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x86-64 Slackware Clone Released

Posted by timothy on from the uniformity-in-diversity dept.

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!"

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  1. Re:Forgive My Noobness But... by eclectro · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't the big ones (SuSE, Fedora, Gentoo, etc) already support AMD64

    It's news because slackware *is* one of the big ones that has been around since pretty much the beginning of Linux.

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  2. Re:Why not Debian? by Man+in+Spandex · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:Why not Debian? by CapnGrunge · · Score: 4, Insightful
    • No dependencies
    • If some package is outdated, download binaries or source and compile at will.
    • No forced update of some other package I don't want/need
    • Slapt-get and RPM are optional
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  4. Re:Uh.. by SaDan · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Gentoo. Download once*, install everywhere.


    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.