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Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by markstos »

klyrs wrote: post #16
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.

Nearly all of my complaints about i3wm evaporated when I switched over to using Sway.

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by shmoe »

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/

dude.. me too.. imaging the rainbow boot disk. Or was it color? now I have to check :P

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by klyrs »

markstos wrote: post #21
klyrs wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Nearly all of my complaints about i3wm evaporated when I switched over to using Sway.

Okay, I'll bite. What didn't you like about i3 and/or what does Sway do better?

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by _trampeltier »

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/

Also Slackware 3.0 here. It was on a CD on my first Linux book. 95 or 96 i also would guess.

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by xuhu »

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 it's horribly out of date but I can see why they kept it.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

The page loads in 10 seconds on an i7-10850H, and it's not due to downloading the html. Chrome just freezes while parsing the DOM or something.

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by vergessenmir »

IronWolve wrote: post #11

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 t…

I took a similar journey. I remember getting slackware on 16 3.5inch floppy disks and being super excited on being able to run an OS that took less memory and being able to build and run polyray faster. Then I moved onto slack from walnut creek. Then mandrake Then redhat Then Ubuntu when I got to uni.

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by markstos »

klyrs wrote: post #23
markstos wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nearly all of my complaints about i3wm evaporated when I switched over to using Sway.

Okay, I'll bite. What didn't you like about i3 and/or what does Sway do better?

I was interested to use Wayland for its more secure design. Also, X11 is considered abandonware by the maintainers: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-...

As long as I was getting started with a new environment I wanted to make a forward-looking choice.

Due to Wayland, Sway does have smoother window resizing with less jank.

One detail I liked about Sway at the time is that it supposed an "include" file directive, allowing you to break up your config file. i3wm has recently adopted that feature from Sway:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-...

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by bstamour »

silisili wrote: post #8
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/

Slack was also my first. Amazed to see Pat still at it given all the time that's passed. I'm curious to know how many out there still use slack? I can't say I have in a solid 15-20 years.

I still use it on my primary desktop computer at home. It's a great, stable system that just keeps on running and doing what it needs to do.

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by fullstop »

IronWolve wrote: post #11

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 t…

I spent a few months downloading the floppy sets at night just to find out that my SCSI card was not supported.

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by lrem »

xuhu wrote: post #25
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

The page loads in 10 seconds on an i7-10850H, and it's not due to downloading the html. Chrome just freezes while parsing the DOM or something.

Firefox on a Surface Pro deals with it just fine.
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