Slackware 14.2 released

Post by 9214 » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 6:21 AM UTC

Should I pick up Slack as my first distro?

I've tinkered a little with Arch before and liked that bare bone terminal experience, meditations on man pages and wikis, but it turned out that I didn't learned anything from that, except for how to do google search.

I want OS to force me do some dirty work with my bare hands and to thoughtfully grasp the *nix way, while be opened for tuning and flexible modding without enforcing me to do things in one strict manner, and it seems that Slackware is a way to go. I also like that, as I heard, it's is very well documented, old-fashioned and more BSD-like than any other linux distro. What can you guys say about that?

I know that as a newbie I'll suffer a lot, but as long as it's a good pain - I'm ready to live with that c:

Post by ovt » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 6:50 PM UTC

jsizz wrote: post #23

ovt wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to run it, and I'm not sure there's value in it anymore. They often don't stay on top of security updates, and compiling anything just got worse and worse. The last straw was the fanboys at the linuxquestions forum. It was cultish and creeped me out.

Three negative comments on this submission, that's some impressive anti-cult thing you've got going. Slackware doesn't do "security theatre" updates. Whenever there's both a credible risk and a reasonable fix, you'll see an update, and it'll be quicker than distros that are multiple steps downstream from Debian.

You know, I felt really troubled to have been using something for 20 years and realize things had changed and it was no longer right and no longer good for me. I felt like a fool for having stuck with it for quite so long.

I realize that sounds like someone talking about a bad marriage, and I suppose we can generalize usefully on relationships of whatever type.

I think we must end up with longer-lasting bad feelings about anything we used to value.

Re: Slackware 14.2 released

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