Slackware 13.0 is released
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Slackware 13.0 is released
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Re: Slackware 13.0 is released
#2Biggest news:
Probably the first thing to mention about the release of Slackware 13.0 is that it marks our first release with an official 64-bit port!
Nice.
Also, they switched from KDE3 to KDE4. And version number == 13; lucky number.
Re: Slackware 13.0 is released
#3Anyone got any updates on the various gnomes? Anyone of them close to the finishing line?
Re: Slackware 13.0 is released
#4I don't really get the fascination around Slackware. As a distro it is probably the least featured among all of the distros out there. It doesn't even have automated patch management for Christ's sake.
Only real use I see for it is using it, once, to fiddle around and learn how Linux actually works. After that you just wants something which works and move on to Debian, Fedora or whatever.
Also obligatory demotivator link: http://invalid.ed.ntnu.no/~jostein/qupload/files/slackware.j...
Re: Slackware 13.0 is released
#5I don't really get the fascination around Slackware. As a distro it is probably the least featured among all of the distros out there. It doesn't even have automated patch management for Christ's sake. Only real use I see for it is using it, once, to fiddle around and learn how Linux actually works. After that you just wants something which works and move on to Debian, Fedora or whatever. Also obligatory demotivator…
As I see it, Slackware is like a clean canvas, where you can easily paint whatever you'd like. I turned my gf's laptop in a perfectly functional media player, at the same time without sacrificing those things she needs for University and stuff, like OOffice, firefox, the likes. My desktop suits my needs of development and research, the usual stuff you'd expect from a "geek". And it's still blazing fast. I'm not making the point that you can't achieve this level of versatility in any other distro, far from that, but Slack makes this considerably easier to deploy.
Re: Slackware 13.0 is released
#6I don't really get the fascination around Slackware. As a distro it is probably the least featured among all of the distros out there. It doesn't even have automated patch management for Christ's sake. Only real use I see for it is using it, once, to fiddle around and learn how Linux actually works. After that you just wants something which works and move on to Debian, Fedora or whatever. Also obligatory demotivator…
Slackware is really about just being able to install what you like, whatever way you want to and it will just work. There's no need to have installed by default random daemons like Cardbus.
Unlike ubuntu the other day, which felt like installing a mail server along with docbooks.
Re: Slackware 13.0 is released
#7Slackware is still my favorite distro (even though I also use Ubuntu a lot nowadays).
It's the best choice IMO for learning Linux, for power users and for developers.
I still prefer to compile most of the software I need by myself, to get the latest releases and to compile with the options I want. And there's nothing I can't get running on Slackware. This is mostly because Slackware uses unpatched/non customized versions of each software, compiled with default settings.
I also love that fact that it doesn't even have its own visual branding. KDE is just KDE (with the default theme and its own wallpapers) and everything else comes as if you would have got the source and compiled yourself.
\\//, live long and prosper, Slackware.
Re: Slackware 13.0 is released
#8Because i run -current, i didn't even notice.
But hell yeah, it's a damn good news! I'm running the 64 bit version and it is rock-solid (as always is the case with slack.)
Re: Slackware 13.0 is released
#9I don't really get the fascination around Slackware. As a distro it is probably the least featured among all of the distros out there. It doesn't even have automated patch management for Christ's sake. Only real use I see for it is using it, once, to fiddle around and learn how Linux actually works. After that you just wants something which works and move on to Debian, Fedora or whatever. Also obligatory demotivator…
> It doesn't even have automated patch management
That's not true. You can automatically keep synced up.
Re: Slackware 13.0 is released
#10Slackware is still my favorite distro (even though I also use Ubuntu a lot nowadays). It's the best choice IMO for learning Linux, for power users and for developers. I still prefer to compile most of the software I need by myself, to get the latest releases and to compile with the options I want. And there's nothing I can't get running on Slackware. This is mostly because Slackware uses unpatched/non customized vers…
slackware, the main distro for the church of the subgenius. amazing. wipes tears of joy