Slackware 14.0 Linux distribution has arrived - update

Obviously some hyperbole here. Hmmm.......

- Today's posting found at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/17430

- Yesterday's 'Slackware 14.0 Linux distribution has arrived' found at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/174283

- 'Slackware 14 Released!!!' found at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/174244

- 'Slackware 14.0 Linux Released' found at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/174240

- 'Slackware 14.0 is officially released' found at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/174238



Upcoming attractions to be the inevitable flurry of Slackware 14.0 reviews arriving all too soon ??

With about one Slackware release per year, a little fanfare is warranted.

And it's still far more tolerable than the slew of "How to install some really niche program in Ubuntu" that permeate the news wires constantly.

Well, two people beat me to it, so I didn't bother to post one.

But, as gus3 says, a raft of Slackware posts once a year or so beats the continual barrage of Ubuntu this, Ubuntu that, and Ubuntu the other posts.

To match the Ubuntu hype, I'd have to post every update to the Slackware changelog to the wire, with the appropriate glowing exclamations about how great it was, how it was sure to revolutionize the computing experience, and how no one had ever done anything like it before.

Better a flurry than a slurry of Slackware news.

I never thought I would see someone complain about Slackware having too many posts. What is next, too many Gentoo posts? :)

vainrveenr wrote: Upcoming attractions to be the inevitable flurry of Slackware 14.0....

Which are always a hoot, as Slackware changes so little from rev to rev. A new kernel (a given), an optional compiler (I'm sure gcc is still there), and a debugged Firefox. Big whoop! Slack is not one to go fixing what ain't broken, so reviewers will hafta fall back on the old bromides about how stable it is, how Slack has been around longer than iEverything, and how if you don't know the CLI, yer SOL. Notice it's been 3 days since the new release and no reviews. You can always tell if the reviewer is really a GUI fan. ;)

Besides, I never update my Slack box until the rev rev.

nb

> ...as Slackware changes so little from rev to rev.

Which is the way some of us like it.

> ...so reviewers will hafta fall back on the old bromides about how stable it is, how Slack has been around longer than iEverything, and how if you don't know the CLI, yer SOL.

You forgot fast. :)

Quoting:What is next, too many Gentoo posts? :)

It'll never happen. They take too long to build.

@gus3 and jdixon,

Right on!! I'm not holding at least MY breath to wait for Gentooo, Slickware, and the static minor leaguers to come out with their "flurry" of occasional welcome-as-breaths-of-fresh-air announcements. The devs and power-users of Baboontu and its derivatives, OTOH, are absolutely BONKERS of consistently broadcasting evetything-and-the-kitchen-sink to push their distro! Why use facts to support the need for all those Baboontu announcements when fanbois can fabricate a few minor details and regurgitate their own glowing testimonials on THEIR distro fav???

2c

Never too many reviews of my favourite Linux distribution :o)

You mean there aren't any Gentoo Live CD's?

> You mean there aren't any Gentoo Live CD's?

Not as such that I'm aware of. There is Sabayon, which I believe is Gentoo based.

@BernieSwiss and jdixon,

Wasn't there a LiveCD awhile back based on freeBSD?? And IIRC, the startup scripts for Slackware and for the various open source BSD's like this LiveCD are or were all fairly similar, no? And BTW, what's been HAPPENING with new releases of all those non-Linux BSD variants anyway???

fb

These days your best bets for a FreeBSD live DVD are http://pcbsd.org/ and http://ghostbsd.org/

Gentoo releases Live DVD's somewhat regularly - not installable of course (at least not easily so, and not supported for that purpose). SystemRescueCD is also Gentoo based, and among the best in its genre.

Hmmm...

Bookmarked for a rainy day.

Thanks, guys!

I guess I shouldn't post it when SalixOS 14.0 is released unless I want my head handed to me. FWIW, the beta looks very promising. Pity I probably won't use it, except maybe on the really old netbook-like device (Toshiba Libretto L1).

For now, because of the new work environment, I want (need?) to live in SUSE-land.

> I guess I shouldn't post it when SalixOS 14.0...

Ah, live dangerously, Caitlyn. The beta is already out. Surely that's worthy of the newswire. :)

You'll notice that in an attempt to alleviate the Ubuntu boredom, I was posting the Slackware betas to the newswire. I was a day late on the actual release though, not having had time to check while I was at work that day.

> For now, because of the new work environment, I want (need?) to live in SUSE-land.

SuSE has always been a nice distro. The fact that they didn't have a freely downloadable version back in the day was the only reason I never used it.

@caitlyn: I remember there was a time when you were using Slackware - or some derivative - and Xfce as your primary desktop. If you're interested, I spent the past summer honing my company's "Microlinux Enterprise Desktop": a stock Slackware base with an Xfce desktop on steroids. My project is a bit similar to what the GnomeSlackBuild people did with GNOME, except it's based on Xfce.

If you're curious what the whole thing looks like, there are some pages - with screenshots - on my company's website: http://www.microlinux.fr/desktop_linux.php

The code along with all the SlackBuilds and automagic build scripts is here:

$ svn co svn://svn.tuxfamily.org/svnroot/microlinux/slackware

Yesterday evening I just finished the version based on 14.0, and I'm right now busy upgrading my workhorse PC with it.

The idea behind the project is to have a full-blown Slackware-and-Xfce based desktop, a series of apps for all kinds of tasks - office, graphics, multimedia, etc. - one app per task, with all the edges sanded down as much as possbible.

The first 13.37-based prototype is already in use in our local school, on two servers, twenty client machines and sixty users.

If you're still interested in such a thing, drop me a mail (contact info is on my company's website).

Cheers from the sunny south of France.