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Slackware 10.1 Beta And Pat's Health

Posted by timothy on from the slack-is-slick dept.

phreakuencies writes "The ChangeLog in slackware-current got a distiguished update today on Jan 22: Patrick Volkerding updated us on his health condition stating he is not back in perfect shape but getting more medical tests and results. The initial phrase on the ChangeLog: 'I'm going to call this Slackware 10.1 beta 1, because we're at a state where things are relatively stable.' Read up here"

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  1. Re:All well and good... by gl4ss · · Score: 2, Informative

    you can get precompiled packages for gentoo, no need or point most of the time compiling things yourself.

    but slack still has it's following, and is fundamentlly different from gentoo - and damn, it's one of the old and still going distros.

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  2. Re:Ok, flame away... by lars_stefan_axelsson · · Score: 2, Informative
    Frankly, there are a number of businesses who really rely on this software and refuse to believe that they owe anything in return - money or code.

    And hence the GPL as then you're not getting it for 'free'. The code you put into our project, you owe us back in return. So that we and others may remain free (as in libre).

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  3. Good News by datadriven · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is good news for me. I've been waiting rather impatiently for the next release of slackware. I've tried every distro that offers a download and slackware is the only one I liked. I liked it enough to get a subscription. I'm sure Pat would appreciate it if some of you did the same.

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  4. Re:All well and good... by MaynardJanKeymeulen · · Score: 3, Informative

    Beside the fact that you CAN install a program like OOo without a package or without compiling,like, by using a installer!

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  5. Re:Maybe instead of update... by rah1420 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Perhaps you should RTFA. His illness is in no way over.

    From the latest changelog entry, it looks like progress is being made, but he still has a bunch of diagnostics facing him and possible heart surgery. That hardly qualifies as "over."

    I think I'll wander over and buy a copy of Slackware now.

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