To everyone who's had a hand in keeping this site going strong, thank you for doing News for Nerds *and* Stuff that Matters all these years. I'm pretty sure we'll be doing this again 15 years from now, too.
Also, you guys owe me about 8,000 hours of my life back:-)
Congratulations Patrick and crew on another fine release of my first and still favorite Linux distro. Thanks to you guys I never lack Slack. Proud user since... ehmm... 1995... ish.
> President Obama's staff has admitted to the New York Times that there is a joint Israel-U.S. cybermilitary operation was behind the mishaps Iranians have recently been suffering with their UF6 gas refining centrifuge systems in the Natanz and Fordo plants.
Remind me, when and where exactly did Obama's staff admit this? Is there anything at all besides one article with unsourced allegations?
No doubt the U.S. is behind behind this. But I'm getting damned tired of the shoddy journalism. I've seen so many claims that "the President has confirmed that the U.S. is behind the cyber attacks on Iraq nuclear facilities" with absolutely nothing to back them up. C'mon folks, stick to the facts.
My home machines have had Slackware Linux as their primary OS since around 1995, and I still maintain that Slack is the most Unix-like of all the Linuxes. This classic, verging on historic, distro has always been rock solid, dependable, and reliable, and has always accepted that I'm the one in charge of my hardware, not Patrick.
But thanks to a new job, I've been forcibly immersed in a bunch of "modern" Linux distros lately, and have finally been seduced by the dark side. Yes, after Slacking for something like 17 years, I've decided to reinstall my home box with a modern desktop-type distro. (Not with the cell phone / tablet style interface, I haven't gone completely crazy).
Using Slackware has been tremendously educational and consistently rewarding over the years. It has been a dream OS for this old-time, Unix-y hacker type, and I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Thanks for everything, Patrick! And for you young whippersnappers out there, if you're interested in learning Linux / Unix, there are worse things you could do than installing a "traditional" distro like Slackware and figuring out what makes it tick.
This is brilliant, really. The old "(whatever)... on a computer!" junk patent space was getting a little played out, but now we can patent "(whatever)... on a mobile phone!" so life is good again! At least for patent trolls.
*Shrug*. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. If Bush was still in office, he'd have voted the same way. If Clinton were re-elected, he'd do the same. This is just like the kids I went to grade school with, arguing with religious conviction whether Ford or Chevy was better. It just doesn't make any difference.
Of course it's not lying, just "expectations management." In totally unrelated news, why do version numbers (Linux's, Microsoft's, anyones) never go *down* instead of up? After all they're just numbers with no semantics or meaning.
And as I've pointed out in the past, this was a reaction to Pat getting tired of people thinking Slackware was out of date compared to some other (ahem) popular Linux distros, who were shipping basically the same software but with a much bigger number slapped on it.
> I think it's clear that some other distributions inflated their version numbers for marketing purposes, and I've had to field (way too many times) the question "why isn't yours 6.x" or worse "when will you upgrade to Linux 6.0" which really drives home the effectiveness of this simple trick. [...] > Sorry if I haven't been enough of a purist about this. I promise I won't inflate the version number again (unless everyone else does again;) http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=general
> I'm guessing you don't live in the UK where this kind of reactionary "OMG someone got hurt let's ban something" vote-chasing by our politicians is a daily fact of life. I don't, but in recent years it's sure starting to feel that way.
Right. How could a guy right out of school be so dumb as to not investigate which specific type of hellhole he's interviewing at? Fresh-outs don't have the bitter, hard-won experience of old farts - that's why they're not old farts.
Just wanted to say thanks for all the great times here on/. You've provided all of us geeks with boatloads of information, hours of entertainment, and a great way to stay on the leading edge of the things we care about. You've kept Linux out front where it belongs. And, importantly, you've consistently maintained a focus on tech related human rights issues since the beginning. I hope I can speak for all geeks in saying you should never have to pay for your own beer again:-)
Seriously, thanks for everything dude. Enjoy your time off.
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Thanks for posting this!
To everyone who's had a hand in keeping this site going strong, thank you for doing News for Nerds *and* Stuff that Matters all these years. I'm pretty sure we'll be doing this again 15 years from now, too.
Also, you guys owe me about 8,000 hours of my life back :-)
Congratulations Patrick and crew on another fine release of my first and still favorite Linux distro. Thanks to you guys I never lack Slack. Proud user since... ehmm... 1995... ish.
Just look for the words "on a computer."
> President Obama's staff has admitted to the New York Times that there is a joint Israel-U.S. cybermilitary operation was behind the mishaps Iranians have recently been suffering with their UF6 gas refining centrifuge systems in the Natanz and Fordo plants.
Remind me, when and where exactly did Obama's staff admit this? Is there anything at all besides one article with unsourced allegations?
No doubt the U.S. is behind behind this. But I'm getting damned tired of the shoddy journalism. I've seen so many claims that "the President has confirmed that the U.S. is behind the cyber attacks on Iraq nuclear facilities" with absolutely nothing to back them up. C'mon folks, stick to the facts.
Personally, I think it has a whole more to do with data mining than trolling.
..."don't be evil" wasn't ironic?
Sounds like the old "we had to burn the village in order to save it" defense.
My home machines have had Slackware Linux as their primary OS since around 1995, and I still maintain that Slack is the most Unix-like of all the Linuxes. This classic, verging on historic, distro has always been rock solid, dependable, and reliable, and has always accepted that I'm the one in charge of my hardware, not Patrick.
But thanks to a new job, I've been forcibly immersed in a bunch of "modern" Linux distros lately, and have finally been seduced by the dark side. Yes, after Slacking for something like 17 years, I've decided to reinstall my home box with a modern desktop-type distro. (Not with the cell phone / tablet style interface, I haven't gone completely crazy).
Using Slackware has been tremendously educational and consistently rewarding over the years. It has been a dream OS for this old-time, Unix-y hacker type, and I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Thanks for everything, Patrick! And for you young whippersnappers out there, if you're interested in learning Linux / Unix, there are worse things you could do than installing a "traditional" distro like Slackware and figuring out what makes it tick.
This is brilliant, really. The old "(whatever)... on a computer!" junk patent space was getting a little played out, but now we can patent "(whatever)... on a mobile phone!" so life is good again! At least for patent trolls.
Please, just stop it already. Every user interface change in the past couple years has made it *less* usable. Give it up.
*Shrug*. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. If Bush was still in office, he'd have voted the same way. If Clinton were re-elected, he'd do the same. This is just like the kids I went to grade school with, arguing with religious conviction whether Ford or Chevy was better. It just doesn't make any difference.
They can have my organs when they pry them from my cold, dead... oh wait.
+1
Of course it's not lying, just "expectations management." In totally unrelated news, why do version numbers (Linux's, Microsoft's, anyones) never go *down* instead of up? After all they're just numbers with no semantics or meaning.
And as I've pointed out in the past, this was a reaction to Pat getting tired of people thinking Slackware was out of date compared to some other (ahem) popular Linux distros, who were shipping basically the same software but with a much bigger number slapped on it.
> I think it's clear that some other distributions inflated their version numbers for marketing purposes, and I've had to field (way too many times) the question "why isn't yours 6.x" or worse "when will you upgrade to Linux 6.0" which really drives home the effectiveness of this simple trick. [...] ;)
> Sorry if I haven't been enough of a purist about this. I promise I won't inflate the version number again (unless everyone else does again
http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=general
> I'm guessing you don't live in the UK where this kind of reactionary "OMG someone got hurt let's ban something" vote-chasing by our politicians is a daily fact of life.
I don't, but in recent years it's sure starting to feel that way.
> Personally I hope they never get made.
Couldn't agree more. Some things just should not be reduced to film.
Very sad to hear this. I read and re-read the Dragonriders books growing up, starting with The White Dragon. Great books and a great author.
Right. How could a guy right out of school be so dumb as to not investigate which specific type of hellhole he's interviewing at? Fresh-outs don't have the bitter, hard-won experience of old farts - that's why they're not old farts.
Rob,
tl;dr -- just kidding!
Just wanted to say thanks for all the great times here on /. You've provided all of us geeks with boatloads of information, hours of entertainment, and a great way to stay on the leading edge of the things we care about. You've kept Linux out front where it belongs. And, importantly, you've consistently maintained a focus on tech related human rights issues since the beginning. I hope I can speak for all geeks in saying you should never have to pay for your own beer again :-)
Seriously, thanks for everything dude. Enjoy your time off.
Indigo
> I, for one, do not welcome our aesthetic GUI overlords. Please come back, functional GUI overlords.
Thank you!!! You have said it far better than I ever could.
Firefox, too. Soon there will be no escape :-(
Dumbification. First it was a fad, then a trend, now it's a way of life.
+1 for twm. It does its job. It doesn't get in the way. It doesn't want me to worship it. It Just Works.