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Slackware: I'm Not Dead Yet!

Posted by timothy on from the dude-it's-just-temporarily-slack dept.

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."

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  1. Debian by Svartormr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you want a reliable distro that will survive every other distro, you go with Debian. The developers fight like cats and dogs and it just keeps going on, getting better and better.

    1. Re:Debian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      There must be some level of agreement given that the Project Lead (Stefano Zachiroli) was just re-elected to his third term in a row.

      Debian forever!

  2. Re:It hurt bad when Stampede Linux was no more. by TWX · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I had never even heard of Stampede Linux when you posted this, and I've been a Linux user since 1995 when I had to buy cheap CDs from the local computer store that were distributed by Walnut Creek. It's obscure enough that Wikipedia doesn't even have a page for it.

    Slackware has at least has the history to have been continually in existence since '93, almost since the beginning of Linux itself. Mind you, I and a whole bunch of other people jumped ship over the Libc5 debacle and I ended up on Debian where I've remained since. I would be saddened to see Slackware go away, but it wouldn't lead to a loss of purpose in my life.

    You wouldn't happen to be Matt Wood, would you?

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  3. Re:not until by slackware+3.6 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Slackware will never die. I still have my Walnut Creek CD's from Slackware 3.6 the only other software I kept from that period is Win 3.11, OS/2, and a few DOS versions. But your post is funy none the less you probably are a big Slackware fan.

  4. Re:We're not dead, but an old server is. by phantomfive · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wow, do you need us to take up a collection to buy new hardware? Is there somewhere we can go to donate?

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  5. Re:What happened to Patty boy? by lightknight · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Holy hell.

    Slackware Linux, 13.37 CDROM set $ 49.95

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  6. Re:We're not dead, but an old server is. by Nethead · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oh, and Pat, your /. UID is old enough to have used images.slashdot.org which was a Pent 90 box running slackware that I setup in Seattle at Wolfe.net when /. saturated their T1. Slackware was a big part of how /. got started.

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