I'm a bit surprised to see the site has a Let's Encrypt certificate, but it redirects from HTTPS to HTTP;
https://www.slackware.com/ redirects to http://www.slackware.com/
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#42Would be great that HN points out unsecured links (i.e. not HTTPS)
If you're scared go to church.
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#43Slackware 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 the computer room of our physics department (around 30 PCs). Slackware is the only distro stable enough to perform excellent on this heterogenous machines mix where some computers could be ten years old. I use a golden image, created and set up with packer and some scripts, and image it using clonezilla.
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#44wow 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 it's horribly out of date but I can see why they kept it.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.
Could be. Html is full of errors https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slackware....
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#45I 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.
It used to be that he had a handful of core people who helped out, but it was never official AFAIK.
I feel the same as you. I used Slackware on my primary machine for about a decade, but the long silence between 14.2 and 15 made me nervous.
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#46The Subgenius must have Slack.
Repent! Quit your job! Slack off! And Praise "Bob"!
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#47I'm a bit surprised to see the site has a Let's Encrypt certificate, but it redirects from HTTPS to HTTP; https://www.slackware.com/ redirects to http://www.slackware.com/
While old-school and a bit funny, not being on https while sporting downloads of something as significant as an operating system isn't what i would want to do. The internet isn't "fun" anymore and we need all security we can get or someone will exploit you.
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#48I'm a bit surprised to see the site has a Let's Encrypt certificate, but it redirects from HTTPS to HTTP; https://www.slackware.com/ redirects to http://www.slackware.com/
While old-school and a bit funny, not being on https while sporting downloads of something as significant as an operating system isn't what i would want to do. The internet isn't "fun" anymore and we need all security we can get or someone will exploit you.
For something as significant as an operating system, please always check the gpg signatures. Do not rely on transport security.
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#49Man 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.
>> Ubuntu has more polish
> Ubuntu more polished than Debian?
I'm not a native English speaker, but I sense a discrepancy here:
"Ubuntu has more polish" = "it ships with more UI trinkets and background processes enabled; it is more plug-and-play". Whereas "Ubuntu is more polished" carries the notion that it's a finer product that people put more effort into; that can't easily be said. They're both fine products, but have different distro goals.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
While old-school and a bit funny, not being on https while sporting downloads of something as significant as an operating system isn't what i would want to do. The internet isn't "fun" anymore and we need all security we can get or someone will exploit you.
For something as significant as an operating system, please always check the gpg signatures. Do not rely on transport security.
Plus the downloads are served by mirrors and torrents anyway.