In the days before we began to lose our collective societal mind, the wielder of the tool was completely liable for any damage resulting from his wielding of ANY tool, no matter who owned or manufactured that tool.
But greedy lawyers, looking for deep pockets to pick have slowly but surely taken us to the place we are now...
The one with the deepest pocket is liable of course -- otherwise how would the lawyers ever make an 'honest' living ?
I feel like a frog in a pot of cool water... Is it me or is it getting warm in here ?
Again and again I've heard people like you suggest that Slackware is a replacement for a modern mainstream distro like Debian. Others suggest Gentoo.
Well, the reality is that neither is sufficient.
Slackware is, to put it politely, very primitive. While simplicity is a good thing, Slackware takes it to the point where it becomes a liability.
When using Debian, it's possible to get a full-featured desktop or server set up with very little effort, and this can be done quickly. Thanks to sensible defaults and a practical installer, manual configuration is kept to a minimum.
Slackware, on the other hand, requires far too much manual intervention just to get a minimally usable system set up...
A.C. --
Please define primitive, very little effort and manual intervention.
I can have a fully functioning Slackware system up and running in 30 min, including formatting the HDD with very little manual intervention.
Slackware 14.2 is about to be released. It boots either BIOS or EFI and runs Linux 4.4.11 and a number of Desktop Environments, all without systemd.
There is now a set of 'slackware live' ISO images where I can run with persistence and optionally encrypted from a USB Drive:
a complete 64bit Slackware-current Live Edition (in a 2.6 GB ISO); a slimmed-down XFCE ISO (700 MB) with XDM as the graphical login manager. It fits on a CDROM medium or a 1 GB USB stick; an ISO image (3.1 GB) of Slackware64-current containing Plasma 5 instead of KDE 4, with an addition of several other packages from the alienBOB repositories: vlc, libreoffice, calibre, qbittorrent, ffmpeg, chromium, openjdk, veracrypt. a Mate variant (1.7 GB) where KDE 4 has been replaced by Mate (a Gnome 2 fork); a Cinnamon flavour (a fork of the Gnome 3 Shell replacing Slackware's KDE 4). a Custom variant which you can give your own name, its own package list and custom post-install configuration.
When I like what I see, there is an option to install liveslak to the HDD.
As I said Slackware 14.2 is about to be released. This version has succeeded in leaving systemd out while still being able to run the most recent releases of upstream Apps.
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woop-de-freakin-do
Is that kinda like setting your watch while sitting on the couch while your house is burning down ?
When are they going to replace that abomination of a user interface with something more usable ?
Say maybe like Win7 or anything older than that ?
-- kjh
All we have to do is move back into caves which is what the eco extremists really want.for everyone but themselves ...
On second thought, I believe they want we, the unwashed masses to move back into trees and to forget that we know how to make fire.
Yeah ... that's it !
Please, please please Intel, provide a mechanism to COMPLETELY disable the IME BackDoor in your CPUs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine/ )
Nope.
I gave up on FF last year and I've been a happy PaleMoon User since Dec 2016.
I would certainly consider abandoning Standard Time but abandon Daylight Saving Time ?
Not so much.
That water wouldn't be from Flint MI now would it ?
Deprecate the GO Language ?
Hoo Boy ...
I can see it now ... systemd.adduser is coming right up because All'Y'All are stupid -- everyone knows UserNames do not begin with Digits !
-- kjh
this affects Linux Kernel versions 4.11.5 and earlier (the stackguard page was introduced in 2010).
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000364/
-- kjh
All --
I don't believe that this vulnerability applies to Slackware ARM on a Raspberry Pi http://sarpi.fatdog.eu/ as it does not include a pi user ...
-- kjh
Thanks for the info swimboy !
Not looking to replace Cable but to augment it with internet content.
-- kjh
The WeTek Play Box looks pretty nice but ...
I can't tell ... does it even work in the USA ?
Thanks.
-- kjh
Hmmm ?
This simply means that the reactor was able to successfully generate a molten mass of electrically-charged gas â" plasma â" inside its core
Joseph --
I run Linux as my Primary OS and have been doing so for 20 years now.
You posted a 'gotcha':
I just need something to work with the mechanical equipment it controls.
What exactly does that mean ?
How do you presently 'work with the mechanical equipment it controls' ?.
Is it a 'Windows-ONLY' App, a Browser-Based WebApp, what ?
If it is Windows-ONLY, you're stuck with that Windows.exe program.
Maybe it will work in WINE or a VM but you have to figure that out for yourself,
If it is a Browser-Based WebApp, you'll probably be OK.
Then there are all the 'oh yeah, I do that too' Apps like OutLook and Word and the like.
Those will annoy you too.
I run Slackware Linux as my main OS and VMWare Workstation for all the nasty Windows-Only tools I have to have for my job.
Slackware is a little more work to set up, but once it's configured, you'll not suffer WTF's where things suddenly stop working for no good reason.
HTH
-- kjh
A self driving car is a tool.
In the days before we began to lose our collective societal mind, the wielder of the tool was completely liable for any damage resulting from his wielding of ANY tool, no matter who owned or manufactured that tool.
But greedy lawyers, looking for deep pockets to pick have slowly but surely taken us to the place we are now ...
The one with the deepest pocket is liable of course -- otherwise how would the lawyers ever make an 'honest' living ?
I feel like a frog in a pot of cool water ... Is it me or is it getting warm in here ?
-- kjh
And I feel myself being pushed thru my chair by a strange force located someplace above my head ... wtf is this strange repulsive force ?
Geebus !
Yeah and the CNet Site has that infernal AutoPlay on ...
What is the difference between their Site and WinDOS 10 ?
-- kjh
The poor bastards will be freezing in the dark in 2024
I understand that this is simply the installer, but the 4.7.x Kernel recently went EoL ...
https://www.kernel.org/.
-- kjh
I suppose this means that the answer to the ancient Question:: Does the light in the 'fridge really go out when I close the door is: NO :)
Again and again I've heard people like you suggest that Slackware is a replacement for a modern mainstream distro like Debian. Others suggest Gentoo.
Well, the reality is that neither is sufficient.
Slackware is, to put it politely, very primitive. While simplicity is a good thing, Slackware takes it to the point where it becomes a liability.
When using Debian, it's possible to get a full-featured desktop or server set up with very little effort, and this can be done quickly. Thanks to sensible defaults and a practical installer, manual configuration is kept to a minimum.
Slackware, on the other hand, requires far too much manual intervention just to get a minimally usable system set up ...
A.C. --
Please define primitive, very little effort and manual intervention.
I can have a fully functioning Slackware system up and running in 30 min, including formatting the HDD with very little manual intervention.
Slackware 14.2 is about to be released. It boots either BIOS or EFI and runs Linux 4.4.11 and a number of Desktop Environments, all without systemd.
There is now a set of 'slackware live' ISO images where I can run with persistence and optionally encrypted from a USB Drive:
http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:liveslak/
When I like what I see, there is an option to install liveslak to the HDD.
As I said Slackware 14.2 is about to be released. This version has succeeded in leaving systemd out while still being able to run the most recent releases of upstream Apps.
Have you actually looked at Slackware ?
There's a lot to like.
-- kjh
Except that US Tax Rates are too high ...
Microsoft said: "With the free Windows 10 upgrade offer ending on 29 July, we want to help people upgrade to the best version of Windows ...
trust us ...
yes