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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."
slackware... PACKS YOUR FUDGE
Ah, yes... that indian summer of 1993... a jar of lube.. your dad's tight sphincter... your grandpa's wrinkly cock banging him up the chute like there was no tomorrow...
Such memories...
A troll got moderated -10000, flamebait for sending the slackware a goatse birthday card/a.
Yet he is still not as fucking stupid as all the idiots who have to reply to an obvious troll to point out that there is no such thing as "Linux 9.0" like they're some fucking bright bulb in a lighting shop. Jesus H. Christ, trolling isn't an art any more, its like shooting into a crowded room with a blunderbus.
Thinking about it, maybe its time to start shooting into rooms with blunderbuses. We'll start with every single fucking idiot who replied with the exact same amazing "insight" before we move on to the Christian fundementalists.
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, SuSE 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.
Why in the fuck wouldnt it, you half wit?
Do you really think linux has changed all that much in 10 years? It hasnt.
Oh sure, now we have 10,000 unusable desktops, 90 billion buggy shells and scripting languages, and about 4 thousand breakout clones. But linux is still the useless pile of horse crap it was in the "good ole days"
Impossible! The Pentium 90 was released in March of 1994. See for yourself.
Utter bullshit, slackware has never been about being stable or faster. The software and tools that are available for slackware are pretty much carbon copies used in the other distributions.
Slackware is a toy distribution, useful to poke around with in Linux, nothing more. It isn't any more stable, it has no tools to keep your system up-to-date short of reformatting, re-installing the next release.
Out of the box, it is a total insecure pile of crap.
Screw "Slack"ware, it needs to die.
Slackware is dying. It's frickin toast. It never was anything but a toy distro anyway.