Sigh.
Since I've run Slackware desktop PCs here for ages, anywhere from 2-6 systems, current a pair each with 14.2 and current, for all my desktop computing needs (finance stuff, news feeds, web surfing, video player, music player, some light programming, education, gaming...), which incidentally takes no more effort to keep running than MSDOS/Win3.x/WIn95/Win98 et al back in the day, I truly wonder, if Slackware, and indeed all "Year of the Linux Desktop" PCs, are truly dead, am I still alive? Is it all a dream of dying neurons that I am typing this message on a web forum, in Firefox, in Xfce-X.Org, on a modern fully updated Linux operating system connected to the internet?

Is Slackware dead? Is Linux?

Am I dead?

Hello?

Hello?

...end transmission...no route to host.

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Best Ivandi post for a while. Then again, you're a bit Schrödinger yourself

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if i was the marketing guy for Slackware i would not be a happy man this morning. In retrospect, this should have been the response to @MX-angel


Your new here and i can sort of see where you are coming from. But no Slackware is very much alive i'd like to introduce you to slackware and show you its benefits, and maybe get you started with using it. Of course if you get any problems at all we are all friendly on this forum and i'm sure there would be many willing to help you out. Then you might have had a user; a user==supporter== £


Probably we will never know.

Has anybody heard the phrase " a little bit of sand, here and there can add up to a desert "

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This. If you care about public image you don't respond to trolls with flames. You take the criticism on the chin and calmly state your position.

In case this isn't entirely obvious, Slackware *is* the odd one out for not having a major release for so long. When you're the odd one out you can expect this to surprise people, some people will just get annoyed and troll (whether politely or not), others will leave. For me, trolling is a positive thing. If they bothered to post, that implies some kind of investment in the future of the distro. Why would they care, and why would they post *here* of all places, they have many other forums to choose from:

https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

I bet half of those distros don't even install on my hardware.

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my point is that we do not know what was in the mind of MX-angel we do not know if he was intentionally provocative ; if it was a genuine issue of being naive then he was miss-treated.


My point is that responses might have been more considered and ultimately more users == more sustainability.

Responding or not responding to -ve troll is another point.

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Fair enough, but In the eyes of the viewer, a troll and a dumb question/observation can be indistinguishable.

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I haven't but I will be using it from this point on. Thank you wise-one.

OP hasn't been back since his first post. Considering that along with how easy it would have been for him to find several nearly identical threads to his own, I think it is fair enough to assume it was just a drive-by troll job.

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I "entered" Slackware backwards in a sense... was initially fixed on MX Linux (which isn't very hard to fall in love with), but as I kept digging in old archieves and Linux "what, where and howto"'s lessons, I decided a purist DOS-like approach was the thing for me.

So went looking for a non-systemd distro, got a list generated by Distro-Watch (thank you very much!) and came across the slackware philosophy

"A distribution which is released when stable and not according to a fixed schedule."

Yes! Please!


But I must say, my heart sank when I first visited http://www.slackware.com

Updated 2016-07-01... links to support store...

Oh nooo...It's dead?!

Later on I of course became so much wiser (relatively speaking), but I seriously thinks Pat needs a secretary...


Now, that's just being flat out lazy!

All you really had to do, was taking some time to read the changelog.

I would claim, it's actually one step above being alive...

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What worries me more is that we are one month into 2020 already and there's no new posts on noobfarm.org this year.

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The Dead Collector: *DING!* BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!

Lennart Poettering: Here's one.

The Dead Collector: That'll be 500 jiffies.

Slackware: I'm not dead.

The Dead Collector: What?

Lennart Poettering: Nothing, here's your 500 jiffies. systemctl stop Slackware.

Slackware: I'm not dead.

The Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.

Lennart Poettering: Yes he is.

Slackware: I'm not.

The Dead Collector: He isn't.

Lennart Poettering: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill. He won't add my wonderful systemd.

Slackware: I'm getting better, and I'm smart for not including systemd.

(All apologies to Monty Python members, both living and deceased... and also any m00se.)

*The author of this post has just been sacked...*

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@montagdude


OP hasn't been back since his first post. Well lets say he was a troll so;
1)No its not safe to assume anything and your basically giving justification for repsonses
2) Do we stoop to his level
3) if he wasn't a troll does anybody really blame him for not coming back ?but I

@JanK ... seriously thinks Pat needs a secretary.

Not sure about that .. but I would have thought that for sustainability slackware needs every supporter and user it can get.

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I for one would like to see the tiny errors on website and in readme files weeded out...

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@mishehu, you owe me a keyboard!