Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Patrick Volkerding Interviewed by The Age

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the insert-slackware-joke-here dept.

boa13 writes "The Age, a major newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, has published an interview with Patrick Volkerding, The Man behind Slackware. Covered are the early history of Slackware, its business model, its current state, Patrick's plans for the future and his opinion about the commercialisation of Linux. "

6 of 127 comments (clear)

  1. Another interview by RDW · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a good companion piece, from the second issue of the Linux Journal way back in 1994:

    http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2750

    Read the shocking truth about Patrick's Grateful Dead tape collection, and the possibility of a Slackware/Debian merger!

  2. Original usenet post by Patrick Volkerding! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here

    I found it by searching for the subject line he mentioned in interview mentioned here.

  3. Slackware is not dead by unixmaster · · Score: 2, Informative

    Slackware is still going on with the latest 9.0-beta still the first choice of Slackers!

    :)

    --
    Never learn by your mistakes, if you do you may never dare to try again
  4. Re:Slack's great, but package management? by MasterOfMagic · · Score: 3, Informative

    The best native package management is a combination of three things:

    1) BOFH
    2) tar -xzf
    3) gcc

    At least, that seems to be the view I get from using Slackware. (And I love it!)

  5. Subscribe to Slack, you cheap bastards! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative
    Words of a man just below Linus in godishness:
    "Most of the funding for the Slackware project comes from people who have subscribed to the CD releases, or bought CDs..."
    If you want Slackware to survive, subscribe! Cheaper than the single sale, and you know you'll be doing the right thing to keep Slackware alive and Cheerios on Pat's dinner table. If you're getting it anywhere else, you are cheating the best distro ever. Don't be a cheap bastard, sign up for a subscription today. Feel good about yourself for helping Slack...

    QillerPenguin, w/o his password :-(
    Slacker since '94

  6. Re:Slack's great, but package management? by AntiBasic · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is one. It's called "autopkg". A great tool, can do something quite similar to apt-get.