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Slackware Linux 10.2 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everyone-remembers-their-first dept.

excelblue writes "Slackware Linux 10.2 has finally been released. This release comes with Linux 2.4.31, with 2.6.13 available in the testing packages and glibc 2.3.5. This time, they've decided to get up with times and switch to Firefox, Thunderbird, and subversion instead of using the Mozilla suite and cvs from the previous distros. Here are Torrents of ISO images."

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  1. YAY! by frinkacheese · · Score: 4, Funny


    Time to test the 2Gb/s Internet connection with some torrent seeds :)

    Well done to the Slackware team on another nice release of the nicest, most stable and most usable (for admins) Linux release there is.

    Really, the completr lack of package management and silly whizzy clicky admin tools makes Slackware a lllot easier to admin when you have 120 servers running it.

    1. Re:YAY! by DenDave · · Score: 2, Funny

      OMG you have 120 slackware boxes?

      *bow down* we're not worthy!

      Is it not easier to use gentoo for such a monstrous installation base?

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    2. Re:YAY! by gowen · · Score: 2, Funny
      nicest, most stable and most usable (for admins) Linux release there is.
      YAY!

      Let's all pull so-subjective-as-to-be-meaningless statements out of our butts in order to promote a "my distro is cooler than yours" dick-waving contest!

      YAY!
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    3. Re:YAY! by EddyPearson · · Score: 2, Funny

      gotta luv the old school linux system. still maintained by a single person ;) the open source dictatorship :p

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    4. Re:YAY! by part_of_you · · Score: 5, Funny

      I am a newbie learning slackware. Many people have warned against it, but I am not having any problem with it, other than the fact that I STILL can't find the c:\ and I can't get ANY of the *.exe files to do anything

    5. Re:YAY! by a.different.perspect · · Score: 2, Funny

      Let's all pull so-subjective-as-to-be-meaningless statements out of our butts in order to promote a "my distro is cooler than yours" dick-waving contest!

      I'm confused by your metaphors. Are you saying you pulled a dick out of your butt?

  2. Making me a Slacker again . . . . . by failure-man · · Score: 4, Funny

    I could:
    a) Get some work done tonight so I don't fail classes.
    or
    b) Install some new Slackware on my primary beast.

    I think I hear the torrent's call . . . . .

    1. Re:Making me a Slacker again . . . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      You will have plenty of time to do your homework, the torrents are slow as balls.

  3. I just installed 10.1 by Ximok · · Score: 3, Funny

    Crap, I held out for 2 weeks hoping they would come out with 10.2. So got tired of waiting, downloaded and installed 10.1 LAST NIGHT until 11:45! GRRRR.... I just wasted 2 cds on 10.1... Oh well, at least I don't have to download firefox now... seperately...

  4. I use Slack on all my home PCs... by zenmojodaddy · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... and the only big problem I have with it is that in order to get it just how I like it from a stock install, I have to do a lot of customisation. This is one of Slack's strengths - it's easy to tweak - but it does take time.

    From time to time I think about trying a Slack-based distribution which is focused more narrowly on desktop use, but the package selections are never quite right... so I'd end up trying to tweak them as well. In which case, might as well stay with the original.

    Ah, Slackware. Frustrating. Beautiful. Just like a woman, but without the breasts. And, in all probability, the closest most of us will ever get to a woman.