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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!"
Yes, one can never have too much Slack.
I can think of a few bungee jumpers who would beg to differ.
Three days from now?? Thats tomorrow!! ~Peter Griffin
This time it will be a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD.
Slack is great but overweight. I'd rather have a more minimal distribution, preferably something that fits on a a single CD. That said, it lives up to expectations -- everything plus the kitchen sink.
In other words: Too large; didn't download. ;)
It comes with lots of cool games.
When I first gave Linux a try back 1998, I tried slackware. It came with a game called "X Server". If you won, you got to see pretty colors and stuff. If you lost, that's to say, if you set the refresh rate above what you monitor could take, you got a smoking monitor.
It was almost as scary as FEAR.
I read the headline and thought it said slashcode 13 released. For a split second there was much rejoicing. Then I wondered if it would include images of Jason. Then I realized it said Slackware and I went back to staring at the wall.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
Anyone who uses Slackware regularly understands much more about Linux than your average debian / ubuntu user, and is certainly not going to be burned by the "complexity" of a package management system. This is because much of the configuration is manual.
It's often quoted... if you use Ubuntu, you'll learn Ubuntu. If you use Slackware, you'll learn Linux.
I've been using Slackware since '96, and I continue to use it in various capacities today. Installing Slackware and playing with it, writing programs for it, was seriously the best thing I ever did for my knowledge of computers and for Unix environments. I have skills that far surpass any of my co-workers or friends, and have often been the only one that could sort out issues with any sort of Unix environment.
The true purpose of Slackware? Smugness.
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
You know that "Ubuntu" is Swahili for "too lazy to install Slackware" right ?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
You're a sick man.
Slackware is (for us) the easiest to do these things with, and "Just Works".
Hi, Steve Jobs here, please don't use my slogan, everyone knows that only MAC OS X "Just Works". By the way, please get Snow Leopard, it was just released today. You'll love it, I promise.
How about that Windows Distro, it doesn't seem to work like that. Also, is Windows Debian Based? I've heard that Debian is always way behind in updates and usability.
Talking of Mach, that joke just flew over your head at at least twice the speed of sound.
I write bullshit