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First Impressions of Slackware 10
Eugenia writes "Michael Hall wrote an informative article about the first impressions of the recently released Slackware 10, mostly discussing the domain Slack excels: the server. Michael concludes that 'Slackware 10 is a well-rounded distribution that will continue to make a first-class Linux server platform. Changes in the new release are incremental, not radical, and Slackware remains one of the most stable, reliable and flexible distributions available today.' The article also sports 14 screenshots."
Slackware has always been my favorite distro, so I'm really excited to see what's in store in this release. For a supposedly "hard" distro, I've always found it quite easy and painless to install.
Maybe if you installed from the 50 diskettes it used to take 10 years ago, you'd know why it was considered 'hard'.
I sure hope osnews.com isn't running slack as proof of concept ;-)
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
Boney M ! Man, Slack really does have it all.
eloquent? do you mean elegant?
eloquent: adj.
1. Characterized by persuasive, powerful discourse: an eloquent speaker; an eloquent sermon.
2. Vividly or movingly expressive: a look eloquent with compassion. See Synonyms at expressive.
unless.... does pkgsrc speak to you? am i not the only one? does it tell you too to KILL KILL KILL?
Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
There's also the matter of standardization - once you have learned to configure your own system without a 3rd-party kludge to hold your hand and do it for you in a point-and-drool interface, you can then apply that knowledge to pretty much any Unix-like system. If all the configuration you've ever done was accomplished via a distribution-specific GUI tool, then all you've learned to do is configure that specific version of that specific distribution.
Slackware uses a sophisticated software update system comprised of the pkgtool utility (and its attendant installpkg, removepkg, and upgradepkg cousins) and an incredible A.I.system abbreviated as "S.Y.S.O.P."
Through its amazing abilities, the S.Y.S.O.P. system monitors a steady feed of bug reports (the famed B.U.G.T.R.A.Q. system, first implemented in 1997 as an experiment in networking S.Y.S.O.P. systems over long distance, high latency networks in an asynchronus way) for information on what to do with the system. A S.Y.S.O.P. system will tirelessy maintain and care for your server installation, and can even create whole new bits of software, in the form of shell scripts or what have you, in the pursuit of its goals!
While those Debian people may be happy to just blindly apt-get-upgrade their BIND installation every few weeks, and those poor Redhat users are forced to rpm -i --force --nodeps nearly every single package they want, it has been found that through proper use of a S.Y.S.O.P. system, you can ditch the automated upgrades and truly secure your system(s) once and for all time! These amazing devices will also help end users if they are clustered sufficiently to prevent burnout.
An intelligient S.Y.S.O.P. -- no server should be without one!
Large parts of the previous few paragraphs were stolen from the alt.os.linux.slackware mod-fortunes file
"Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
why is it i cringe when i see open source apps GUI's in a "screenshot" everytime i read the spec get all excited then i see the screenshots and think "nahh ill stick with OSX/WinXP
Because you think being a power user is using Outlook rather than Outlook Express?
Because you ditched that baby AOL stuff and signed up with Earthlink DSL, so now you're the hacker in the family?
No, no, lemme guess... you ordered the Slackware disks but when you put one in your CD drive it wouldn't Autostart so you decided it sucked.
(yeah, yeah, I know... don't feed the trolls...)
eloquent? do you mean elegant?
It was a typo... or was it? Maybe i'm going to go on a killing spree. You'll know soon when you read the post regarding the Slashdotter whose computers led him to homicide. Then again, slashdot posters would probably lead me to such before pkgsrc.
The worst thing about installing Gentoo is waiting 15 hours to find out you screwed up.
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Only on /. can you be modded insightful for calling yourself a dumbass.
% mkdir
% ls -dF
I don't even use Linux and I've always known that Slackware is the best.
Does this thing even have ISOs yet? gotta love software they deliberately make hard to install. It's the "I'd walk a mile for a camel" of Linux distributions.
I found that I actually prefer building my system sources! (proper geek!)
Translation: I have no job, live in mum's basement, and have the time to screw with my distro instead of doing real work.
I tell you what was hard about installing my first slack system (don't remember what ver, kernel was .89 or .92 or something like that) from floppy... downloading the fuckers on a 14.4 modem. Of course, since I didn't know which sets I needed to get a running system, I also downloaded 50+. Painful.
jred
I'm not a mechanic but I play one in my garage...