Slackware 15 - the casuals moving in
by zeebra from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5KSQ7)
Wow, it seems that Slackware 15 is really close now, and I can't wait! Sadly last round(14.2) didn't fit for me for various reasons to get back to Slackware properly.
I've been on the lazy train for about 10 years now (and I don't mean Ubuntu or anything that bad).
Looking at the changelog, I just have to say, good job and wow. Not sure everyone appreciate how much goes into it! (and I'm not wowing any particular changes, just in general). So, thanks for the efforts!
Anyways, looking at some of the updates, it does look like it leaves alot of room to experiment with some modern open source stuff (that some people might want to toy with), and as such re-enforce the slackwareness in a way.
I think I need to shake of some of the laziness and really get back into it, and it seems like Slackware 15 will be a perfect match for me personally. I've been using a somewhat tinker friendly distro for awhile, but it's not made for tinkering, so it has been easy to give up before tinkering is complete. The methodology just wasn't inbuilt. But it's not like other distroes these days that are tinker unfriendly and breaks with any kind of changes, and get's angry reactions when you ask the community about doing something "not the distro way" (ehem, Fedora).
But it stops short of forcing you to learn what you need to learn. You might as well give up and just do nothing and keep using the productiveness of the system without the changes you want.
Due to some changes in the "open source" community, I was even considering giving BSD a proper run. But that's not a good solution either. Both GNU and Linux is still fundamentally (a) good system(s), despite some others trying to force their way into the mix.
I need to catch up with some new developments in the GNU/Linux ecosystem, and Slackware was where I first learned GNU/Linux, and will hopefully be the place where I update my knowledge too (the deeper knowledge, not the superficial).
So, I'm kind of like a child waiting for Christmas.
I've been on the lazy train for about 10 years now (and I don't mean Ubuntu or anything that bad).
Looking at the changelog, I just have to say, good job and wow. Not sure everyone appreciate how much goes into it! (and I'm not wowing any particular changes, just in general). So, thanks for the efforts!
Anyways, looking at some of the updates, it does look like it leaves alot of room to experiment with some modern open source stuff (that some people might want to toy with), and as such re-enforce the slackwareness in a way.
I think I need to shake of some of the laziness and really get back into it, and it seems like Slackware 15 will be a perfect match for me personally. I've been using a somewhat tinker friendly distro for awhile, but it's not made for tinkering, so it has been easy to give up before tinkering is complete. The methodology just wasn't inbuilt. But it's not like other distroes these days that are tinker unfriendly and breaks with any kind of changes, and get's angry reactions when you ask the community about doing something "not the distro way" (ehem, Fedora).
But it stops short of forcing you to learn what you need to learn. You might as well give up and just do nothing and keep using the productiveness of the system without the changes you want.
Due to some changes in the "open source" community, I was even considering giving BSD a proper run. But that's not a good solution either. Both GNU and Linux is still fundamentally (a) good system(s), despite some others trying to force their way into the mix.
I need to catch up with some new developments in the GNU/Linux ecosystem, and Slackware was where I first learned GNU/Linux, and will hopefully be the place where I update my knowledge too (the deeper knowledge, not the superficial).
So, I'm kind of like a child waiting for Christmas.