Interesting although flattering at the surface it lacks in few (key?) points:

1. One of the screenshots shows gnome as an install option

2. The author avoids any mention of Slack Builds org as there is only Arch's AUR and BSD's ports as a equivalent - other distros just host/roll their own packages

3. The author seems to intentionally make the fact that Slackware is the oldest actively developed distro in existence - fuzzy and obscure, why?


Other than that, I wouldn't say it sports the 90's oddnes:

Slackware Linux is what you see if you ssh/telnet for a living anyway, and it still has a nice GUI besides of that.

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Yeap
do you think I should follow David's advice?

The first paragraph of that blog refers to Slackware's non-user friendly roots and a website that looks unchanged from the 90's. Hardly endearing by the writer. He goes on to completely miss the point and allude to how "hard" Slackware is to work with, and his main reason to use the distro is if you're nostalgic or "an anti-systemd diehard". I think reading (between the lines) the last paragraph of that blog, it tells the viewer everything they need to know.

IMHO it's misrepresented by the title, which should read, "Slackware is not the Right Linux Distribution for You - Here's why not..."

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How about :

"How dare You even consider Slackware as a right distro for You"

Sounds more modern?

All i know is:
- once i waded into modding routers into free/open firmware i was like at home - all due to Slackware.

there might be many more examples, but we might digress from the thread?

So I read
Nuff said.

That's about the only unopinionated and impartial statement in the whole thing.

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Those days are over: in 2021, you can fire up a shiny new virtual private server running slackware for 20 zloty / month: ssh is less challenging than ffplay for an old Lenovo... when you need to do something powerful, upgrade the VPS to 32CPUS, perform powerful compilations in minutes, then downgrade back to affordable VPS... and the github won't charge you to host stable igadoternix...

In other words, building your own stable version of slackware is totally doable on weak hardware, simply by temporarily connecting to powerful hardware for hire--you only need an account long enough to perform your builds... then share it all at free github, and close down vps... possible with 1 day and the price of a few loafs of bread.

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Thanks slac-in-the-box. I will rethink this.

Edit: But mind Poland is not USA. Remote learning is not possible here because too few households have both computer and internet access. Shame but true. My estimate is about 30% percent only. So at least 30-50 % of children don't have access to computer with internet. I am posting for you to realize that things can be not so simple to achieve here.

Absolutely - people should be on the alert for weasel words:

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That's some BS you quoted there, where the heck did you find that?

Last time I checked "plug'n'play" worked in Slackware too, lol. And nostalgic to be able to control your own computer? What is he trying to say, GNU/Linux otherwise have turned into windows? Disgusting.
Sad to see that those are some of the opinions you can find around about Slackware. Sounds utterly prejudice and ignorant, makes me a bit annoyed actually.

"Slackware, your tinker friendly distro"
"Slackware, it just works"
"Slackware, elegance in simplicity"

There you go, that's better.

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See post #196.

I am neither shocked nor surprised at the comments. Every "review" of a Linux distribution seems to be based on this metric of "ease of use" or "ease of installation" and little else. Someone pointed out that gnome was present in the installer options in an image used in that "review" so the reviewer didn't even use original material.

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All --

I rarely reply to these threads but here goes

If history is a guide, Slackware 15.0 is imminent because ...

• Installed Slackware Current on kjhlt5 in QT1 2011 which became Slackware 13.37 after I 'went live' on kjhlt5
• Installed Slackware Current on kjhlt6 in QT1 2016 which became Slackware 14.2 after I went live on kjhlt6
• Installed Slackware Current on kjhlt7 on Nov 7 2021 and I will be going live this weekend now that I understand how to manage Kernels in GRUB2 a little bit

So ... with my last two LapTops, I went thru the process of renaming current/ and switching my SlackBuilds over to Stable.

My guess for Slackware 15.0 is some time fairly soon after Dec 5 so I can go thru my traditional processes of renaming my local current/ mirrors to 15.0/

Maybe Dec 25 ?

-- kjh( ho Ho HO )

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Which will come first: the end of this thread or 15.0?

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Really?

How about this:
how many [SOLVED] can a thread contain in the title?
OFC it will live thru the 15.0 glorious arrival