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x86-64 Slackware Clone Released
Rob_Ogilvie points out that another distribution for x86-64 (AKA AMD64) has been released: "This time it's Slamd64. Slamd64 10.1 is based off Slackware 10.1. Developer Fred Emmott ported Slackware to AMD64 in his spare time, trying to keep the distribution as close to Slackware proper as possible (even keeping binary compatibility for many existing packages). Finally x86-64 users have some real viable choices out there!"
Why is this news? Don't the big ones (SuSE, Fedora, Gentoo, etc) already support AMD64? I think SuSE 9.3 supports both AMD64 and EM64T (Intel's version of the 64 bit arch).
I'm not trying to troll, I'm just wondering if I'm missing something? I don't know much about 64 bit.
cant forget about the relese of debian gnu/linux 3.1 finally!
Noone writes jokes in base 13!
Maybe because that doesn't answer the fucking question which was "Are there any 64bit version of Slackware" that many would probably be interested in. Instead you come up and say "Why not Debian".
It's like when I ask a question about compiling a certain program's source package and then the whole thing turns into a gentoo vs the rest of the world kind of conversation.
Why not Debian? Who ever said this was a replacement to Debian? That's what you make it seem! Some ppl will take Debian. Some ppl will take Slackware It's just more choices.
I want to use Slackware, why not Gentoo right? Those kind of questions are blindly asked without knowing what I really want and what I don't want. That's what you just did.
A person wants this, but you suggest that.... No, stfu. That's not what the person wants.
There's nothing wrong with Debian! (using Debian sarge on a fileserver) Your question was simply too vague and common among the OSS community where ppl like to steer away the conversations and start defending their favorite distro/software.
I see 57005 people
Just because someone asks why this is news? Seriously, this is adding one more distro among how many? Looks like a bunch of goofballs out there taking offense at someone questioning slashdot.
The problem is none of them are Slackware.
I use and love Slackware because I find everything it does easy to understand and therefore easy for me to change as I need. The part I like best about Slackware is its init script setup, it's the only method I've actually come to understand from trying various other distros - and I didn't even need to RTFM to figure it out.
Slackware is fairly basic and just gets out of my way so I can do things the way I want. Thats what I want from an OS and none of the ones you listed (apart from maybe Mandriva as I haven't used it) can do that for me.
Yeah, and compile forever. What a waste of time.
I don't need to compile everything myself if it's done right the first time.
Slackware tends to do just that, and it sounds like this unofficial port to AMD64 is keeping true to its source.
Besides, choice is good. You use Gentoo, I'll use Slackware and it's distos based on Slackware. I've got no problems with that.
"But any serious enterprise would be beyond foolish to entrust their IT center to an OS developed, packaged and supported entirely at the whim of just a couple of guys with no real infrastructure behind them"
You just described not only the foundation of Linux, but the current operating state of most OSS projects.