Hey Patrick, have you ever considered adding in a limited edition DVD set containing all the software only from the Slackbuilds.org website in source only form to the Slackware Store?

and what is a point?
i think, a very more good idea is variuous slackware bumpersticks, mousepads, gadges, t-shirts and so on.maybe flag too is a good thing - when i got my own home, i be got flagstaff...

SBo usually needs some time to catch up with every new release of Slackware. I would rather like to see sbopkg in /extra.

yes sbopkg in extra would be nice. save having to download it for each install :-)

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where is a "ideas who add to next slackware release" topic? cannot find.
i think, it is be very good too add a iotop command, for monitoring disc activity, esopecially on server

I'm old enough to remember when Slack came with the Sunsite archives. Those were the days ...

I also really like the sbopkg utility. First rate!

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That is a great Idea to come out with a limited edition say 6 months later I am up for it put me on the list.

I think that would go a long way to support everyone. Add the multilib from Alien Bob .
Call it the fat pack.

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From http://www.slackbuilds.org/faq/#affiliation
Your suggestion would at least put PV in an invidious position with SlackBuilds.org contributors and the developers of the open source software that can be accessed from SlackBuilds.org

Fat chance!

the fat pack
i like that ಠ‿ಠ

on the other hand Pat recommending SlackBuilds.org on the new release announcement is probably quite enough:

Selling the disc would imply an endorsement of the slackbuilds supplied, many of which would be out of date before you know it. Then what? You'd have to keep rsyncing all the packages and burning new discs. What if an update in the changelog broke a package supplied in the slackbuild disc? It could give newcomers a bad impression of Slackware.

Slackware is supplied as is and anything outside of that then, as we all well know in here, you're on your own and I'm sure the maintainers have enough to be going on with to keep them occupied without having to keep one eye on a set of third party packages.

It could however be quite a good idea for the people at slackbuilds.org, maybe they could get some mileage out of supplying the discs themselves. Would be very useful for users on slow or patchy internet connections, especially at the installation phase.

downloading the entire SlackBuild scripts repository is so small, so it's not that hard to get

if we have to provide the source for all of the SlackBuild scripts (there are like 4145 packages currently), then it would take more than 1 DVDs to hold just the source. And as you said, some would be out of date when they reached customer's hand

Like to point out that Pat has added all kinds of stuff in the past. I agree it is his distro and the community is the market and looks like they are marketing.
Not to put Pat in a position. Do like the magazine did with his 10.2 and have all kinds of other stuff on double sided DVD. I believe that DVD was the birth of slax. at least the concept.

In the long run it will keep his church grass cut.

Just FYI, a complete set of SBo source downloads is ~ 33 Gb

That's WHY this idea can/will work...

I known people who live on-line, using a 3G USB modem connection, something like 15 EUR, 10Gb, per month. To download the entire SBo sources, technically they have to pay, only for Internet connection, about 45 EUR and to wait about 3 months...

So, buying the DVD's can be a economical and even faster solution for some slackers...