What's the point of this distro, other than boomer nostalgia?I just installed some packages and some of them are 4-5 years old. Debian is a bleeding edge distro compared to this.
same purpose as any distro other than fedora (or ubuntu pre snap): screenshot threads
>>107531281>boomer nostalgialast REAL linuxif you know SAARch - u know archif you know sls\slackware - you know LinuxSlackware can be easily beyond the expert level Linuxhttps://youtu.be/xIBiBF6029Y?t=1024
>>107531281It’s a pleasant enough system to deal with. It’d be much more compelling if they cleaned up the packaging such as to allow a more “minimal” install, but I get the sense that Slackware big-shots think this is somehow against the ethos.
>>107531369>if you know SAARch - u know arch>if you know sls\slackware - you know LinuxMaybe in 1990. Now it's the other way around. All Linux distros are more or less converging, while Slackware got stuck in 1995 or so. If you know slackware, you know slackware.>expert>simplicityThere's nothing "advanced" about Slackware. It's just an outdated and half-assed Linux distro. If you really want simplicity install Alpine.
>>107531281can't even setup ssl properly on official siteso yeah, useless boomer nostalgia bait
>>107531434>*fixes your half-assed Linux distro*
>>107531484Does Salix have an option to follow Slackware’s -current branch?
>>107531281It's the windows xp of Linux
>>107531444>simplicity install AlpineIt's not a holywar thread about "glibc vs musl" I use and love Alpine. But not as daily driver for sure. If you using Alpine as daily so well .. it's your decision and choice. Nothing wrong with it.But still Slackware is the good way to learn Linux as well as Slackware can be more STABLE comparing even to Debian.
>>107531537STABLE meaning bugs and issues will never be fixed?
>>107531550at least no new ones will be introduced either.
>>107531537It's not musl that makes Alpine simple. Sure, it's one reason, but not _the_ reason. Everything in Alpine is just extremely simple. Busybox is simple. The package manager is simple. Openrc is simple. It just works. And it fucking flies too.Slackware niggers unironically want you to install every single package in their repos. How is having to have Gnome, KDE and XFCE installed in my computer at the same time because my package manager can't follow dependencies simple? "Just install 5000 packages in your computer bro". Half-assed =/= simple.
>>107531521I don't think so. I'm sure you can install packages from -current, but I don't think you can upgrade the whole system to -current.
reminder that glibc won and muslimtroons lost
>>107531625glibc is for trannies
>>107531968musl stands for mutilated and useless shim library, you're the tranny
>>1075312811. Long-lived, air-gapped, or semi-air-gapped systems - Labs, factories, research equipment. - Systems that run unchanged for 10–15 years. - No auto-updates, no background services. - Predictability over churn.2. Embedded / appliance-like deployments (non-Yocto) - Fixed hardware, frozen software stacks. - Simpler than Yocto for small expert teams. - Init scripts easy to audit.3. Environments hostile to systemd (practical reasons) - Readable init during outages. - Shell scripts over opaque state machines. - Debuggable over serial consoles.4. Regulated or audited systems - Fewer moving parts. - No auto-enabled services. - Startup behavior is explicit and inspectable.5. Forensic / recovery systems - Inert by default. - Nothing starts unless explicitly configured. - No background network activity.6. Upstream sanity check platforms - Used by kernel, filesystem, or driver developers. - Detects hidden distro assumptions. - Close-to-upstream environment.7. Small, expert-only operations teams - One or two maintainers. - Zero turnover. - Deep Unix literacy. - Minimal abstraction preferred.8. Pedagogical use - Teaching how Linux actually works. - Forces understanding of init, runlevels, dependencies, and builds. - Reveals what modern distros abstract away.
