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New Slackware Handbook Released

Posted by timothy on from the slacking-does-not-mean-dozing dept.

Rob_Ogilvie writes "Alan Hicks and his team have finished revising the old 'Slackware Essentials' book and have now released a new and not outdated version for all you Slackware users out there. The old book was getting to be quite outdated, being a few years old. For those of you who like dead trees, this new version is available for pre-order now, in dead-tree format."

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  1. slackware's cutting edge offerings: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    rawrite. fdisk. LILO.

    The closest it gets to a network install is NFS.

    XFree86 too. and yes, xf86config, modeline selection and all, is part of the setup.

    This isn't being "lean and mean", this is just backward. There are plenty of slack-like distributions that don't require you to "learn about your system" by solving what was already solved long ago.

  2. Pat needs a book by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How bout a f&*$#@ book to teach Pat how to package Gnome and not screw over half the users that have been supporting his ass for over 10 years.