanks to a handy Corel Linux distribution, consider myself to be someway to becoming a "guru" as people here like to call themselves.
Anyway, my point is that Slackware, as a distribution, doesn't give out the professional image that Linux is trying to gain at the moment. On one hand, you've got respectable players like Red Hat, Corel and SCO pushing Linux's corporate image to new levels of respectibility, but on the other hand you've got a distribution named "Slackware", hardly the name your tech-savvy CTO wants to represent a core part of their enterprise solution.
The whole name seems to give the distribution a half-finished, "slack" even, image, surely not one that's in anybody's best interest, whether they be the average long-haired Linux sysadmin or a suited CTO looking for the next big thing. And this image taints all of Linux.
No, whilst Slackware may produce a decent distribution, they definitely need to think about a name change to ensure continued acceptance in the increasingly corporate-driven Linux market.
Slashdot Mirror
wow.. been reading for three years and this is my first post, which also happens to be first post...
Ah.. such a shame... three years of training.. three long years of awaiting that special moment.. that one shining point in your life where it all comes together. Ah to score that elusive and coveted first post that we all scoff at but secretly dream about...
So you hit the Read More link and you see NO POSTS...and your heart starts to race.. palms begin sweating... you quickly type your gibberish in then grope madly for the mouse... with high hopes you click the submit button then pray to the geek Gods..."Oh dear God.. just let me have it once.. please God.. just this one time"
Then the page loads and you are left looking at this:
(#8)
Ah well...always a bridesmaid and never a bride.
UK/European Users: /packages/linux/slackware-mirror
The Slackware distribution is mirrored nightly at:
src.doc.ic.ac.uk in directory
----------------------------------
USA: /pub/slackware/ is the home site. Also: /pub/systems/linux/distributions/slackware. /pub/linux/packages/slackware /pub/Linux/distributions/slackware. mirrored nightly. /pub/linux/slackware /pub/linux/slackware/ /pub/Linux/slackware. : Updated daily at 08:30 Pacific. /pub/linux/slackware /pub/unix/slackware-3.6 daily mirror @ 01:00 Pacific. /archives/linux/Slackware mirrors the distribution daily (in the early morning). (they also have slackware_source) /pub/os/linux/slackware. Updated: Nightly
ftp.freesoftware.com:
uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu:
ftp.cps.cmich.edu:
sunsite.unc.edu:
ftp2.netis.com:
ftp.nlife.com:
full mirror of
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/
ftp.cs.umn.edu (160.94.277.144) mirrors nightly in
ftp.linux.locus.halcyon.com/pub/linux/slackware
ftp.halcyon.com mirrors the distribution at 400 PST daily.
ftp.thedalles.net:
ftp.thepayne.com:
ftp://ftp.cs.unm.edu/dist/mirrors/slackware-3.6 updated daily around 1:00am MDT.
ftp.cs.columbia.edu:
ftp.ccs.neu.edu:
~ppppppppö
Remember that was Patrick's whole argument? The only reason he went to 7 in the first place was that RedHat had a higher version number and people were asking him questions like "When will you catch up to RedHat?" Since there are enough people out there that don't get that different products with different version numbers don't compare, mainly because they're *DIFFERENT PRODUCTS*...
"I'm not even supposed to BE here today!"
As a professional consultant for a major Fortune 500 software company, I've recently gotten involved in the whole open source phenomenon as started by Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman with the release of the GNU/Linux operating system (or is it Linux? I'm not too sure on this point).
Anyway, after having compiled a report on the commercial viability of open source as an alternative to closed source in the e-commerce/b2b world, I've become quite interested in Linux myself, and thanks to a handy Corel Linux distribution, consider myself to be someway to becoming a "guru" as people here like to call themselves.
Anyway, my point is that Slackware, as a distribution, doesn't give out the professional image that Linux is trying to gain at the moment. On one hand, you've got respectable players like Red Hat, Corel and SCO pushing Linux's corporate image to new levels of respectibility, but on the other hand you've got a distribution named "Slackware", hardly the name your tech-savvy CTO wants to represent a core part of their enterprise solution.
The whole name seems to give the distribution a half-finished, "slack" even, image, surely not one that's in anybody's best interest, whether they be the average long-haired Linux sysadmin or a suited CTO looking for the next big thing. And this image taints all of Linux.
No, whilst Slackware may produce a decent distribution, they definitely need to think about a name change to ensure continued acceptance in the increasingly corporate-driven Linux market.