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Distros To Try: Slackware 9.0-rc1 And Yoper 1.0

Posted by timothy on from the invited-abuse dept.

FrosGate writes "Slackware 9.0-rc1 is now available for public consumption over at www.slackware.com. From the site: 'Some of the main components included are the 2.4.20 Linux kernel, KDE 3.1, GNOME 2.2, and XFree86 4.3.0, as well as gcc-3.2.2 and the latest development libraries. Enjoy!' Enjoy is right!" And Scorchen writes "YOPER has released Version 1.0 of their increasingly popular distro. This is the their first stable release." Here's the announcment. The website claims "With Yoper it is possible to import packages from all the other major distros including rpm's, deb's, and tgz packages."

8 of 377 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Yoper looks a bit dull? by hdparm · · Score: 4, Funny
    GNU/YOPER

    Happy now?

    Oh sorry, it's Stillman, not Stallman.

  2. Re:I'm gonna try Slackware 9 by Rebel+Patriot · · Score: 3, Funny
    I haven't even touched Slack since the 5.x days. I think that it's time to get back to my roots.

    Troll! had you ever ran Slackware you'd know there were no 5.x releases!

    Go back under your bridge.

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  3. Re:Slackware is always quick to pick up the latest by illogical_simby · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's wrong with you guys, I'm still wiping my eyes. Keep the funny posts coming!

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  4. Re:I don't undestand why linux is on so many CDs by moertle · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember the day that I was saddened that the /slakware directory didn't fit on a single 100MB Zip disk.

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  5. Yes. by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 2, Funny

    (didn't I just say that?)

    So what, it still isn't funny. Nothing about slackware is funny until you run fortune -o

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  6. Re:OSNews by colin_n · · Score: 2, Funny

    The duds as described in the thread on OSnews are these, and I will do a copy and paste:

    "Yoper doesn't include a working dependency-resolving package manager. Apt is included, but doesn't seem to work; rpm is installed, but the db has no clue what packages you have installed, so you have to use --nodeps, and after the new program crashes because of dependencies, you have to look at the output from the console to see what you are missing, then to rpmfind.net, and on, and on." - posted by anonymous.

    Sorry I wasnt descriptive before

    Colin

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  7. I'm going to make a new distribution by baywulf · · Score: 4, Funny

    It will be a tiny version of Debian called 'DE' and to please RMS I'll call it GNU/DE.

  8. Slackware 9? by Spacelord · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh damn .... and I just finished upgrading my workstation from 8.0 to 8.1