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Daniel stopped using Slackware awhile ago, and became a CentOS developer, IIRC. He probably just decided not to renew the domain since the book had moved over to the Google Code site for additional translators and contributors to work on.
Also IMHO. It would be more polite to just list the owners name and the pertinent dates. I know it is public information but putting the owners address, phone number and other details here is neither required or polite.
Slackbasics has been handed over the community as Daniel no longer uses Slackware, but it's still being maintained, even though not being actively maintained.
I happened to bump into this topic, and though it might still be useful to answer. As some other posters I have indicated, I do not use Slackware Linux anymore (50% practicality/50% because it never became a community project).
That said, I do still care about the book, since it is still a useful resource. So, what happened? I messed up. I had to renew the registration, but the reminders were still sent to an old e-mail address. The moment I found out, I had to pay 100 Euro to restore the domain. Now the domain is owned by one of those advertisement outlets.
Distribution: x86_64 Slack 13.37 current : +others
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(50% practicality/50% because it never became a community project)
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I happened to bump into this topic, and though it might still be useful to answer. As some other posters I have indicated, I do not use Slackware Linux anymore (50% practicality/50% because it never became a community project).
That said, I do still care about the book, since it is still a useful resource. So, what happened? I messed up. I had to renew the registration, but the reminders were still sent to an old e-mail address. The moment I found out, I had to pay 100 Euro to restore the domain. Now the domain is owned by one of those advertisement outlets.
I prefer Slackware because community projects suffer from a lack of leadership and coherent direction... Slack has that just about right... ! I hope LOL
Distribution: slackware64 13.37 and -current, Dragonfly BSD
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I had to renew the registration, but the reminders were still sent to an old e-mail address.
I lost a domain name in the same way and now it's gone so I can relate to this - it's a pain. As already said your work is still very much appreciated and useful. Thanks for the information and Best Wishes.
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