Slackware creator in strife, claims store has not paid him
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#2I find this to be awful and I don't even use Slackware.
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#3Should not people like him get paid from UN for the contribution they make to the human kind?
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#4Original comment on LinuxQuestions.org: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/donati...
"second oldest Linux distribution"
Sorry to nitpick, but it's not, by any metric.
In an absolute sense, there were quite a few Linux distros around before Slackware. MCC Interim Linux, TAMU, and Yggdrasil all predate it, as does SLS (obviously, since Pat derived Slackware from SLS).
In the sense of "oldest surviving distribution", Slackware is not the "second oldest". It is the oldest.
Re: Slackware creator in strife, claims store has not paid him
#5Original comment on LinuxQuestions.org: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/donati... "second oldest Linux distribution" Sorry to nitpick, but it's not, by any metric. In an absolute sense, there were quite a few Linux distros around before Slackware. MCC Interim Linux, TAMU, and Yggdrasil all predate it, as does SLS (obviously, since Pat derived Slackware from SLS). In the sense of "oldest survivin…
Yup. One of the oldest, popular, surviving distributions. There's a transfinite number of distributions.
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I don't mean to be rude, but is there any way to verify that this is actually his and a scammer's?
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Patrick has denied this and described it as an attempt to rip him off: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17611071