I just had an amusing exchange with Pat V on Twitter. He doesn't tweet much, so this one caught my eye:

Patrick Volkerding ‏@volkerdi 41 minutes ago

To provide a proper retro experience for the modern user, Slackware 14.2 will be shipped on three dozen 64MB USB flash drives.


Naturally I responded with "The Question":

Glen the Cynic ‏@glenjstrom 34 minutes ago

@volkerdi Is this your weird way of making some kind of announcement? ;->



His response:

Patrick Volkerding ‏@volkerdi 32 minutes ago

@glenjstrom Never Trust A Prankster


I think maybe someone is getting into the eggnog early. ;->

I got a great eggnog recipe from Charles Mingus.

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This might get me to sign up for Twitter, a thing that I have resisted most energetically.

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Are the first two USB keys going to be a "boot" USB key and a "root" USB key?

Could you imagine buying a case full of USB drives to install Slackware?

Would you care to share it with us ?

A few packages will be served sliced.

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I'm pissed! I want to be able to download all 1337 floppy-disk images and burn them to boot 14.2 on my old 486 with 1MB RAM. I mean, come on! He can't be gonna leave all us *real* luddites behind in the dust -we've already caved in once years ago when we had to give our 386-ers...

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Ignore that last post from my account -that was my twin brother Hyde who likes to catch me gone to the toilet while logged in on LQ. The poor fellow still hasn't gotten the difference between 1969 and 1996 -we try to protect him from himself, but can't always protect ourselves from him. For years, he's been e-mailing Pat V. whenever a new release was close -he claims to *know* when the new release will happen- anyway, he's been bugging Pat since the last century to finally include swaret! At least in /extra

Myself, I'm hoping to be able to download the whole 1.2 terabytes of the new release as a single image. My X-fart 12,000 machine can download and compile all those sources in nothing flat. And -I can feel it my bones, Pat is gonna surprise us all by including builds of every thing on sbo in /extra -plus the big move over to SystemD! I'm sure of it! Just think about the mysterious way that Slackware-64 suddenly appeared outta nowhere. Not a soul was expecting that. And then, the way that BlueWhite-64 suddenly disappeared around the same time -I'm tellin' ya' -something BIG is about to happen! OMG, I just had a flash -maybe GNOME is gonna be brought back... I mean, it was dropped because of being *too* modular and now KDE has become even worse than GNOME...

How do we know which of you is Dr Jekyll

Question.

You are at a Y like crossroad and want to go to Berlin, but there is no indication.

At the the crossroad you see two twin brothers. Knowing that one of them always tells the truth and the other one always lie, what single question can you ask to any of them to always get an helpful answer?

If I were to ask your brother which is the fork leading to Berlin, what would he say?

Good! You won the right to ask the next question.

That would be, "Which is the road to Berlin?". Both brothers can be counted on to give an entirely accurate answer, taking into account their 'fame'. You'd certainly not want to start arguing with either about his answer, though, -they both being Germans, you understand.

I remember a time when it took a bunch of floppy disks to install or backup stuff. And I'm talking 5 1/4", not that modern 3.5" stuff.

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Hey - I'm old enough to to have used the 8" floppies - with a whoppin' 128KB each ...

And ... the sysadm had 5MB available for all the researchers - any file not accessed in the last 14 days got trashed! That was something teaching you the value of backups ...