Meanwhile NixOS users
alone and very far away from the real world?
yes but also superior beings who cannot connect to their erstwhile siblings anymore
Good idea, awful execution.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Slackware had always seemed both mysterious and masochistic to me.
You certainly learn a lot about paths, environment variables and compile options.
Are they waiting for Slackware 5.0 to release finally?
good one!
Where is the upper one from? I feel I could read something like that now
Cover of Utopia Zukunftsroman #299, 1961 by Karl Stephan. I’d never heard of it but it reminded me of the cover art for Truckfighters’ album “Gravity X” (which itself is from the cover of an issue of Space:1999). Turns out he didn’t do that cover but he did actually do some work for Space:1999.
Thanks!
Sure thing. I got on a fuzz rock and stoner metal kick for a while and that album cover stuck with me. Then the usual compulsion took over and I ended up on a deep dive through old sci-fi, pulp comics, etc.
Looks familiar, like every second book from sci-fi golden age. You can read Sargasso of Space.
Thanks for the recommendation
Then what makes Debian its only a month younger than Slackware?
Maybe the only time the words Dick and Dyke appear together.
What’s the point of slakware, what exactly does it offer? When I was new arch user 15 years ago it was exactly the same, sparse updates, no package manager, limited support.
It’s a unique combination of extreme stability and extreme KISS philosophy.
Sparse updates are a selling point for some people. You do get timely security updates, but you don’t get “version number must go up”.
For installing additional software there are 5 package managers that I know of, 4 of which resolve dependencies.
The base system doesn’t need a fancy one because the installer already resolves all dependencies.
And as for support, there’s well-written documentation installed with the system, and linuxquestions.org has a very active community where the main dev and the maintainers post regularly.
It’s certainly not a good distro for most people, but it’s the perfect one for roughly 10000 users worldwide.Patrick Volkerding
Slackware users love the fact that precious Patrick builds the entire thing himself. They also really like the fact that it uses no modern Linux technologies, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Slack be upon Him, and may his code ever compile without errors!
I mean, if you’re an arch user you probably should get it, given it’s kinda the same train if thought that brings most arch users to choose that.
The point is being a barebones system you can do what you want on top of, it tries to avoid making any choice for you.
I’ve kinda often thought of it as the step between LFS and Gentoo/Arch for users who want the most control over their system.
Where’s the AIX and Solaris bros?
I used to Slackware that time when RedHat’s package system constantly broke, and no internet so I couldn’t use Debian.
Good times.
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