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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. "

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  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. 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!)

  4. 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.