I am saddened by the unprofessional nature of the Slackware distribution in comparison to the more highly evolved NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD competitors. A more organized approach at operating system development on behalf of the Slackware team is necessary if it hopes to retain a following of serious researchers and developers, and not fourteen year old neophyte happy hackers. A publically accessible CVS repository should be created, in addition to creating a ports tree and a more sophisticated, robust, and scalable packages implementation. You also need to support ftp installs (with additional DHCP support). Your software updates and security issue responses are anything but timely. You have catching up to do if you expect to play with the big dogs. Even though many feel Slackware is the best Linux distribution, do not let that go to your head. Linux is still an infant compared to the BSDs. The code is hacked together, unaudited as far as a thorough OS-wide assessment goes, and up to date documentation is virtually non-existant. Those are my gripes, and the gripes of many Unix users. What are your plans for the future to remain professional and competitive in the Linux workstation and server markets?
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I am saddened by the unprofessional nature of the Slackware distribution in comparison to the more highly evolved NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD competitors. A more organized approach at operating system development on behalf of the Slackware team is necessary if it hopes to retain a following of serious researchers and developers, and not fourteen year old neophyte happy hackers. A publically accessible CVS repository should be created, in addition to creating a ports tree and a more sophisticated, robust, and scalable packages implementation. You also need to support ftp installs (with additional DHCP support). Your software updates and security issue responses are anything but timely. You have catching up to do if you expect to play with the big dogs. Even though many feel Slackware is the best Linux distribution, do not let that go to your head. Linux is still an infant compared to the BSDs. The code is hacked together, unaudited as far as a thorough OS-wide assessment goes, and up to date documentation is virtually non-existant. Those are my gripes, and the gripes of many Unix users. What are your plans for the future to remain professional and competitive in the Linux workstation and server markets?