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Slackware, Oldest Actively Maintained GNU/Linux Distribution, Turns 25
sombragris writes: Slackware, the oldest GNU/Linux distribution which is still actively maintained, turned 25 this week. The latest stable version, Slackware 14.2, was released two years ago, but the development version (-current) is updated on a fast pace. Today the development version offers kernel 4.14.55, gcc 8.1.1, glibc 2.27. mesa 18.1.4, xorg 1.20, and the Xfce and KDE desktop environments as default, with many more available as third-party packages. Other points of note are that Slackware is systemd-free, opting instead for a simple BSD-style init.
Since its first release ever, this has been a distro with a strong following due to its hallmarks of simplicity, speed, ease of maintenance and configuration. Happy birthday Slackware!
Since its first release ever, this has been a distro with a strong following due to its hallmarks of simplicity, speed, ease of maintenance and configuration. Happy birthday Slackware!
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You still don't know that systemd is modular? Do you even understand the difference between a compilation unit, and a binary distro package? Doesn't your distro also include source packages?
Me, if I had whiny complaints about software I'd at least want to understand the basic vocabulary so as not to be a complete ass, but obviously YMMV.
I will say that I'm glad that systemd works fine with SysV init scripts, because I wouldn't want to rewrite the ones I already have, but that said, I sure as fuck wouldn't want to be stuck writing new ones when there is an option.
Do you know why distro maintainers don't split systemd's compilation units into different distro packages? Because none of the whiners even have a use case. It turns out, 100% of their problems are based on being aliterate and not reading the friendly manual.
And if you don't know what aliterate means, please post a reply telling me I spelled illiterate wrong, I could use a good belly-laugh.