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Why avoid recompiling? Why this reluctance to do a full rebuild? I started programming in a world where you had to wait a day to get 300 lines of Fortran built. Now I routinely bui…

Why can't developers, y'know, ACTUALLY READ THE BLOODY WARNINGS? And then, y'know, they could FIX MORE THAN THE FIRST ONE after a single build pass?

Three negative comments on this submission, that's some impressive anti-cult thing you've got going. Slackware doesn't do "security theatre" updates. Whenever there's both a credib…

Yeah whatevs. This reminds me of the ICL DAP with 1024 processors from 1979... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICL_Distributed_Array_Processo...

> sometimes they cause problems (hello, Debian weak keys). > until recently nobody was packaging Chromium for example. To name one example, SlackBuilds.org has had Chromium since 2…

The planning authorities have an obligation to consider the potential historical and archaeological impact of a proposed development, and can impose an obligation on the developer …

Yes, you're being ignorant. Use '--content-disposition' with wget, or '--remote-name' in curl. The top level directory in the tarball corresponds to this name and everything works …

And thus, every boneheaded project that ships with -Werror enabled will inflict an excrement tornado of FAIL on its grateful users and packagers. THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD NOT USE -We…

Oxford Flood Network http://oxfloodnet.co.uk/ "Making a flood detection network in Oxford, using low cost sensors and volunteers"

Parloff spent years publishing pro SCO Group articles and pushing the undisclosed-Microsoft-patents-in-Linux meme. Do we spot a pattern here?

Thanks. FYI, for the upcoming 14.2 release we have an officially unofficial repo with hundreds of fixes for 14.2 ready to go (and hundreds more needed). I'll admit I get a little t…

> I eventually left because slackbuilds.org was not being run very well and I couldn't get the packages I needed I'd be interested to hear more about that if you're willing to shar…

> I have never used a more convenient package manager than sbopkg before. Dependencies can be cleanly recorded and built with queuefiles. http://idlemoor.github.io/slackrepo/index.…

It's worth pointing out that the Bernard S. Greenberg mentioned in the article in connection with NXSYS is the celebrated Multician who ported Emacs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

"What makes Waterfox so fast? It's built with Intel's C++ compiler. One of the most powerful compilers out there. This enables us to make the fastest possible web browser for all t…

So now Merriam-Webster has become the Twelfth Circuit? This is the lamest jurisdiction shopping I've seen in a while.

I absolutely do not agree with the idea that this is stealing. How can it be stealing, when the owner still has the thing that was supposedly stolen? Different circumstances, diffe…

> What word would you use instead? Infringing. (duh)

Please take a moment to actually read the Data Protection Act 1998. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29 75 matches for 'offence' on that page. Sections 61 and 47 are partic…