I do appreciate that there are several distributions based on Slackware. That is the beauty of free open source software; we get to choose our operating system.
This is the official LQ Slackware forum. In my opinion we should not post topics here about distributions that are not Slackware. I would not go to a Slackware derivative forum and post topics about Slackware. This is a personal request. Thank you.

Maybe we could also have fewer non-technical posts and threads. It hasn't been so bad since 15.0 finally came out but there was a time when this forum felt more like a chat room.

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I'd point at multiple nvidia discussions as the most obvious offtopic around here, since we're at it.
It's kinda the same thing as derivatives discussion & I'd have no problem if contained in one thread.
But it's all over the place recently, especially in the kernel thread.

I have requested long ago that a forum be opened on LQ about Slint. As this request was not fulfilled I feel entitled to post topics about Slint in this forum, until a moderator tells me: no. Then, I will just cease to post in this forum.

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Didier Spaier,
Have you asked Jeremy? That does not guarantee one will be created but it is a start. Do you think it would get more traffic then its own forum over at salix?

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...distro-513876/

I understand. I'm not a moderator; all I can do is make a personal request. You're using the Slackware forum as a free advertising vehicle for your personal project.

Hi michaelk,

thanks for your input.

I am the only Slint developer. I indeed would be ready to support a sub-forum. Wether it would attract more users than its own forum over at Salix (which is very few), frankly I have no idea, but I can have some hopes given the number of visitors of LQ as a whole.

Slint is fully accessible to the blind with braille and speech, ans this is one of its distinctive features. Currently our most active support channel is by far the Slint mailing list as you can check in https://www.freelists.org/archive/slint/ and this is partly because of that: a mailing list is fully accessible to the blind, many fora are not (and alas this includes LQ).

To be honest this makes me wonder how many sighted users would benefit from a subforum here, of which I have no idea, although Slint be not dedicated to the blind but only accessible to them (including the deaf is they use braille, but I digress).

I will let you and Jeremy decide if all things considered a subforum dedicated to Slint is worthwhile. If the answer is no please tell if posting topics about Slint in the Slackware forum is allowed or not.

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Didier Spaier,
Its totally up to Jeremy. Have you contacted him about a sub-forum?

See we're all throwing opinions around here's mine:

As a Slackware user, but not a Slint user, I don't mind at all your posts. In fact, I find your posts (either replies to existing threads or your own threads) to be above average in content quality, so I'm more likely to read them than others.

I think you do a decent of job self-moderating by generally only posting things normal Slackware users may find interesting/useful.

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Yes, but it was several (many?) years ago at a time where Slint was just a Slackware internationalization project, not a distribution as it is now, and I didn't keep the emails we exchanged.

No need to keep reminding us how many of your computers run OpenBSD then?

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Point well taken, I'll stop doing that. I've voiced my opinion. I'll leave it at that.

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While I do not use Slint, I have tried it and like it. I am of the opinion that your post about Slint (which I read) are perfectly appropriate here.

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Dear OP,

did you have a grudge against Slint?

While I'm not a Slint user, I believe that would be a huge shame if Monsieur Spaier would be shunned away from this forum because some elitists are hurt in their suave feelings.

PS. I do not give a far* for those BSD things. I used several of them in the past and I arrived at conclusion that they are made by and for masochists.

PS2. Did FreeBSD finally made the ATI Radeon HD4350 to work properly? Really? Finally? This would be some long awaited and shocking news.

PS3. This thread remembered me of the old dark days of 10 years ago, when the Slackware derivatives was considered "parasites" ... All of them.

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Derivatives of Slackware are still Slackware, just set up differently from the main Slackware distribution.

Lots of people prefer to find a distro they like the look & feel of, quite often they start with a 'live' version, & then install it, because that is what they want.

I like quite a few of the Slackware derivatives because they don't load your disk up with programs that you will never use, & everything you don't use 'could' be a potential target for crackers/hackers

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