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Slackware 8.1 rc1 Announced
Demerol writes with word that "about 12 hours ago, Patrick announced the that Slackware is now in Release Candidate stage in preparation for the long-awaited 8.1 release. Hundreds of updated to the current tree in the last few months have had all the slackers drooling, and now it is almost upon us. Now, I don't want to hear any more talk of Slackware being dead. Thanks. ;) Here is the ChangeLog
and the Userlocal announcement"
Anyone who has actually tried gentoo, and isnt using it instead of every other distro to-date, is simply an idiot.
Slashdot is full of ultra right wing
That is ultra left-wing you retard. How many slashdotters do you know are gun-toting coon-hunting Ted Nugent-types?
Libertarian is to the left, although they support what they call "freedom" -- i.e. support of the bill of rights to its fullest. That's why ESR likes guns.
What happens if Patrick Volkerding gets hit by a bus?
Change the channel if you dont like the programing.. but please stop bitching. If you need pkg stuff just install it. Other than FreeBSD Slack is the best free unix you can get.
-b
BSD is dying just like slack! I have always hated slack, when I was forced to leave it I decided to hate it forever! Slack may be fine for j00 n00bs, but not this 1337 H4X0r!
This is a troll. I grew up on Slack since '95. Go slack!
--Kevin
Some people may be wondering why someone would use slackware when there are distros like Mandrake which have a graphical configuration utility for everything. There is a very good reason: to learn about Operating Systems and about Linux. To change a configuration in Slackware, you have to edit text files.
To change configuration in any popular Linux distro you can edit text files. Why do people think that because more modern distros offer people the choice of GUI tools they somehow limit those who wish to edit text files? The only GUI tool I know of that eats hand configured text files this is Linuxconf, which is due more to bugs than design (which is why Linuxconf isn't installed by default in most recent distros). To summarize; how is Slackware better for learning than other distros? Because, as you say, you have to edit a text file?
This is asides from the argument that Unix should be more about building a working network using whatever tools you wish, graphical or text, which save information to text files, rather than dicking around with the intricacies of text file formatting. I'd rather have someone that knew how DHCP worked than how dhcpd.conf was formatted.
The other thing I'd argue is that if people were to learn about Linux they should learn about the Linux Standards Base - things like SysV init scripts, the FHS, and the RPM packaging system (although the FHS is still waiting on the RPM 4 version of Maximum RPM so v3 is still the written standard).