Slackware 14.2 release candidate 1
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Slackware 14.2 release candidate 1
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Re: Slackware 14.2 release candidate 1
#2I don't see systemd in there anywhere.
Re: Slackware 14.2 release candidate 1
#3For those of you that don't know about Slackware. Slackware is the oldest distro and it is still plenty alive today. When to setup linux on my computer in the early days with other distros (red hat/suse/etc), this would eventually crap up (rpm hell) and give me something unusable. Using Slackware forces you understand how everything works in a linux distro. This lets you fix your own problems.
Re: Slackware 14.2 release candidate 1
#4I don't see systemd in there anywhere.
Patrick Volkerding is hesitant about systemd, but not openly hostile, so he has decided to stay away from it for now, but hasn't ruled it out for the future.
People who are set against systemd should probably better look elsewhere (although their options are pretty limited).
Re: Slackware 14.2 release candidate 1
#5For those of you that don't know about Slackware. Slackware is the oldest distro and it is still plenty alive today. When to setup linux on my computer in the early days with other distros (red hat/suse/etc), this would eventually crap up (rpm hell) and give me something unusable. Using Slackware forces you understand how everything works in a linux distro. This lets you fix your own problems.
And then SalixOS lets you benefit from Slackware without understanding much at all, like some kind of slack Ubuntu.
Re: Slackware 14.2 release candidate 1
#6Does it have a package manager yet?
Re: Slackware 14.2 release candidate 1
#7For those of you that don't know about Slackware. Slackware is the oldest distro and it is still plenty alive today. When to setup linux on my computer in the early days with other distros (red hat/suse/etc), this would eventually crap up (rpm hell) and give me something unusable. Using Slackware forces you understand how everything works in a linux distro. This lets you fix your own problems.
It's not the oldest. SLS predates slackware (as do a few others iirc)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System
Slack was awesome back in the day, but the the philosophy as being "as unix like as possible" prevented it evolving and adding nice things like package managers. Using slackware is a good exercise, but I'd never use it for an application I care about.
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#8Does it have a package manager yet?
Slackware has always had a package manager, from the beginning.
What you probably mean is "does it have a package manager with dependency resolution, yet?". And the answer has been "yes" for years now. Several, actually.
They aren't included in the main installation, but they are widely used.
See also http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:package_management
Re: Slackware 14.2 release candidate 1
#9For those of you that don't know about Slackware. Slackware is the oldest distro and it is still plenty alive today. When to setup linux on my computer in the early days with other distros (red hat/suse/etc), this would eventually crap up (rpm hell) and give me something unusable. Using Slackware forces you understand how everything works in a linux distro. This lets you fix your own problems.
It's not the oldest. SLS predates slackware (as do a few others iirc) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System Slack was awesome back in the day, but the the philosophy as being "as unix like as possible" prevented it evolving and adding nice things like package managers. Using slackware is a good exercise, but I'd never use it for an application I care about.
Correct, "oldest surviving", beating Debian by a hair.
Re: Slackware 14.2 release candidate 1
#10Does it have a package manager yet?
Slackware has always had a package manager, from the beginning. What you probably mean is "does it have a package manager with dependency resolution, yet?". And the answer has been "yes" for years now. Several, actually. They aren't included in the main installation, but they are widely used. See also http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:package_management
Right, what I mean is can I type
apt-get/dnf/zypper/emerge/whatever install apache
and have that work