Slackware: I'm Not Dead Yet!

New submitter xclr8r writes "The longtime tinkering and learning distro of Linux Slackware found itself at the center of rumors and speculation when its website was down for a few days. Caitlyn Martin, developer of Linux Yarok, voiced concerns in DistroWatch and declared that she would be basing the new project off a distro with a more secure future. Meanwhile contributors continued to plug along with additions to the change log. Eventually Eric Hameleers expanded on his initial communication of 'old hardware — lack of funds' to a more thorough explanation quoted in the article. Have your pop up blocker ready."

Comments

not until

[hguorbray]

netcraft confirms it!

-I'm just sayin'

Re:not until

[Anonymous Coward]

Distrowatch: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
Slashdot: Yes he is.
Slackware: I'm not.
Distrowatch: He isn't.
Slashdot: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
Slackware: I'm getting better.
Slashdot: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Distrowatch: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
Slackware: I don't want to go on the cart.
Slashdot: Oh, don't be such a baby.
Distrowatch: I can't take him.
Slackware: I feel fine.
Slashdot: Oh, do me a favor.

Re:not until

[The Grim Reefer]

I still have my Walnut Creek CD's from Slackware 3.6

Oh. So just those disks.

the only other software I kept from that period is Win 3.11

Of course.

, OS/2,

And that.

and a few DOS versions.

So basically you still have every bit of software you've ever owned.

Re:not until

[Hognoxious]

I'm running Ubuntu Norwegian Blue. To be honest, the uptimes aren't great.

Re:not until

[VanessaE]

Perhaps, but the plumage must be lovely :-)

It hurt bad when Stampede Linux was no more.

[Anonymous Coward]

It can hurt pretty badly when your favorite Linux distribution comes to an end. I've lived through this horrid experience once before, with Stampede Linux. We were as close as a man and Linux could get. I ran it on all of my PCs. Then one day it was no more, and I was destroyed. For several months, I had no purpose in life. But eventually the pain does go away, and I found other Linux distributions. I'm using Debian now, and while it isn't as glorious as Stampede Linux was, at least it's still Linux.

Re:It hurt bad when Stampede Linux was no more.

[jimmydevice]

I thought that was a prerequisite for posting on /.

Re:Correction

[Anonymous Coward]

yeah, slackware might not be dead, but slashdot sure as fuck is

slashdotting slackware.com is like

[FudRucker]

entering an 85 year old man in to the WWF

I invoke the *Not Dead Yet* clause all the time

[Trikenstein]

but I use it for leering at much younger women
(sometimes I even flirt)

Still end up with a bent nose sometimes tho

and every once and awhile I get that moment where you yell *Wee-Haa There's a naked woman in my bed*

Re:I invoke the *Not Dead Yet* clause all the time

[lister king of smeg]

slipping ruffies to people is a crime you know.

Re:We're not dead, but an old server is.

[volkerdi]

Yo man, are you the deadhead I'm thinking you're supposed to be?

My name is August West.

Re:We're not dead, but an old server is.

[Anonymous Coward]

With a Slashdot ID that low it might really be Adam West!

Re:Debian

[Anonymous Coward]

What does debian's survivability have anything to do with slackware's webserver going down

Everything if Slackware's webserver is running Debian.

Re:We're not dead, but an old server is.

[Tumbleweed]

With a Slashdot ID that low it might really be Adam West!

Don't believe him; he's a liar.

Re:Correction

[Anonymous Coward]

there just around ~25 letters in the alphabet?

You must be a physicist.

Re:What happened to Patty boy?

[kelemvor4]

He's fine now and has been for a while. He got sick because of poor oral hygiene.

That must have been one nasty set of chompers. I've known people who brushed.. maybe monthly, but it was nowhere near enough to actually get them sick.

Re:Debian

[Anonymous Coward]

Debian is especially good if you are a historian and want to know what open source computing was like five years ago...

Re:We're not dead, but an old server is.

[metrix007]

Because cloud is a meaningless buzzword which means "computer on the internet".

Re:What happened to Patty boy?

[Anonymous Coward]

I never brush. No biggie. It only starts bleeding if I do.

Once I went without showering for 3 months. I think the skin has odor control built in. People who shower often, like just about every normal person, start smelling bad after a day or three without a shower, but just hang in there and don't cave for these "shower" modernities.

Re:what the hell is yarok?

[ClickOnThis]

what the hell is shampoo?

It's an emacs command: ESC-x shampoo (ESC-2 ESC-x shampoo to lather, rinse and repeat.)

Oh geez ... I was joking. Now I find out that it actually is an emacs command. Dammit, emacs.