Slackware 11 Has Been Released

CCFreak2K writes "Slackware 11 has been officially released, just over a year after Slackware 10.2 became available. Software available with Slackware 11 includes KDE 3.5, Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.5 and X11R6 6.9. As usual, ISOs are available through BitTorrent and FTPs, packages can be synced through FTPs, and you can always buy a copy."

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I see...

[trezor]

Slackware 11 is now out and all the 28 remaining Slackware users in this world rejoiced.

Seriously. Why would anyone use this one a production system or even for playing at home. The only thing Slackware is good for is learning a little about how Linux works, then you move on to a distro that allows you to get things done.

I know all the (28) Slackware fanboys will mod me to oblivion for this, but seriously. It's a piece of shit compared to anything else released the last 6 years, and yes, that includes Redhat.

Re:But how

[Mr. Underbridge]

long is Pat going to live before all hell breaks loose and Slackware becomes another Debian? Slackware is ancient enough already...

Yeah, it would be much better if it had a mission statement, a philosophy, a logo, its own color, and a bunch of annoying splash screens everywhere. Oh, and it should change its name to something that means something vaguely nice in some African language.

*Then* it'll be a real l33+ distro.

Allow me to reprhase that

[trezor]

If you like Gnome in Ubuntu, you will like Gnome on any other distro too. Except on Slackware you have to wait a little for binaries that wasn't compiled for a 15 year old architecture, unless ofcourse you feel like compiling it yourself.

If you like how things just work in Ubuntu, you will loath the sight of Slackware, regardless of version for it's total lack of decent packagemagement or configuration tools.

For the record, I use Debian, FreeBSD, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. All OSes I am very happy about for their respective qualities. IMO Slackware has none.

hold on there buddy

[bogie]

"Ubuntu is a great answer to a tough problem, how to make Linux useful for complete newbies)."

I'm sorry but I disagree with you on a fundamental level about *nix and learning. IMHO slackware and the rest of the *nixs are broken at the very core in that they require learning to be useful. Somewhere from many years ago there is a post by me here about ease of use and OS's. Basically what I had said is that the ultimate goal of any OS should be to be usable by anyone for anything. In a perfect world the learning curve for and OS is nil and it simply gets out of the way. You should be concentrating on the fact that OS's like Slackaware are broken and not done yet vs the fact that they serve as a learning tool for other "broken" OS's like the one's you mention. I hate to sound like GWB here but if you disagree with me your simply wrong. Your way is masochism and my way is the future of OS design.