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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. Re:Slackware? What's that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "i had to prepare my own dinner, and found the process quite time consuming and unfriendly, compared to various fast food chains i later sampled"

    'nuff said...

  2. Re:God i hope not by blixel · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...but you learn from using and installing windows 95.

    You learn how to turn a computer into a door stop.

    Sorry, couldn't resist.