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!"

Comments

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

[ground.zero.612]

If you want pure CLI and pointless design welcome to Unix / FreeBSD, A system for those who want headaches, pain and broken packages.

I've been running FreeBSD in production for 6+ years and quite honestly unless there is a specific OSS package that isn't maintained in ports and refuses to compile; I have no reason what-so-ever to use Linux in its place. It's far more stable, far more secure, and people running production servers hardly need to waste precious resources on a GUI to make things "easier" for the uneducated.

While your last statement is clearly flamebait, I'll bite. Windows is great for the average PC and workstation user. It integrates well into many environments and in recent years has made strides to improve security and resource management. FreeBSD is great in the server room for it's rock solid stability and security, and was one of the building blocks for the popular PC OS, Apple Mac OS X. Linux is trying to fill many niches and as such, has uses in the server room, and on workstations. However, Linux is hardly usable for the majority of computer users because most (all?) distributions are incapable of attaining licenses to the many proprietary applications that the majority of people want/need to use. Linux is, point blank, one of the biggest jokes in OS and computing history. The sad part is it still has potential.

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.

Re:Bow before The King, f001

[Anonymous Coward]

Ha ha. You're posting at 1 now. You burned your +1 karma with your gay little rants last night about the "true definition" of hacker. Hopefully you will continue the trend until you are at -1.

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