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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!"
I know someone who uses OpenBSD for specific tasks, and still says Slackware is pointless garbage. It's rough and unpolished, and not suitable for production use. Many of us hold the same opinion of RHEL btw, it's not good just because it says "Enterprise" .... even Gentoo's better than Slackware, since you don't have to pick individual packages at installation etc etc etc (workable package management), but it does break itself a lot and isn't useful for production. Debian, SLES, Ubuntu, some others hold what you need for real use; I find Ubuntu best for the home desktop, though all three are useful in an enterprise environment, with SLES probably better than Ubuntu for enterprise desktops (Ubuntu's lacking in that department). RHEL (garbage) just may have the best enterprise integration, though.
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Not every user even on a Linux system needs to be able to use the shell and CLI. I mean it's a good idea but as long as you can pop open a termainal in a GUI and produce basic scripts you'll be fine.
If you want pure CLI and pointless design welcome to Unix / FreeBSD, A system for those who want headaches, pain and broken packages.
GNU / Linux is designed to work and work well for users that come up from either Windows or Unix. Linux is point blank the greatest OS in history or Computing bar none.
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I would argue that OS X is for people who have a better understanding of how the system fits together than many (but certainly not all!) of the Windows users. I use OS X in an Enterprise setting on 70+ servers that cover everything from email to web-hosting to firewalls to custom built "sales presentation" devices. For us, OS X gives us complete control over the systems, without having to guess at what other services or programs may muddle with different parts of the configuration. It's easy for us to disable and remove any services that are not necessary on a particular computer, and we have our own custom installation, testing, and deployment scripts that allow us to keep machines with similar purposes up to date and in sync. While we could accomplish the same things with Windows, OS X is (for us) the easiest to do these things with, and "Just Works".
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