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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:YALD by SquadBoy · · Score: 0, Troll

    You do know that Slack is one of the first distros ever. Now granted in the year of our Lord 2000 and 5 Slack tends to be for people who already run Slack but they do tend to be some of the best and brightest around. This is simply a new arch not a new distro.

    And yeah there are a few great ones. Two to be exact Debian and Slack. Almost all of the mediocre ones are built off of Dabian.

    So your point was supposed to be?

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  2. Re:Why not Debian? by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe because the release they call "stable" is actually a euphemism for "hopelessly obsolete"?

    This is my actual opinion, not a troll. I've had too many incompatibilities because one year old software was TOO NEW to work with the latest "stable" release because "stable" used libraries a few versions old.