Here's what Einstein did: At the turn of the century (1900) physicists were up against something inexplicable. The observations seemed wrong, and they were like white rats in a maze looking for the cheese. Einstein said: the observations are reality; this way to the cheese. A few decades later, when Einstein was one of the signers of that letter to FDR, nobody was laughing; it was a very solumn thing.
I was always curious about that shortage. I've been seeking employment for 20 years. I've written bios's, compilers, assemblers, debuggers, a 32-bit operating system, a high-level language (to hit the highlights). My system compiler compiles in less time than it takes to just make a copy of the source. I didn't read the Dragon book or anything; I invented everything as I went along. In hardware I've built tons of stuff including a Multibus controller without data, just by scoping the signals. I've reverse engineered binaries to repair them and port them to different systems. There is no employment opportunity for those with 160 IQ and can do anything. My employment history was in nuclear underground testing, so when I apply someplace they say they don't have a nuclear department. I never touched anything nuclear, I created all types of gadgetry, electronic & otherwise. My daily product was things never before done by human hands. Can they use someone like this? Obviously not.
Hi Pat, There are some myths going around about Slackware: (1) "Lacks easy installation" Slack is the easiest of all distros to install. I have timed myself, and I can install Slack in 6 minutes (this includes the loading time of the boot/root floppies). I've installed around 10 other distros, and none are as easy as Slack. (2) "Lacks easy maintainability" At the factory, how many people does it take to maintain RH or SuSE, and how many does it take to (not quite) maintain Debian? Now how many does it take to maintain Slack? If far fewer people are able to produce the quality that we all observe in Slackware, then I would think that the package management techniques are correct. (question) I think the only thing lacking in Slack is promotion. Since you have some helpers now, do any of them have a flair for (and plans for) some promotion?
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Here's what Einstein did: At the turn of the century (1900) physicists were up against something inexplicable. The observations seemed wrong, and they were like white rats in a maze looking for the cheese. Einstein said: the observations are reality; this way to the cheese. A few decades later, when Einstein was one of the signers of that letter to FDR, nobody was laughing; it was a very solumn thing.
Just like room-temperature fusion.
I was always curious about that shortage. I've been seeking employment for 20 years. I've written bios's, compilers, assemblers, debuggers, a 32-bit operating system, a high-level language (to hit the highlights). My system compiler compiles in less time than it takes to just make a copy of the source. I didn't read the Dragon book or anything; I invented everything as I went along. In hardware I've built tons of stuff including a Multibus controller without data, just by scoping the signals. I've reverse engineered binaries to repair them and port them to different systems. There is no employment opportunity for those with 160 IQ and can do anything. My employment history was in nuclear underground testing, so when I apply someplace they say they don't have a nuclear department. I never touched anything nuclear, I created all types of gadgetry, electronic & otherwise. My daily product was things never before done by human hands. Can they use someone like this? Obviously not.
Hi Pat, There are some myths going around about Slackware: (1) "Lacks easy installation" Slack is the easiest of all distros to install. I have timed myself, and I can install Slack in 6 minutes (this includes the loading time of the boot/root floppies). I've installed around 10 other distros, and none are as easy as Slack. (2) "Lacks easy maintainability" At the factory, how many people does it take to maintain RH or SuSE, and how many does it take to (not quite) maintain Debian? Now how many does it take to maintain Slack? If far fewer people are able to produce the quality that we all observe in Slackware, then I would think that the package management techniques are correct. (question) I think the only thing lacking in Slack is promotion. Since you have some helpers now, do any of them have a flair for (and plans for) some promotion?