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Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by IronWolve »

Man I use to buy slackware cd's from walnut creek back in the day, dialup wasn't fast enough to get the latest version.

https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom old cdrom.com

Think I went from slackware to mandrake to fedora/suse then ubuntu(lts)/suse(tumbleweed), to now just Ubuntu(lts) due to ppa's and google/nvidia docker/drivers dev work.

For the servers I'm ditching centos7(eol) for amazon linux 2 now that they support on premise deploys for free. AL3 is unknown at the moment for support... I did for a short time use FreeBSD for servers back in the buffer overflow attacks on Linux when doing my self hosting, but that was 20+ years ago.

Fun Memories and no idea what the future will be. Even Debian is pretty damn good now, but Ubuntu has more polish but Debian has more packages and a better install. IMHO.

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by klyrs »

readingnews wrote: post #7

What timing!! I am so tired of ubuntu derivatives... Call me crazy, but too many things are getting in the way of me just using Linux. I went back to Gentoo on most of my boxes, but was actually feeling like Slack not two weeks ago, only to see it still on 14. A bit dated. Now I can check it out again! Get slack!

Nearly all of my complaints about Ubuntu evaporated when I switched over to using i3wm. There's still a couple of weird annoyances, but I'll gripe about anything I use.

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by cyphax »

syncsynchalt wrote: post #3

Slackware 3.0 was my first distro, in probably 1995. I'm very curious what modern Slackware is like in practice, given their philosophy and guidance listed in http://www.slackware.com/info/

In practice, it is largely like other similar distributions. I've been running Slackware for many years, but the wait for 15 was too long for me so I installed Arch Linux out of curiousity, and found there's a lot of similarities between the "core" repository and user repositories (AUR and Slackbuilds) and how complete they are. For me, the hardest part of this switch was systemd actually. Otherwise it's mostly using the same software (DE, browser, etc).

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by MisterTea »

readingnews wrote: post #7

What timing!! I am so tired of ubuntu derivatives... Call me crazy, but too many things are getting in the way of me just using Linux. I went back to Gentoo on most of my boxes, but was actually feeling like Slack not two weeks ago, only to see it still on 14. A bit dated. Now I can check it out again! Get slack!

I had Linux Mint drive me to nearly throw my computer out of the window before I realized there were two different network configuration UI programs fighting each other. One accessed from the Cinnamon system tray and the one in the configuration menu. One was set to dhcp and the other static and the static setting was overriding the dhcp setting. Complete WTF moment.

Now I just use Void Linux Musl with XFCE and install bloated programs like LibreOffice or Steam via flatpack.

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by s_dev »

metalliqaz wrote: post #5

wow that website brings me back. it's horribly out of date but I can see why they kept it. its readable with good information density, and many times faster than js-laden project websites that use frameworks designed for SPAs to display a changelog

It's not 'out of date' in my book but very much on brand for the intended audience like:

https://www.openbsd.org/

A very intentional design choice that reflects what the project values.

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