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Slackware Linux 14.1 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the brand-new dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to the official announcement, Slackware 14.1 includes the following: 'Slackware 14.1 brings many updates and enhancements, among which you'll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: Xfce 4.10.1, a fast and lightweight but visually appealing and easy to use desktop environment, and KDE 4.10.5, a recent stable release of the 4.10.x series of the award-winning KDE desktop environment.' Installation ISOs can be found here."

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  1. amused that they talk about the DT environs by themushroom · · Score: 3, Informative

    when real Slackware users only use command lines :)

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    Laughter is the Spackle of the Soul.
    1. Re:amused that they talk about the DT environs by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Funny

      when real Slackware users only use command lines :)

      Real Slackware users use a Desktop so they can run command line shells in six xterms simultaneously.

    2. Re:amused that they talk about the DT environs by Charliemopps · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, real slackware users use punch cards for input and have a single red blinking LED for output. Although I used to know this guy that shaved, thought he was better than the rest of us... he had a green LED. Fucking pretentious asshole he was.

    3. Re:amused that they talk about the DT environs by farrellj · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Actually, us Slackware Users us whatever the fsck we want, because we know how to do it all! CDE, KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, raw X, screen, and anything else we can dig up. We not only know how to use it, we customize it so that other users on the same machine have a hard time time using it! What's more, we probably also know how to use Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, SUSE, Debian, Arch, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS (7-10), and another dozen operating systems that most of you haven't heard of! We can even make Windows useful! We Kick OS BUTT!

      All single OS users must cringe in the shadow of our awesomeness!

      Really!

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    4. Re:amused that they talk about the DT environs by slack_justyb · · Score: 3, Interesting

      They put it there for the casual on-lookers. For whatever people bang on it, when you say Linux in an interview and they ask you which distro, you say Slackware. If you know how to hold it together with Slackware, things like installing 3rd party drivers from the command line on Ubuntu or SuSE or knowing the entire purpose of everything in /proc is the kinds of things they know you do 300% better asleep and drunk than most admins could muster running full steam.

      Here's to the release of yet another amazing version of the best Linux distro to date.

    5. Re:amused that they talk about the DT environs by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

      If he's a Slackware user, he's not fat; he's most likely ext2.

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      Ezekiel 23:20
  2. "Award-winning" by krkhan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please stop using arguably the most useless of marketing slogans. Every desktop environment which has been around long enough has won an award of some kind. (Yes, even Gnome.)

  3. Like the Eveready Rabbit by stox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It keeps going and going.

    True to its users.

    Congratulations, on another fine release, to the Slackware Team!

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    "To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
  4. Re:packages by rusty0101 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Good dependency management keeps track of such things for you over the long term as well. apt-get _will_ tell you of libraries that were installed in support of applications that you've since removed, and gives you the ability to remove those libraries as well with the auto-remove function. It does not automatically remove them with the application, which can leave cruft on your system, but has the advantage that if you've found the library handy for some program you're writing, but haven't explicitly toled the package management system that your app depends on it, you're not breaking your own application.

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    You never know...
  5. No its not by ArchieBunker · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The config files in Slackware are pretty straightforward. These days its near impossible to set up a Ubuntu or Debian install via the command line. Nothing but a pile of scripts that call for more scripts. When something doesn't work you can't even look in the logs because its not reported.

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    Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
  6. Re:Bundled with proprietary software... by Wild+Wizard · · Score: 3, Informative

    To get on that list you only have to include the full unmodified kernel.

    Since Slackware always uses the full unmodified kernel then it will always be there unless the kernel devs fix it up.

    I also believe there is a special agreement regarding the non-free program xv.