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Is Slackware Fading Away?
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?"
I am your God, bow down!
mcdougal
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?
It was a cloudy day from the start. cmdrTaco went to the slashdot
headquarters early at 7:00. He knew that the troll turdsday had begun during
the night and was extremely pissed off as his magnetic card was rejected
from the new security door.
Hemos had the night shift and he was downloading group sex
of various gay animals when he heard cmdrTaco banging on the door.
Cliff was lying on a croner unconcious from too much crack, so Hemos went
to open the door.
"Hemoooooss"
"Yes your highness, here I am", said Hemos
"Did we have any 'incidents' during the night?", asked taco.
"Oh, nothing but the usual saire. Some fps, etc", replied Hemos.
"Ok, Ok go away"
"Go home saire?"
"No, go back to moderating!"
cmdrTaco flopped as heavily as he could on to his control seat in
the hope that it would break and give him something to be genuinely
angry about, but it only gave a complaining sort of creak.
He moded 40 trolls to -1 oblivion and banned several IPs -- just
to cheer his mood. Then he started looking the "who moded who" timetree
in search of corrupted meta-moderators, when he was interrupted by
timothy.
timothy: "er.."
"WHAT THE FUCK IS IT TIMOTHY?", shouted taco and threw a heavy object
in the direction timothy used to be.
timothy: "There are some people here to see you your highness.
They are various CEOs from the biggest ISP of the world."
taco: "Show them in, but they can't stay for more than 3 minutes"
timothy vanished and cmdrTaco gave a -1 to a random post. He used to enjoy
this new habbit more and more lately.
Soon the CEOs were on their knees in front of cmdrTaco, who after
a long pause asked:
"So? What is the reason for this disturbance? Speak!
You have already wasted a lot of my time"
One CEO who was slightly ahead of the others and looked like their
elected leader, extracted a paper from his pocket and started reading:
"Your beloved highness, dear Mr. commander Taco.
We feel terribly sorry and deeply disregard ourselves for
wondering whether it would be possible that your highness would
consider giving us some advice for which far have we travel -- oh a lot.
We have found that some of our major proxy servers are banned
from your glorious site. We can lose customers. What can we do?
Your most obedient servants."
"Is that it? timothy here will supply you with a list of
the timestamps and IPs of banned posts. Find the users that
were using your proxy at this time and cancel their subscription
from your provided services. Its them or you.", said cmdrTaco as they left with timothy.
cmdrTaco flopped on to his control seat once again. The day he would
kick all the trolls out of the internet could not be far. But for the
moment he had to rethink about the lamelessness filter improvements
and install the next version of goatse detector in slashcode.
I guess I'm a dummy; I would have thought it was just "Kewro-szhin". is this guy right? theres a lotta things people all say different til they hear them out loud..
-MySQL- M-y-S-Q-L or My-S-Q-L
-/etc- I say "slash et sea"
-/usr- "oozer", but i dont know anyone else who says that
meh
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
Jankie?
m00.
Got laid by your MOM, and she SUCKS!
God i hope not... i started with windows 95, and Im still using it now. Its been over 5 years i think... It may not be the easiest installation, but you learn from using and installing windows 95.
Sorry couldn't resist.
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.
psxndc
The emacs religion: to be saved, control excess.
It's even more fun watching people waste time responding.
You are both idiots.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Slashbot 1: Hey, we're cool because we're different! Pheer!
Slashbot 2: Hey! They're more different than us. Git 'em!
"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.
A reader writes "I just read over on hustler.com about how Larry Flynt announced that he is no longer actively aroused by looking at pictures of spread-lipped cunts and unwashed rectums (these are 2 things that could have brought porn out of the stoneage but still kept to porn's philosophy of carnal titillation)Ed: Larry explains that being paraplegic has had other undesirable side-effects, as well. So is it almost "game over" for the 'artform' which used to be the favorite of horny, repressed, nerds everywhere?"