Just a nice Slackware article in today's opensource.com

svim · 07-16-2018, 09:49 PM

https://opensource.com/article/18/7/stackware-turns-25

chrisretusn · 07-16-2018, 11:27 PM

Yes that was a nice article.

hitest · 07-16-2018, 11:43 PM

A very nice article indeed!

solarfields · 07-16-2018, 11:56 PM

Did we read the same article? The one I read is not very informative and makes it sound as if Slackware is a rolling distro.

nobodino · 07-17-2018, 12:26 AM

current can be considered as a rolling release (for me at least).

hitest · 07-17-2018, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by solarfields

The one I read is not very informative and makes it sound as if Slackware is a rolling distro.

The article was nice and it mostly got things right. Yes. The rolling distro label was a miss. The article was respectful.

chrisretusn · 07-17-2018, 01:06 AM

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Volkerding and a small team of contributors maintain the tree in a rolling release called "-current" and publish a release when it meets the feature and stability goals they've set.

I caught that too. Aside from the "rolling release" part the sentence is basically correct.

RadicalDreamer · 07-17-2018, 03:33 AM

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Originally Posted by nobodino

current can be considered as a rolling release (for me at least).

Yes, its not intended as a rolling release but that is how some people use it so that's where his impression probably came from in my opinion. Slackware Current runs great and is perfectly usable for a desktop.

Lysander666 · 07-17-2018, 03:44 AM

It's very common, especially in the Debian world, for people to see development versions [e.g. testing, sid] as "rolling releases". I don't think that's something that's going to stop any time soon. It's mostly the newbies.

Thank you for sharing the article, very nice.

Darth Vader · 07-17-2018, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by nobodino

current can be considered as a rolling release (for me at least).

Yep, technically the -current can be seen as a rolling release, with selected snapshots published as stable releases.

brianL · 07-17-2018, 10:05 AM

OK. Not bad. Not as negative or dismissive as some I've read.

mralk3 · 07-17-2018, 10:11 AM

Notice the misspelling in the URL....

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https://opensource.com/article/18/7/stackware-turns-25

Damn you Ben Cotton.

Mechanikx · 07-17-2018, 05:08 PM

Thanks for sharing!

Mechanikx · 07-17-2018, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by mralk3

Notice the misspelling in the URL....

Code:

https://opensource.com/article/18/7/stackware-turns-25

Damn you Ben Cotton.

Nice catch

GazL · 07-18-2018, 06:35 AM

Clearly a Freudian slip relating to the stack of floppys it required.