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Slackware 12.0 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the that's-two-ahead-of-os-x dept.

Matt writes "Straight from our good friend and colleague in the fight for quality distributions, Mr. Patrick Volkerding, comes a brand-new and eagerly-awaited release of Slackware, version 12. HAL automount, KDE 3.5.7 and XFCE 4.4.1, Xorg 7.2, 2.6 kernels as far as the eye can see, oodles of updated applications and utilities, and hardware support for just about anything under the sun. Get it here. Enjoy! I know I will."

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  1. Re:Am I the only one? by DynaSoar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > It is a bit hard to jump back into Slackware... The long hiatus a while back left me seeking other distros which I have stayed loyal to.

    No, you're probably not the only one. However, that opinion is the opposite as that of Jason1729 below, who states he gave it up due to too many updates and fixes, and he's probably not the only one to feel that way either. Between the two, Patrick is probably running at pretty much the right speed:

    From: Patrick J. Volkerding (bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu)
          Subject: ANNOUNCE: Slackware Linux 1.00
          Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
          Date: 1993-07-16 17:21:20 PST

      The Slackware Linux distribution (v. 1.00) is now available for
      anonymous FTP.....

    12 versions in 14 years, plus revisions between. All under his guidance. Most would have abandoned the effort sooner and with fewer releases, and probably due to doing so many in that time. Hell, most would have given up rather than rewrite it all in order to switch libraries.

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    "I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
  2. Slack Vs. Other Distro by deimios666 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you learn Ubuntu, you know Ubuntu. If you learn Slackware, you know Linux.

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    I think, therefore you are.
  3. Re:Not ideal for servers by ChipMonk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    $ cd
    $ dd if=/dev/zero of=8G bs=1048576 count=8192

    I dare you to tell me that command failed on your system, with space remaining on your partition containing /home.