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Slackware 12.0 Released
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."
Slack is great for reasons other than this..
Slack's great for setting up tight servers in which you know every program running and where it's at.
Its also go for when you know how to set up a speed-server in which you need it up in 20 minutes.
If you want to change anything past what's on the CD, go get the source for each program it requires. There's soo much time wasted on that... if you can find the sources for that specific module..
Go Debian/Ubuntu. I like my package archives.
Yeah I'm so lame I've been root for ... woo 12 years now. No I'll just crank in slak rather than surf a menu system to allow me to be what the fuck I am.
... just ask for an account eh'.
I keep a user account for ssh etc but at home I'm root. Here's a hint turn it off if you aint using it. Turn it on when you need it.
The only fools who have come close to rooting me lost 3 class C networks, heh on advertising.com yet, and became friends. Don't try to root me
I've used Slackware since the beginning (just after the SLS days). Recently I tried to install it on a high-end server. I was appalled to discover that Slackware does not support (at least not out of the box) 3ware RAID controllers. If you're serious about setting up a server, a hardware RAID controller is essential. 3ware makes some of the best that their Linux support is good.
Another gripe about Slackware is the lack of large file support. Unbelievable as it may sound, Slackware does not yet fully support large (>2GB) files.
Despite the above, I'm going to grab this latest release and play with it. I've got Slackware installed on 3 of my boxes now. Maybe I'll upgrade one of them to see what's new.
Come on come on come on.. I have read through these post and a vast majority of them sound like they come from windows cry babies... "oh I have to build this" "you have to build it" "too hard"... "I need a GUI installer" WTF.. Get windows lazies... I use Slack for those very reasons.. Most of my systems are self complied. Custom wares, custom kernels, max hacks.. My main computer is extremely fast and stable beyond all belief.. I have tried other distros Strangely they reminded me of windows with all their silly issues and lack of hardware support. With Slackware if I have issues, need something or just want to test something it is just to plain easy to build it in Slack.. That is if you have your system configured correctly to do just that. Of course the way people here cry about Slack being "hard" I doubt they even customize their own kernels to their machines... Windows lovers.. Go figure...