Slackware 13.0 Released

willy everlearn and several other readers let us know that Slackware 13.0 is out. "Wed Aug 26 10:00:38 CDT 2009: Slackware 13.0 x86_64 is released as stable! Thanks to everyone who helped make this release possible — see the RELEASE_NOTES for the credits. The ISOs are off to the replicator. This time it will be a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. We're taking pre-orders now at store.slackware.com. Please consider picking up a copy to help support the project. Once again, thanks to the entire Slackware community for all the help testing and fixing things and offering suggestions during this development cycle. As always, have fun and enjoy!"

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Purpose

[JohnFluxx]

Does Slackware have a real purpose? From the outside, it seems slackware is for people who don't like/understand deb/rpm packages for whatever reason. Are there any other advantages

Re:Purpose

[bluefoxlucid]

Profits are the only indication of if something is "successful" in the sense we're discussing. Fitness for any purpose is not a prerequisite for 100 people to work on something retarded, nor is profit. Also Slackware gets forked because Slackware fans figure it'll be good for a non-updatable appliance platform, such as the Sguil installer, which comes with custom hand-built MySQL in odd locations and tons of garbage in /usr/local (hand-built snort/barnyard) instead of the relevant Slackware packages; using THAT is a huge god damn security nightmare, trying to upgrade it is a maintainability nightmare.

Re:So...

[petrus4]

Thanks. It's just too bad I still got modded Flamebait.

I suspect the moderator was the usual moronic Debian fanboy who recognised himself in my words, and became understandably upset as a result.

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