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Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by smhenderson »

_trampeltier wrote: post #24
syncsynchalt wrote: post #3

Slackware 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/

Also Slackware 3.0 here. It was on a CD on my first Linux book. 95 or 96 i also would guess.

I think we had the same book. I remember laughing out loud when I read on the back "Dyslexics of the world, untie!"

I still run Slack today, by far my favorite distro; as they say the most *nix-like distro

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by handrous »

slim wrote: post #44
xuhu wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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....

Most of those are warnings like "the attribute you've used from back when HTML was slim and fast is obsolete, please use this slower modern thing instead". I doubt that's making the page slow. Only a few are actual errors.

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by Koshkin »

lightbulbjim wrote: post #45
hitpointdrew wrote: post #38

I 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.

To be fair, there has been no “silence,” the stream of updates has been quite lively.

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by efficax »

t3lp3r10n wrote: post #43
silisili wrote: post #8

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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.

Surely debian would be fine on it, i even run fedora on a few 10 to 12 year old machines (heck ten years ago you already had Intel core chips)

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by lightbulbjim »

Koshkin wrote: post #54
lightbulbjim wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

To be fair, there has been no “silence,” the stream of updates has been quite lively.

Yes, -current has been moving along. I'm too lazy for rolling release though.

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by IronWolve »

sildur wrote: post #37
IronWolve wrote: post #11

Man 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 desktops releases I mean are more visually nice on install, Debian needs more configuration after install. Both are basically the same, just the Configuration for Mate looks better on install for the desktop distros of ubuntu.

Kinda like how Mint was doing it.

Re: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

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Post by hulitu »

anjbe wrote: post #40
s_dev wrote: post #20

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It's not 'out of date' in my book but very much on brand for the intended audience like: https://www.openbsd.org/ A very intentional design choice that reflects what the project values.

Incidentally, the OpenBSD website, while visually little‐changed since the 1990s, is 100% valid HTML5. Decent quality HTML too, with proper use of tags and good separation of presentation into external CSS.

But is it valid HTML6 ? Some people are just running for version numbers.
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