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View Poll Results: What is Slackware's most enduring virtue?
SlackBuilds / The ability to compile from source 73 36.14%
BSD-style init system 82 40.59%
It just works! 145 71.78%
Text-based installer 44 21.78%
Other (comment in posts below) 25 12.38%
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Old 03-11-2020, 04:36 PM   #241
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The game now of course is trying to find open hardware on which to run Slackware and its deblobbed cousin, Freenix. For me running Slackware is a message: I bought my computer: I own it, and I want it to listen to its owner, and not serve another master, the way SCerovec put it. But no matter how open-source linux is, if spyware lurks in the firmware of the chips on the motherboard, then, we need new motherboards with opensource firmware. I tried to get a pine64, but they're all stuck in china: ironically the cororna virus slows down computers.
I learned something new today, thanks! I didn't know about the Freenix project. Just downloaded it to try it out.
 
Old 03-11-2020, 05:19 PM   #242
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Switching and using linux became more than just sound business decisions: corporate operating systems and the software that runs on them ticked me off enough to lose my loyalty forever. From many of the rants in this thread, I've gleaned I'm not alone with this sentiment. If a game doesn't run on linux, then I don't play it.
This sentiment strikes a chord. I dual-booted Slackware and OS/2 for years, until I decided in 1998 to go open-source only. If there wasn't an open-source tool to do what I needed to do, I would either make/adapt something to work, or do without it.

It felt like a shaky step at the time, but it has proven to be the right one. Since then, commercial software has veered off in malevolent directions, and the open source ecosystem has exploded beyond my expectations. It seems like there is a tool (or several) for every purpose.

Slackware has been the cornerstone of my open-source policy, and it serves admirably. While other distributions go off the rails, Slackware remains absolutely sane and reliable.
 
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Old 03-11-2020, 05:46 PM   #243
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Slackware has been the cornerstone of my open-source policy, and it serves admirably. While other distributions go off the rails, Slackware remains absolutely sane and reliable.
Yes!! I've been a proud Slacker since 2004; it's my operating system of choice. I grudgingly maintain one Windows 10 Pro laptop for my teenager(I spend far too much time on that unit).
Other distros that have an_init_system_that_shall_be_unspoken hold no fascination for me.
Slackware does what I want.
 
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Old 03-11-2020, 05:47 PM   #244
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It felt like a shaky step at the time, but it has proven to be the right one. Since then, commercial software has veered off in malevolent directions, and the open source ecosystem has exploded beyond my expectations. It seems like there is a tool (or several) for every purpose.
Prescient thinking and a smart move on your part.

I may not be able to avoid it in the workplace, but I'm looking forward to leaving behind my dependence on Apple and Adobe at home.
 
  


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