There is a hacker manifesto. Although I am not directly farmiliar with the sorce you quoted, I do know there have been several manifestos, with only two ones I'd (IMHO) consider genuine. There is the hacker statement as dictated by the origional MIT hackers in the circa 1960's, and there is the "The Conscience of a Hacker: the Hacker's Manifesto" Written by the Mentor(aka the Neuromancer) in 1986, which was written following his arrest. It was published in Phrack Magizine, issue #7. Both are worth the effort to find and read.
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Slackware is still by far the most stable and non bloated Linux Distrobution out in existance. It is the most straightforeword to install, and since it avoids using dependencies, it makes upgrading software alot easier. The only two issues with the Slackware distro would be lack of glibc and an FTP installation. Since one can load glib themselves, It's not that major of a problem.
the other benifit of Slackware is the fact that it's about as grassroots as you can get. Patrick V. Does a tremendous job, and even entertained some comments of mine (that in retrospect are kind of uneducated) with the utmost sincerety and accuracy that one would expect when talking to someone in person.
I have used slackware since 3.1, have played with Redhat and Caldera, and still faithfully use Slackware. keep up the excellent work.
Alan Cox outlined some tremendous points in his essay. There is definatly a level of balance that must be retained in order to keep linux the lean piece of code that it is, and not bloated. It is extremely important to remember linux's roots of being a hacker-based operating system- its only worth what you put into it. It's very easy for someone to say that "oh, Linux is going corperate, its over influenced by money, and is no longer worth it," etc. instead of writing the that new device driver module or putting out an application for the masses to use. I'll be the first to admit that I had no clue what I was doing when I picked up a copy of slackware 3.0 and threw it on to my old 386.. Now I'm programming, and I'm striving to get to the point where I can give a little back to Linux. Shouldn't we all try and do the same? I'm not saying that every linux user should be the next Alan Cox, but there's no reason why even the average user can't find a way to help out the cause. Money does talk, but can never go as far as someone who believes in what they do. Have a little faith in the concept behind linux, Do what you can, and linux will be fine.
..and yes, I am still a proud user of the Slackware distrobution
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There is a hacker manifesto. Although I am not directly farmiliar with the sorce you quoted, I do know there have been several manifestos, with only two ones I'd (IMHO) consider genuine. There is the hacker statement as dictated by the origional MIT hackers in the circa 1960's, and there is the "The Conscience of a Hacker: the Hacker's Manifesto" Written by the Mentor(aka the Neuromancer) in 1986, which was written following his arrest. It was published in Phrack Magizine, issue #7. Both are worth the effort to find and read.
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Janus Dissonation is watching.
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Slackware is still by far the most stable and non
bloated Linux Distrobution out in existance. It
is the most straightforeword to install, and since
it avoids using dependencies, it makes upgrading
software alot easier. The only two issues with
the Slackware distro would be lack of glibc and
an FTP installation. Since one can load glib
themselves, It's not that major of a problem.
the other benifit of Slackware is the fact that
it's about as grassroots as you can get. Patrick
V. Does a tremendous job, and even entertained some comments of mine (that in retrospect are kind of uneducated) with the utmost sincerety and
accuracy that one would expect when talking to
someone in person.
I have used slackware since 3.1, have played with
Redhat and Caldera, and still faithfully use
Slackware. keep up the excellent work.
Alan Cox outlined some tremendous points in his
essay. There is definatly a level of balance that must be retained in order to keep linux the lean
piece of code that it is, and not bloated. It is extremely important to remember linux's roots
of being a hacker-based operating system- its only worth what you put into it. It's very easy for someone to say that "oh, Linux is going corperate, its over influenced by money, and is no longer worth it," etc. instead of writing the that new device driver module or putting out an application for the masses to use. I'll be the first to admit that I had no clue what I was doing when I picked
up a copy of slackware 3.0 and threw it on to my old 386.. Now I'm programming, and I'm striving to get to the point where I can give a little back to Linux. Shouldn't we all try and do the same? I'm not saying that every linux user should be the next Alan Cox, but there's no reason why even the average user can't find a way to help out the cause. Money does talk, but can never go as far as someone who believes in what they do. Have a little faith in the concept behind linux, Do what you can, and linux will be fine.
..and yes, I am still a proud user of the Slackware distrobution