Slackware 13.37 has been released

by rg3 • 15 years ago

76 15 15 years ago

iwwr• 15 years ago

Dubious quotation time: 'Learning Ubuntu teaches you Ubuntu, but learning Slackware teaches you Linux'

It was my first Linux OS desktop and I lived with it for about a year. It's not impossible for a non-initiate to just dive in, if he is not afraid of the command line.

napierzaza• 15 years ago

Does Slackware have init.d yet?

count• 15 years ago

Heh, Slackware will get init.d just as Ubuntu stops using it!

koenigdavidmj• 15 years ago

It does not use it for its own scripts, but it does support it for third party programs that use it ;)

The relevant logic is in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysvinit .

sudonim3• 15 years ago

I was never 1337 enough to use Slackware. But seriously folks, what decade are these people in:

"Please consider supporting the Slackware project by picking up a copy of the Slackware 13.37 release from the Slackware Store. The discs are off to replication, but we're accepting pre-orders for the official 6 CD set and the DVD."

I really think they lost the plot.

ra2• 15 years ago

Not at all. It's a nice way to support the project, and Slackware was always available that way.

sudonim3• 15 years ago

It's a wasteful way to support the project. 6CDs + jewel cases + packaging + shipping. It's just not the way software is distributed anymore. Why not have a recommended donation? Or encourage people to buy another item that actually needs to be shipped? My beef is that they are encouraging users to do something arcane, unnecessary and wasteful when there's a better way. Download and burn it yourself (or put it on an external harddrive).

eli• 15 years ago

Perhaps purchasing discs is an easy way for users to donate to the project.

cycojesus• 15 years ago

How do you think Pat makes a living out of Slackware?

sudonim3• 15 years ago

Imagine we're talking about CDs vs. MP3s and pat makes music. I'm not advocating not paying Pat. I'm advocating paying pat for the MP3s and eliminating the waste of the CD.

That Pat is encouraging people to still buy the CDs means either Slackware users haven't moved on or Pat hasn't.

astrodust• 15 years ago

I would hope selling "I ♥ SLACKWARE" merch which would be popular for irony's sake.

ra2• 15 years ago

Slackware was my first Linux distro circa 1992.

I have fond memories of the empowerment from having a Unix machine in my dorm room.

parfe• 15 years ago

Slackware is great to learn on but, like Gentoo, I find myself turning knobs more often than I would like. I use Ubuntu and Debian to get work done. I rarely have an interest looking under the hood these days.

Slackware 13.37 has been released

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