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Slackware 10.0 Officially Released
BRTB writes "Slackware 10.0 is out! X.org 6.7.0, kernel 2.4.26 (2.6.7 optional), KDE 3.2.3, GNOME 2.6.1, GCC 3.3.4... it's all new, and just as stable as you'd expect from Slackware, if RC2 was any indication. There's an official announcement, as well as some ISO BitTorrent links, and a mirror list. Of course, the non-cheapskates among us should go buy the CD-set to support the project. Have fun, everybody..."
no yuo!
This is where .NET comes in. There is no more DLL hell. There are 2 ways to fix this in Linux. One way is to not use dynamic libaries, and use inline. The binaries will be big, but that is not a problem anymore since hard drives are big and cheap. The second way to fix this is to do what .NET did, make assemblies (exe, dlls) strong named. They cantain a version like 1.1.3434.13243, a digital signature, and are stored in a global assembly cache. This means that foobar.dll v1.0 and foobar.dll v1.1 can exist on disk at the same location (to the requesting program). On disk they are actually stored as foobar.dll, but the program does not see that. This way DLL hell is fixed. .NET takes care of this problem. A similar service can be created for UNIX. I'm not talking about .NET, just about the service that gives the right version of the libary to the requesting program. Since almost every distro has a different file system hierarchy, and no distro capitulates to a standard, I don't think that this will ever happen.
Eh?
Surely, you meant to say "XFree86", and not just "X".
+5, even. Truly amazing.
Kid-proof tablet..
Didn't anyone tell you? Only Christians have souls and morals...
As usual another washed up slack kiddie (now fat old bald dude) spreads some bullshit.
First of all you are EXACTLY the kind of user I was talking about. "Oh you don't like slack? Well you obviously aren't leet enough to handle it!". Not slackware is quite easy to use, it just sucks. That's like saying if you find SCO UNIX shitty it's simply because you aren't smart enough to use it. No, it just sucks.
Second, how would learning slackware help you use other distros like redhat or debian since slackware uses some bizarro wannabe bsd style inits that all the other non-shit modern distros do not use. Also no other distro uses that kind of package management (because it fucking sucks). If you learn redhat or debian you would be much better able to switch distros since more distros are based on and closely related to those. No distros are derived from slack, Why? Because it fucking sucks.
Using slackware makes you stupid about not just linux but computing in general. It means you easily get bamboozled by a cool image. Slackware is one of the worst distros. Washed up old farts who think its still 1997 still swear by it, other than the noob chumps that believe the hype spewed out by the old farts. Anyone with half a brain and a little unix experience can see the distro is shit.
Oh ya, and I've course I've used slackware, it wasn't hard, it wasn't leet, it wasn't good, it was shit...The first time, then a couple years later, yup still sucks...today? Still CRAPPY.
Go ahead believe you are a linux genius because you use some half assed backwards distro left over from the 90s, I don't give a shit. You'll just look like a fucking moron but that's your problem.
Bzzzzzzzt !, Like, what, you learned lunix "back in the good ol' dayz" with all us 1337 r00ts but now you're working for a big corporation and install redhat and suse ?! fuck off u lam3r.