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Distros To Try: Slackware 9.0-rc1 And Yoper 1.0
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."
first yoper post!
Switch to Gentoo! 'Nuf said.
I was given a Knoppix CD by someone that was made by the knoppix people. Even though all the info and instructions are written in English, it defalts to German. I guess someone wasn't thinking when they made this batch. Oh well. (It's KNOPPIX 3.1)
Losing faith in humanity one person at a time.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Slackware GNU/Linux is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slackware GNU/Linux community when IDC confirmed that Slackware GNU/Linux market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Slackware GNU/Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Slackware GNU/Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict Slackware GNU/Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Slackware GNU/Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Slackware GNU/Linux because Slackware GNU/Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Slackware GNU/Linux. As many of us are already aware, Slackware GNU/Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the Slackware GNU/Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Slackware GNU/Linux has steadily declined in market share. Slackware GNU/Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Slackware GNU/Linux is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Slackware GNU/Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Slackware GNU/Linux is dea
Once you go slack....you never go back!
In SOVIET RUSSIA, the Internet logs onto You! [yimg.com]
Bwahah, that's priceless.
Fuck you you stupid son of a bitch. You're nothing but a cunt with a big severed dick sitting in your belly, you asshole. Quit licking my dogs nuts and stop sucking dick. And take a shower too.
Hey!!! Someone hacked the House.gov
What would Jesus do... for a Klondike bar?
More importantly... What does a Klondike bar need that jesus can help with?
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
It's from New Zealand, so you know they're a bunch of lesbo vegan peaceniks.