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Slackware 14.1 is released

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Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

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Post by conductor »

atmosx wrote: post #6

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…

> how elite they were using slackware

Actually, before the Slackware 14.0 version there was the 13.37 version. So yes, that's elite.

Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

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Post by ZeroMinx »

atmosx wrote: post #6

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…

there will always be idiots.

there will always be people catching on to something, being loud, creating the first noise other people see.

Seriously. Fuck it. Ignore it. Ignore them.

I haven't followed Slackware dev for 10+ years (too old etc), but it was the awesome thing in the 90s (to me); at a time I was curious to learn about all the weird details, it gave me the opportunity,

I hope it still does give that opportunity, AND that young people take advantage of this.

Looking back, this is (part of) the magic and joy of computers. People doing a lot of cool shit, and then sending it off for free for other people to do other cool shit. No app store in sight.

Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

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Post by Myk267 »

atmosx wrote: post #6

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…

> which never had a decent package manager as far as I know

This is false. The package management tools work fine, they're just different from some others. Slackware users find the design decisions in the provided tools to be a strength, but opinions may differ.

Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

#14

Post by dsl »

atmosx wrote: post #6

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…

Slackware actually had, and still has, the best package manager I've ever used. http://www.slackware.com/config/packages.php

The "elite"ness of Slackware was a bit valid. It it has no automatic dependencies system, which in itself is a powerful tool that you can do awesome things with. The second fantastic thing (which sort of ties into the first) is that packages are modified as little as possible from the original author, save some metadata. So if you know what you are doing, and an openssl vulnerability is found, you can have a package built in minutes without waiting for the upstream.

Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

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Post by ChuckMcM »

conductor wrote: post #8
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/

Awesome didn't find those from the http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware-iso/ page.

Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

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Post by vezzy-fnord »

atmosx wrote: post #6

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…

That may have been true back in the day, but certainly not anymore.

Most idiots nowadays have migrated to Arch.

Re: Slackware 14.1 is released

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Post by crashandburn4 »

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #16
atmosx wrote: post #6

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…

That may have been true back in the day, but certainly not anymore. Most idiots nowadays have migrated to Arch.

Hey, no distro-bashing on HN! ...I like arch... :(
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