Hi,
Just donated via the little button on Eric's blog .. no problems. paypal did its thing very nicely ... I use vivaldi on 14.2 if that matters.

Modern website design??? .. UUUGGHH .. all that yellow text on an orange background! ... or some such malarky.
For those of us who are a "certain age" whose eyesight is not what it used to be, Slackware's simple, easy to read, FAMILIAR website is just right.

cheers
pete

pete hilton
saruman@ruvolo-hilton.org

Well-known Old Fart and Curmudgeon

Alien Bob (Eric Hameleers) All the work that is done for us at a cost.
 

I really appreciate the fact that Slackware.com can be viewed with Firefox just as easily as Links, ELinks, or any other text based browsers. K.I.S.S. The rest of the Linux world has lost sight of simplicity.

Slackware.com needs a link to https://docs.slackware.com/ on its main page.

It's got one. Look again.

Made a modest non-recurring donation as I use a good range of alienbob's builds.

Edit: electricity cost is estimated at 50 euros per month per server according to a comment on alienbob's blog.

Maybe it is something to be considered. Has anyone actually tried to use the Slackware site? Try to follow links in the FAQ for instance. Look at the questions and see if they are a good fit for modern computers and the latest release of Slackware. Are they a good fit? What would a newcomer think?

I like the fact that the Slackware site is accessible with any type of web browser, even a text based browser like lynx. A newcomer going to Slackware.com will know that we're not a pointy-clicky distro. Research and reading is required.

I just followed every link provided on the slackware.com front page, and several of the links on the pages they linked.

All of them were relevant and up to date, and there is no shortage of quality content.

If I were to criticize at all, it's that there's an awkward functional overlap between the FAQ and the slackbook. The FAQ is incomplete (as a FAQ should be), but contains things that one would expect to find in the slackbook, and someone browsing the FAQ should be made aware that more help is available in the slackbook.

So perhaps the FAQ could be re-implemented as deep links into the slackbook (and the answers moved to the slackbook when not already there), or decorated with "for more on this subject" links to the slackbook.

This is a minor quibble, though, and I stand by my previous position -- the website is good enough as-is, and given a choice between working on it for an hour and working on Slackware for an hour, I'd vote for the latter (if I got a vote, which I don't, which is fine).

Frequently Asked Questions - In this day and age how many questions get asked concerning floppy disk installation? FREQUENTLY asked questions should be just that!

Slackware General FAQ
http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=general

Questions are numbered Q0, Q1, Q2, etc. while the answers are numbered Q, Q, Q, etc. I find this odd and it makes it hard to find the correct answer for each question given that some questions are anchored to the wrong answers and some questions even lack an anchor altogether. It would make more sense for A1 to be the answer for Q1.

Q0 - This question actually is rather dated. The question and the answer make not much sense in a world where we are waiting for Slackware 15 to be released.

Q2 is anchored to answer Q. The content of this answer is correctly related to the question however the answer should no longer include Alpha and SPARC systems but rather should include the S/390, S/390x, and ARM systems but they are mentioned on the page http://www.slackware.com/ports so maybe this question is not needed at all.

Q3 has no anchor.

Q4 is anchored to the answer for Q3.

Q5 is anchored to the answer for Q4.

Q6 - This question itself is actually rather dated. It implies that Slackware is still stuck in the days of floppy disks and that iso releases will be sometime in the future. It is anchored to the answer for Q5. Newcomers to Slackware are sure to be confused by this question.

Q7 has no anchor.

I did not notice any issues with the Slackware site, but also a long time Linux user and habitual distro hopper at times. So I do not know what a newcomer expects. When I was new too Linux (2000) I expected to learn and adopt in accordance to what the veterans expected. Call me old fashioned but I would expect the same of newcomers today.

George you know what to do. If the FAQ and documentation is not to your liking, roll up the sleeves and write and contribute. :-)

The only "issue" may perhaps be the removal of the old 13.37 gif of the Slackware logo (the one that changes to 1337sp34k every now and then. :D