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Slackware 13.0 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the fresh-bits dept.

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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  1. Re:Purpose by donaggie03 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, one can never have too much Slack.

    I can think of a few bungee jumpers who would beg to differ.

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  2. Games by Das+Auge · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Some friends of mine smoked a monitor once, but I didn't inhale.

    2. Re:Games by BlackSnake112 · · Score: 2, Funny

      At an old job we were told the only way to get a new monitor was if the old one broke. The new monitors were 17 or 19 inches while the old ones were 15 inches. I had just bought a number 9 imagine 8 MB video card (it was good back in 1996 even though it is nothing today). Install the video card, load up correct drivers. And look at all the options we now have. It was strange how every 15 inch monitor broke one after the other. A few even set of the smoke alarm.

  3. Re:Much as I like Slackware... by Gothmolly · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know that "Ubuntu" is Swahili for "too lazy to install Slackware" right ?

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  4. Re:Purpose by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Debian package management is divine.

    You're a sick man.

  5. Re:Purpose by Haxzaw · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:Purpose by Joe+Jay+Bee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Talking of Mach, that joke just flew over your head at at least twice the speed of sound.

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