I learned a lot years ago and still learn from Slackware and I believe it helped me to progress in my job. KISS Slack implementation is powerfully inspiring, not only just another OS.
Slackware + crew and community docs, wiki, tools and builds = brain hacking toolbox.
Thank you all.

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+1 to the team!

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Absolutely thanks!

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Yes, Thank you to the Slackware team for the incredible job !!!!

I hope that the strong show of support displayed in this thread will provide some comfort to those in the team who may start to feel that their contribution might be of little use. No it's not!!! It's really appreciated even if we don't show our satisfaction as often as we should.

I'd admit that I'm not naturally inclined to post just to say I'm very happy with Slackware.

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Yes, it's an excellent distro and all involved deserve much kudos.

An excellent distro that -- pardon my saying, as a relative newbie, and as one whose written his own share of unconsidered posts -- has an official forum that currently reflects less than well on the project. So maybe something tangible (though far less tangible than dvd purchases or donations) those of us whose posts may not always add much value to the world, or that might even damage motivation in some cases, could do is to try to self-filter a bit more. I hear Richard Stallman has a trick where he saves away potential emails and only hits send hours or a day later. It's been my experience that surrounding community affects one's perception of a project and that there's a limit to how much lounge style conversation a forum can have without causing problems. Personally, when I see a lot of idle talk I often notice myself joining (uh, like right now) without having much substantial to offer, feeling that the bar is lower. So self-filtering can have the knock on effect of helping others to self-filter better.

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Not "all" Eric. A friend of mine has a saying "Don't let the bastards get you down."
That saying is not aimed at anyone, it is a reminder that we are not alone and we all
feel the World pushing back at times.

Many have posted here how valuable your freely given effort is, and I agree completely.

I would like to mention something else that I appreciate very much; that is your
presents here. I think you are the only core member that very actively posts here.

Some of us here try to contribute back our time to improving Slackware and it is great
to have a comment from a core member; even when you think my attempted contribution
sucks... it is better then dead silence. So I thank you not only for your work on
Slackware, but the time you spend here as well.

8< --------
A shout out to Robby, it is good to see you back here too! Sorry you are not as active
here as you used to be.

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Pat, I know you are here too, though often silent. At least you're taking time to
read what we have to say.

Big thank you to all of the contributors, large and small, it all counts.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!

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I'm not sure if you'll read this, Eric, but you and the other contributors are intensely appreciated. For what you've done, you have my heartfelt admiration. If you only accomplished a third of what you have, I would still hold you in the highest esteem.

I've been a programmer for thirty-six years, and a Slackware user since 1996 (like Ser, I got the CD from the back of Linux Unleashed). In all that time, I've mostly written tools and libraries for myself (besides what I've written for my employers), and shared them just in case anyone found them useful.

A few (and I do mean few, like I can count them on my fingers) people have found some of them useful. It's a miniscule contribution to the state of technology, but I'm proud of it nonetheless.

You, on the other hand, have contributed to solutions which are used and appreciated by .. how many? Thousands? Tens of thousands? More? Whatever the number, it's orders of magnitude more than I've been able to manage. You should be proud, very proud.

And if "things" are going perpendicular to the way you like them, I can totally understand that. I've tried chasing the in-crowd down dubious paths, and it's always ended in regrets. When I've gone the way I want to go, sometimes it's been for naught, but on the whole I have benefited from doing so. And compared to you, I'm something of a fuckup.

If you take yourself and your work in the direction you want them to go, I guarantee it will find acceptance among some, and you will have more than enough reason for satisfaction.

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To PV, Eric, RWorkman, Ponce and all the Slackware crew:

I echo your words, Onebuck!

As I have said elsewhere,

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This.

5 shiny stars to this thread. Well done, onebuck.

There are way more Slackware users who use it for much more solid reasons than "just because of the logo", and I hope Eric will be made aware of that, and be reassured. Regarding the other so-called "users" (i.e. fake-users) just let 'em go, no one will miss them.

Fellow Slackers, next time a "mass exodus" thread is started by a well disguised troll, obviously trying to sow discord, why not just be tough and ignore it solemnly? It's apparently so easy.

So thank you, Pat, Eric, and the whole Team. Slackware deserves my subscription, and I hope those who still didn't make any form of donation will do that soon, to concretely show support and allow this excellent distribution to be maintained.

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Patrick and the whole team have made using a computer (for me) a joyful experience.
No other OS comes close.

All you people have my highest esteem.

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Many thanks to the slackware team
and to alien bob especially for the multilib

I love linux, but slackware is something special.

There's a reason that, wherever I wander, I always come back to Slackware and, no matter how many distros I've hopped, I always had at least one Slackware box. The elegant simplicity of Slackware is not matched by any other OS--that is "any other OS," not "any other distro."

The person who created Slackware and those who maintain and support it are why that is so.

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Like you I am curious and I do enjoy trying out a variety of OSs. I always come home to Slackware. At the moment I'm in beta testing mode running -current on 3/4 of my Slackware boxes. Slackware64-current and Slackware-current are running very well indeed. Slackware 14.2 will be a stellar release.

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Slackware is the best, I trust in Pat, Eric and other developers