Would be great that HN points out unsecured links (i.e. not HTTPS)
Slackware 15.0 release candidate one
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Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one
#32wow 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 it's horribly out of date but I can see why they kept it.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 style of the background image is dated (although since it is more subtle than others of the era it doesn't stick out too badly), but the rest of the design is clean and remarkably modern looking for a site that hasn't been redesigned in over 20 years.
Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one
#33Great, I have a newist laptop and it keeps asking "When will you put Slackware on me ?".
But, people should go here instead since I heard slackware.com is an old 32 bit machine.
https://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware64-current/ChangeLog.t...
But that shows Slakware can take a beating and keep on ticking. :)
Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one
#34Slackware 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/
Same here, though probably 1996 or 1997 and on a 486 we got somewhere for free. I made install floppies. I never did get XFree86 configured, unfortunately :(. But it was awesome to install Linux and play around with it.
Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one
#35I love that the website is the same design as when I first discovered Slackware in 1999 https://web.archive.org/web/19991117022152/http://slackware....
From the Slack About:
Curious about the machine running this site, eh? Also fairly high on the importance scale (for this site, anyway) is the box itself. The machine is a Pentium III, 600 MHz, with 512 megabytes of RAM. It runs (of course) Slackware Linux, and does an efficient and reliable job even with moderately old hardware. The slackware.com site has been known to run for well over a year without a reboot.
Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one
#36wow 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 it's horribly out of date but I can see why they kept it.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.
Loading it locally I get 2s of "styles recalculated" taking almost the entire load time, in Safari's "Timeline" tool. Wrapping the main body text in a
, with no other changes, drops that to 0.8s total layout time.It's the tens of thousands of
tags in that block doing it, then, I guess.
Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one
#37Man 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…
Under which metric is Ubuntu more polished than Debian? I had the impression that Ubuntu is more user friendly, but buggier than Debian. Honestly asking.
Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one
#38I really want to love Slackware, but I can't bring myself to use a distro that has basically a single person as the maintainer. What happens if Patrick Volkerding gets hit by a bus? That's it, no more patches, no more updates? Really wish Slackware had a team of maintainers.
Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one
#39Ah, making a boot and root floppy using rawwrite. Brings back fond memories. Slackware still has a place in my heart :-)
Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one
#40wow 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.
Incidentally, the OpenBSD website, while visually little‐changed since the 1990s, is 100% valid HTML5. Decent quality HTML too, with proper use of tags and good separation of presentation into external CSS.