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Slackware Turns 10
Sir_Stinksalot writes "DistroWatch is reporting that Slackware is 10. 'Yes folks, it is exactly 10 years today since the release of Slackware Linux 1.0, complete with a brand new Linux kernel 0.99pl11 Alpha, XFree86 1.3 and even a PS/2 mouse support!' Let's all say happy birthday to Slackware."
... and exactly how is it better today?
Slackware is the first Linix Distro I used, though I admit it was a bit further along.
-Rusty
You never know...
Slack 9 released (roughly) 10 years after 1.
I'm sure Max from Pi would see something in that.
If it ain't broke, you need more software.
ALREADY?!?!? Geesh oh wiz, I got to upgrade *AGAIN*?!?!?
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Sure, slack is fun to dink around with and it's nice for a sense of history and all that but today as a business about the only distro I can quote out is Linux 9.0. In todays market customers want support and they want to see a product comes in a box with decals and installation books. Fortuen 500 companies don't really care about the "cool" factor.
Warmest regards,
--Jack
Wagner LLC Consulting Co. - Getting it right the first time
11:20:29 up 3651 days, 22:40, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.07, 0.02
From the initial Slackware release announcement :
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There are two main disk series, A (13 disks) and X (11 disks).
In a not-so-distant future, Linux distros will also come on 13 disks. Only not on floppy disks. That's how much GNU/Linux has evolved since the early days
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
mailx, quota utilities, experimental winapi source, sound drivers.
Wine, is that you? Oh man, remember that crazy summer of 1993?!
Awesome! It finally caught up to Red Hat 5 and Windows 95! Way to go Slackware!
Fortuen 500 companies don't really care about the "cool" factor.
Guess spellcheckers aren't all that cool either, eh Sparky?
I remember my first time with slackware way back when in college. I couldn't download it, because I needed to get linux up and running in the first place so I could dial-up to the CS modem pool and PPP. So I went the bookstore, bought a huge stack of floppies and tried 3 times to copy all the distro disks before I got it right - back and forth all day to campus.
Problem was I was copying *.* instead of * to the each floppy having come from a DOS background. That wasn't nearly as bad as blowing my $800 monitor the next day trying to setup X timings. Ahh, the good old days.
No silly, you're supposed to put the clock speed there, not the frequency of your AC supply ...
Now it's a jolly good distro!
Now it's a jolly good distro!
Now it's a jolly good distro!
Now it's a jolly good diiistrooo!
And so say all of us.
And so say all of us.
And so say all of uuuuuss.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
As a professional consultant for a major Fortune 500 software company, I've recently gotten involved in the whole open source phenomenon as started by Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman with the release of the GNU/Linux operating system (or is it Linux? I'm not too sure on this point).
Anyway, after having compiled a report on the commercial viability of open source as an alternative to closed source in the e-commerce/b2b world, I've become quite interested in Linux myself, and thanks to a handy Corel Linux distribution, consider myself to be someway to becoming a "guru" as people here like to call themselves.
Anyway, my point is that Slackware, as a distribution, doesn't give out the professional image that Linux is trying to gain at the moment. On one hand, you've got respectable players like Red Hat, Corel and SCO pushing Linux's corporate image to new levels of respectibility, but on the other hand you've got a distribution named "Slackware", hardly the name your tech-savvy CTO wants to represent a core part of their enterprise solution.
The whole name seems to give the distribution a half-finished, "slack" even, image, surely not one that's in anybody's best interest, whether they be the average long-haired Linux sysadmin or a suited CTO looking for the next big thing. And this image taints all of Linux.
No, whilst Slackware may produce a decent distribution, they definitely need to think about a name change to ensure continued acceptance in the increasingly corporate-driven Linux market.
I'd never bought so many floppies before in my life...
Ahh, we all remember our firsts don't we?
Unfortunately, this is turning more and more into a high-school reunion. My first was Sally Henderson.
So was mine!
Me too!
Over here!
I'm going to shower now. I feel sick.
Always remember: time flies when you don't have to look at blue screens.
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
Your math isn't that great either.
The Nintendo Entertainment System turned 20 this week.
Anyone up for a port?
--R.J.
Electric-Escape.net
I STILL remember comparing it to the SCO I had at work, and kept comparing the man pages to the IBM XENIX manuals I had stashed away.
So... You're the reason for the lawsuit... damn you!!!
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who take things at face value, and those who think too far into them...I'm in the second category. Has Slackware turned 00000010, or 00001010?
G. M. Manath
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both 'Yes' and 'No.'