Don't put ideas into its head!

Why this turn up remember me by the Paul movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMuSt5zWJNk

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No matter what far flung part of the galaxy, it would probably still be faster than getting a tshirt to Australia.

Fun reading about all the people using Slackware around the globe. It's good to be reminded that USA is not the center of the Universe! Here in the Pacific NW USA, I know of at least 4 Slackers (myself included) and have heard rumors of a few more. I've been wearing my Slackware cap the past year while traveling for work. Most ignore it, but seem to recognize people who wear Ubuntu swag. Interesting comments:

"Is Slackware still around?" - Unbuntu user at airport
"I think one of the guys down the hall uses Slackware." - employee at a Seattle laboratory
"Linux?" - most clueless Americans...

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More details: we create a wormhole, then transmit/receive data using TTWP (Telepathy Through Wormhole Protocol). Simple for us, but not for primitive carbon-based bipeds.

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Who needs the telepathy when he has a whole wormhole? Just drop into those DVD card boards and shut up!

And so, Gentlemen, we know why the Slackware store was suddenly out of stock for all goods...

Well, I had family in town the last two weeks and was off forums for that time...just checked back in today and discovered a 22 page thread over that same time period...now what kind of slackers are we, surely this is the opposite of slack...oh no wait, our systems are so stable we have this time available...I remember now.

Florida, USA currently...although I have lived in many different places over the years.

This seems to be a worrying trend in this forum. Please get this thread on topic, or it will be closed. More broadly, a very small number of members seem to be derailing threads. If that's you, and you'd like to continue participating here, you need to stop this behavior immediately. If you see this behavior, please report it so we can get it cleaned up. If anyone has any questions, let me know. Thanks.

--jeremy

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Hi Jeremy,

I did not participate in the thread so I may feel more comfortable to ask:

What do you see as worrying in this thread?

I understand that if the question is "has anyone built zebulor-0.2 with glib 2-14?", posts about wormhole telepathy (or systemd) may be out of topic because they derail some serious discussion.

I would not consider the original question in this thread in the same way. We are not in a social science forum where serious guys do serious research about Open Source geography.

And I have seen no aggressive behavior, no ad-hominem attacks. More the signs of a place where people come not only for technical answers but also for lighthearted talk and fun. Isn't it what makes a community?

You are the boss here. So obviously my point here is not to argue or contest or anything. Just to understand your position.

Phil

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'Tis just early symptoms of pre-release fever, an infectious contagion that overwhelms the Slackware community on an approximately biannual basis. It appears to start with lightheadedness in a frivolous thread, progresses through mild delirium, often associated with incantations of "Are we there yet?" and other wild imaginings, that can last for many months. The only known cure for pre-release fever is an actual Slackware release, when pent up tensions are spent in adoring congratulations to the Slackware BDFL and crew. No casualties have been recorded for those affected by pre-release fever.
Closing threads when pre-release fever is on the rise is likely to cause the hydra effect, where many threads grow after one is removed.
My advice is to keep your tentacles off, lest you be quantum translocated to the Andromeda galaxy.

PS - Totally agree with philanc. "You are the boss here." Your site, your rules. But there is a history.

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I'm writing from Europe (not Europa - been there, too cold) and while I can understand your concern, Jeremy, I can reassure you that I wasn't disturbed in any way by this thread going a little off track. Quite the contrary, it has been full of wit and fun to follow. Trying to send Slackware ISO images through telepathy got me a fierce headache, though.

That having been said, I believe that the form of the original post wasn't perfect for its declared purpose. Perhaps doing a poll would have been a more effective way to have an approximate idea of Slackware's geographical influence among LQ members.

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Greetings, biped Jeremy! I have neutralised the sense-of-humour function in brianL's tiny brain, so you will get no more frivolous posts from him.

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Northern California. The first thing that went into the wildfire evacuation bag was my Slackware DVDs.

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Michigan, U.S.A., but sometimes you can find me in Minsk, Belarus.

First post here from a Southern Ontarian Linux relative newbie (just under a year.)

After starting with an Ubuntu flavour and trying a whole whack of Linuxes (and live Haiku and OpenIndiana), I got over my initial wariness of Slackware and installed it a couple of months ago.

I'm not ready to toss Xubuntu, since for me it works solidly on my old machine, but I'm finding Slackware suits very well. The only other Linux that feels as comfortable is Puppy (Slacko and Tahrpup.) I'm also wrestling the OpenBSD bear to see if it will fit, too.

At the same time, I'm playing with Kubuntu and elementary to see if I can interest some of the more graphically-inclined members of the household in Linux, but it's looking like Linux will be a solitary pursuit. Maybe I'll find some Slackers in the neighbourhood. The only coworkers I know of using Linux are on Ubuntu flavours.

But now that the cold is finally really here, it's time get out for fun in the snow and ice for the next few months, and all of those OSs are going to feel a bit neglected until the snow goes away.