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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. hmmm... I installed it once by SirEdward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    switched back to Mandrake the next day cuz I couldn't get sound working for my isapnp card (yeah, I was pretty green back then) but mostly because I didn't like the packaging system.
    I've since switched to Debian...

  2. Re:Slackware will always have a place... by ToWnSaVeR2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    600 GB hard drive
    Damn, I would like to know where you buy your computers.