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I don't see any harm in a few off-topic comments in threads. Of course YOU would say that, Brian, wouldn't you? Being guilty of that grievous sin!
As an ancient Oldham philosopher said: "A mind that does not wander never gets anywhere."
The problem with that is, if like me you run headless servers, no X no kde no useless desktop stuff... you end up recompiling a lot of stuff from source, or playing the dependancy wack-a-mole game because so much of the packages Pat builds unlike R.H. etc, is on a full system, this pulls in X libs and related deps you have to install, or things dont work.
So desktop users shouldn't benefit from what those dependencies do offer those packages? Pat should compile a system using the lowest common denominator? How do you decide what the lowest common denominator is?
If you don't run a full system, then that's a choice one is willingly making and that may result in broken packages that might require recompiling or tracking down those dependencies.
Back in 2015 I was reprimanded by the LQ Admin team for posting off-topic content here on the LQ Slackware forum. I have a non-expiring warning associated with my account. That is, if I post more off-topic content I may be banned.
Boy, those grapes took a long time to go sour!
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Anyway it's just a request and I appreciate the fact that I'm permitted to defend my point of view without being clobbered by moderators. I acknowledge and respect the fact that my point of view is not shared by the community for the most part. I accept that. I really enjoy rational discourse (minus the personal attacks, haha).
My reason for asking is that I was curious as to what triggered your post. From what I see, posts related to Slackware derivatives are not a common occurrence in this part of the forum.
Yeah that's the first time I think I've spoken publicly about that. I accepted my reprimand.
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My reason for asking is that I was curious as to what triggered your post. From what I see, posts related to Slackware derivatives are not a common occurrence in this part of the forum.
Agreed. I enjoyed the opportunity to voice my opinion.
Yeah, slamd64 was OK as the forerunner of Slackware64. Ages ago I ran Zenwalk for quite a while. Think my first question on LQ was about it. I've tried Salix, too. Both good, but I'm a maximalist - so I settled for Slackware itself.
A stickied thread perhaps, where we can discuss the merits of derivatives - what is their unique value that justifies their existence, and should Slackware absorb some of these unique and valuable features?
But also to point out the differences with the mother (Slackware) that make it impossible to support these derivatives here in the Slackware forum.
Some derivatives can influence their parent distro. I'm sure Ubuntu has influenced Debian. Whether it's a good thing or bad? I'm inclined to think bad.
Never is too late to hijack a thread, you known...
Anyway, your idea would be way more interesting than the original subject.
Agreed. I've never tried any of them, but I would be interested to hear which ones people use and why. Because of this thread, I went and poked around a few of their websites.
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