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Is Slackware Fading Away?

Posted by Hemos on from the don't-fade-away dept.

A reader writes "I just read over on userlocal.com about how David Cantrell announced he is no longer actively developing protopkg and autoslack (these are 2 apps that could have brought slack out of the stoneage but still kept to slacks philosophy of K.I.S.S.). So is it almost "game over" for the first commercial linux distribution which used to be the heavyweight champ?"

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  1. No, not a chance by jjccss · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    It will never fade away as long as I keep using it. Sorry redhat, debian, mandrake, etc. I like linux, not windows.

  2. Slackware is not a M$ wannabe... by Matro · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...and that is the reason why it will live on.

    Slackware is the distro for people that knows UN*X. Let the converted windows user use Red Hat or whatever...

    That's my 2 cents...

  3. Re:Debian vs Slack for the 'unix-like' crown? by Bremen24601 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How can any distro that dosn't even include pico be considered 'unix-like' ???

    He who trades a security for ease of use in his OS deserves neither.

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