Slackware 14.1 is released

#1

Post by uggedal » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 10:55 PM UTC

Slackware 14.1 is released
slackware.com

Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

#2

Post by csmuk » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 11:09 PM UTC

I genuinely had no idea Slackware was still going!

Slackware and Debian were my first Linux experiments in the 90's after spending a few years with commercial UNIX. Debian stuck in the end but was replaced with FreeBSD after a couple of years.

Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

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Post by cjaredrun » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 11:29 PM UTC

ohhh fancy. been years since i've run slack but i think it's about time to give it another go.

Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

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Post by ChuckMcM » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 11:40 PM UTC

So is it the new thing to ask for money for CDs/DVDs before putting the ISO's up on the mirrors? Or is it just a timing thing?

Would love to throw one on a Virtualbox to see how it differs with Mint.

Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

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Post by koenigdavidmj » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 11:42 PM UTC

ChuckMcM wrote: post #4

So is it the new thing to ask for money for CDs/DVDs before putting the ISO's up on the mirrors? Or is it just a timing thing? Would love to throw one on a Virtualbox to see how it differs with Mint.

It's almost as easy to rsync the files down and build your own USB image, fortunately.

Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

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Post by atmosx » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 11:46 PM UTC

I know that this is no way of judging a distribution - which never had a decent package manager as far as I know - but all the assholes, hacker-wannabes from my early IRC era (1999-2004) were pompously bragging about how elite they were using slackware.

I know many of you find that behavior childish but I'm 100% others encountered the same behavior as I did.

I never knew if it was the founders/dev's (I think was only 1 at the time) own attitude but seriously, slackware attracted idiots like honey bees.

Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

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Post by zorked » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 11:46 PM UTC

ChuckMcM wrote: post #4

So is it the new thing to ask for money for CDs/DVDs before putting the ISO's up on the mirrors? Or is it just a timing thing? Would love to throw one on a Virtualbox to see how it differs with Mint.

If by new you mean OpenBSD and Slackware itself since the 90s...

I may still have a Walnut Creek CD-ROM version of Slackware (ELF binaries!) with a partial Sunsite/tsx-11 mirror around here.

Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

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Post by conductor » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 11:48 PM UTC

ChuckMcM wrote: post #4

So is it the new thing to ask for money for CDs/DVDs before putting the ISO's up on the mirrors? Or is it just a timing thing? Would love to throw one on a Virtualbox to see how it differs with Mint.

x86 - http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware/slackware-14.1-i...

x86_64 - http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware/slackware64-14.1...

> ask for money for CDs/DVDs before putting the ISO's up on the mirrors

Patrick Volkerding is The Man [0], he wouldn't do that.

[0] - http://www.slackware.com/about/

Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

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Post by vacri » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 11:50 PM UTC

Slackware uses the 3.10.17 kernel bringing you advanced performance features such as journaling filesystems, SCSI and ATA RAID volume support, SATA support, Software RAID, LVM (the Logical Volume Manager), and encrypted filesystems.

This product release has been brought to you from the Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V* School of Marketing.

*(yy/p?)

Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

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Post by recuter » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 11:52 PM UTC

csmuk wrote: post #2

I genuinely had no idea Slackware was still going! Slackware and Debian were my first Linux experiments in the 90's after spending a few years with commercial UNIX. Debian stuck in the end but was replaced with FreeBSD after a couple of years.

The first rule about Arch linux is that we don't talk about Arch linux.