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Slackware is a company. The distribution is not community driven.
Cheers
But it's still free of charge. "Commercial distribution" means that you have the possibility to buy Slackware if you feel inclined to do so. If you're not, you're free (as in speech & beer) to download the full product, and not some crippleware 30-day-trial-version. Which is not possible with products like, say, RHEL or SLES/SLED.
So you need an industrial grade Linux distribution with long support cycle, consistent documentation and easy administration (no need to understand things like pam, kerberos, ldap, ad and so on). And free of charge.
and easy administration (no need to understand things like pam, kerberos, ldap, ad and so on).
for what I have understood (read above), he would like to learn these matters.
...and, to be clear, I spoke about charging because of this
Quote:
Originally Posted by ivandi
It's a joke, isn't it.
You can't expect an OS that hasn't changed since about 1994 to simply work in a modern environment.
I admire your enthusiasm in deploying Slackware commercially but something tells me that once you have to setup an industrial grade network with several hundred users on several locations you'll face a tough choice: Abandon Slackware or fork it.
The Slackware upstream doesn't seem to care about your user case anyway.
Cheers
and the other times where you pushed for this stuff to be included in Slackware...
sorry if I misunderstood, but one thing is being modern, another thing is asking others to work for your benefit.
So you need an industrial grade Linux distribution with long support cycle, consistent documentation and easy administration (no need to understand things like pam, kerberos, ldap, ad and so on). And free of charge.
Hm
No, I never said "free of charge" (and I have a Slackware subscription).
I need a robust and flexible distribution that works well even on crappy and/or exotic hardware, with a reasonable support cycle. And I like being able to run the same distribution on servers (without GUI) and on desktops (with KDE or Xfce).
Slackware with PAM, Kerberos and LDAP would be perfect.
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