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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. just a question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    in my haste to get a first post, i clicked the logout link...when i went to the front page to try again, this story wasn't here.
    do different stories show up for anonymous/logged-in users? or anonymous ppl don't see stories with under a certain number of comments?

  2. Re:Slackware? What's that? by Unknown+Bovine+Group · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Jankie?

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  3. Joe Sixpack. by arfo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well we can't have a distro discussion without mentioning Joe Sixpack. Of course like Joe Sixpack would give a shit about Linux at all.

  4. Re:I Love Slackware by psxndc · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    SuSE is only bloated if you let it be. You have the option to install a minimal installation or select every package you install (among like five other options too). If you go with the "give me everything" option, of course it will be bloated. That being said, I'll give you the fact that SuSE does install stuff in weird places that you have little control over (I gave up on Comanche because it couldn't figure out where SuSE dumped parts of Apache, nor could I).

    psxndc

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  5. Re:Slackware will always have a place... by dmelomed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "If I want to install a useful system with X and FVWM to do Web browsing, check e-mail and log into remote UNIX boxen, all on a Pentium-90 with 16 MB RAM and a 600 GB hard drive, the ONLY current distribution good for the job is Slackware."

    There are a bunch of less-known Linux distributions out there allowing the same. Of course, BSDs will do even better as far as size and memory is concerned. Their C library is considerably smaller, resulting in smaller executables (and possibly faster, which makes BSDs better candidates for older hardware). The package system is great to boot.

    What are you going to do now, moderate this message "flamebate"? I am advocating both Linux and BSD. There are some things BSD does better.