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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!"
Growing up, Rob Malda was always self-conscious about being the smallest kid in hisc lass. Mom made it worse by always begging him to eat bigger meals.
"Rob, look at all these people staring at me," she whispered to me one day on the bus. "They're wondering why I don't feed you more."
When I was 13, my father got a job transfer from Calgary, Alberta to Thunder Bay, Ontario. That was a rough transition for me. I was just starting high school, and it was frightening.
The first day in my new school, a guy named Bill invited me to his church. I'd gone to Sunday School sporadically, and knew it would be a good place to find some new friends. So I started going every week with him to the United Church just down the hill from our school.
Later, in our Grade 10 Sunday School class, we were invited to a special six-week series of classes, to be followed by a special confirmation service for those who wanted to join the church.
I'll never forget the sermon that Sunday morning, as I sat in the front pew with my class. "You're not joining a club," the minister told us. "What you're really doing is giving your lives to Jesus Christ, asking Him to come in and take control." I'd never heard that before.
"God," I prayed, "if You're really there, I invite You to come into my life. Please forgive me for my sins, and help me become the person You want me to be."
As I prayed, something happened. Deep inside came an assurance that God was real, and I was overwhelmed with the feel- ing of being loved. I knew for sure that God loved me, little John Howard. It was an amazing experience.
After that service in April, 1963, I went to every possible church activity. I had a new hunger to read the Bible and pray. Church was suddenly a very important part of my life.
But at the same time, something else was happening, something hidden and troubling. As a young teen, I discovered a pile of old sporting magazines down in the basement. Flipping the pages, I was drawn to the Charles Atlas ads. Looking at the muscular body-builders, I thought: Now that's what a real man looks like. I wish I could look like that.
Later, I accidentally discovered another magazine in a corner store, filled with scantily-clad men in seductive poses. I felt fascinated and sexually-aroused. Somehow I knew these feelings were wrong.
Thus, an inner conflict began that would continue for almost 20 years. On the one hand I prayed that God would take away these feelings for other men, while on the other I continued to find them enjoyable. I was too ashamed to tell anyone else what was happening inside me.
I had a lot of girlfriends during high school and felt very comfortable around them. Despite the increasing sexual desire for other guys, I assumed I'd eventually get married.
Then through school and church I met a girl named Vicki and we started dating. We married when we were both 21, but the conflict inside of me only increased. Often I'd have homosexual fantasies while I was being intimate with my wife, and secretly sought out magazines and books to feed my homosexual desires.
By this time, I was in seminary, training for the ministry. Vicki and I had our first daughter in 1972, then adopted a son. Later we had another girl. I deeply loved my wife and children, but the lustful thoughts were out of control. Although I didn't want to lose my family, I felt an increasing desire to act out my homosexual feelings, to see if reality was the same as fantasy.
In the summer of 1974 on my way home from a conference, I was delayed in Winnipeg. Instead of staying with friends, I went to a hostel which had the reputation for homosexual activity.
Another man approached me for sex. After he left my room, I headed for the showers. I felt so guilty and dirty--and also afraid that I might have caught some kind of venereal disease.
Later that night, I knelt beside the bed and prayed. "God, I'm so sorry. Please forgive me for this awful sin. I promise I'll never do it again. And please take awa
Is it just my observation, or is eldavojohn an idiot?
Its purpose is to be an absolute garbage, unpolished Linux distribution. You may as well LFS.
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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 think this says it all right here. You're either a kid, an amateur, or just plain stupid.
I've been an enterprise admin for a couple of decades and I've been buying the distro sets for years. It does what I want, when I want, flawlessly. If you don't know Linux (and if you can't configure Slack then you don't), then go run Ubuntu or one of the other Playskool/Fisher Price distros.
Hint: nobody cares, son.
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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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