Are most Slackers in Europe these days?

Didier Spaier · 12-07-2017, 02:56 PM

And yet another true Slacker in Asia: travis82.

ruario · 12-07-2017, 03:01 PM

Another non-European/non-North American is stf92 is in South America (Argentina)

ruario · 12-07-2017, 03:03 PM

we are actually quite a good mix, to be honest!

ruario · 12-07-2017, 03:06 PM

On a semi related topic, I am gonna guess that after English, French is probably the next most popular language amongst the Slackers here. Any of you Canadians speak French?

broch · 12-07-2017, 03:53 PM

living in so many places but always (well most of the time) using Slackware

sombragris · 12-07-2017, 04:15 PM

From Asunción, Paraguay. I know there are many other Slackers in South America. Brazil is a force to be reckoned with. Piter Punk (from BR, IIRC) gave us slackpkg...

And I found this in a very old ChangeLog:

Code:

Mon Sep 24 20:25:12 UTC 2012
<snip>
l/gamin-0.1.10-i486-5.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Patched to fix a deadlock bug, and to fix building against recent libraries.
  Thanks to sberthelot, sombragris, and ponce on LQ.

Yay!!

Daedra · 12-07-2017, 04:24 PM

Currently languishing away in rural Missouri on a 10Mbit DSL connection. Hopefully getting out of here and moving to Kansas City, Austin, or Los Angeles. Moving back to LA would be my preference, I am just not sure I want to sell a kidney to afford to live there again. Also hoping that those cities have more Linux jobs, there are literally none here.

BrianW · 12-07-2017, 09:33 PM

Considering that my quick search shows the population of Northern, Western, Eastern, and Southern Europe to be twice that of the USA alone, wouldn't it be reasonable that the European traffic is greater than North America? Perhaps South America is (a) forgotten, (b) goes elsewhere for their forums or (c) should pick up the slack... ;-)

Darth Vader · 12-07-2017, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by brianL

I get suspicious when a Rumanian mentions my blood - I've seen all the Dracula films.

Ha ha!

Well, to note that the real Dracula was not a Count, but a King. And in Old Romanian, the word "Dracula" has the sense of "The Son of (a) Dragon".

It was an appreciation nickname of the King Vlad III Hunyad, a tall and massive man with herculean force, who used to have heavy battles with the Ottoman Empire (the Turks).

Basically, he's the one stopped the Ottoman Empire to invade the Europe and halted them at Wien (capital of Austria even today).

While "Dracula" was his appreciation nickname, he had also a bad nickname: "The Impaler", because his favorite punishment to outlaws.

Finally, the King Vlad III The Impaler is one of the ancestors of the actual British Royal Family, basically the Queen Elizabeth being his grand-grand-grand-...-grand-daughter.

Richard Cranium · 12-07-2017, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by gmgf

It's the Trump effect

Stop that. Now.

EDIT: I can get into political arguments almost anywhere else on the internet. I don't come here to LQ to do that; it's a safe harbor from that crap.

Darth Vader · 12-07-2017, 10:29 PM

I explained him that, already, that the mods will become grumpy if politics are added in the mix. See later my explanation.

frankbell · 12-07-2017, 10:30 PM

Slack knows not boundaries.

Quote:

It's the Trump effect.

Don't get me started.

Darth Vader · 12-07-2017, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by frankbell

Don't get me started.

Calm down, he knows already from the others explanation.

Pixxt · 12-07-2017, 10:37 PM

Remember a time when Slackware was big In Brazil or there was a lot of Brazilian Slackware users like 10 to 15 years ago?

Darth Vader · 12-07-2017, 10:39 PM

If I understand right, the Slackware community is really huge in Brazil, but they are mostly active in their local sites.

Oh well, "local", considering the Brazil dimensions...