[TriLUG] Slackware

[Chess Griffin]

* John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> [2008-04-29 16:33:38]:

> On 4/29/08, Patrick Brewer <patwbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Does the back of your shirt imply slackware is still out there somewhere?
> >  I remember the 50 floppy distributions 30 of them were X and emacs. :-)
> 
> despite my wishes to the contrary slakware is still around:
> http://www.slackware.org/
> 
> That is the worst experience with a "modern" linux system i've ever had.

I have been a Slackware subscriber for years and am glad that Patrick
Volkerding has kept the project going.  For me, I have found it to be
the most stable and easiest to use of all Linux distributions.  And
it's still going strong -- keeping with the KISS traditions of being
the oldest surviving Linux distribution around while incorporating
many of the "modern" features like Hal/Dbus, automagic Xorg 7.3,
latest KDE, Xfce, etc.  Slackware 12.1 will be released any day now,
in fact.  And it's got one of the longest security support periods
around -- the Slackware Security Team still provides security updates
for Slackware 8.1, released in 2001 or 2002.

I was fortunate to meet Patrick and several members of the Slackware
team at the KDE 4.0 event at Google earlier this year and it seemed
clear that Slackware will still be around for many years to come.

Maybe it's just that I like "old school" stuff (as I type this in
Mutt) but Slackware is a great Linux distribution, and I think it's
longevity is a testament to that.

-- 
Chess Griffin
GPG Public Key:  0x0C7558C3
http://www.chessgriffin.com
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