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 It's just an outdated and half-assed Linux distro.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.
>>107531281What's the point of you still being alive?
>>107531444not mineI'm not adopting redhat shiteverything they made just made linux a clusterfucklinux was more usable when it was simple
>>107531444>It's just an outdated and half-assed Linux distro.Outdated perhaps. There hasn't been a release in a very long time. "Alienbob" regularly builds ISOs of the "current" or development/rolling. That should the starting point, not whatever the latest release version is. I wouldn't count on the next release happening ever, but current has updates a few days a week, it's active and up-to-date with upstream.Half-assed? Maybe. If you install Slackware, you're installing the "Linux From Scratch" install of a dude who has been doing it since the early 90s. It comes with ton of scripts to make it all work in a pretty comprehensible way (BSD-ish), a sophisticated-enough installer, a beyond-primitive package utility, and a small portion of the community who stuck with it. It mostly works very well, and I would say that it seems fairly well engineered, maybe only because they've had a lot of time to fix bugs. It never got in the way of me doing anything I wanted, but sometimes it was just way too much fuss. Slackbuilds.org / sbopkg is the counterpart to AUR, pkgsrc, brew. It's braindead and works very reliably.Regrettably I don't have it installed anywhere right now, just don't care enough to spend time dealing with the rough edges of it.
>>107531281use case for up to date packages?
>>107531444>All Linux distros are more or less convergingwhat faggot fantasy is this. over the years every distro I try does 'something different' in their own gay way. i hate it so much.
>>107531456they keep it in plain http mode on purpose retard.
>>107532066>No auto-updatespeople who update their linux every day / week baffle me. i guess some people really hate stability and want to live on the edge.
>>107534072ah yeas, for those nice full screen warningsit's a feature
>>107534896OH NO AN ATTACKER COULD SEE ME VISTIING SLACKWARE.COMHOW TERRIBLY I'M GONNA GET HACKED
>>107534923>i'm gonna be special and force warning on all visitors>http://www.slackware.com/book/>i'm gonna be special and keep dead links for years to Slackware Storewhy bother not being a retard if people are defending your retarded behavior
>>107534976What's retarded about not bloating your website with HTTPS when you don't need it?There's no passwords you transmit to it, the packages are all GPG signed already.There's literally no point in using HTTPS here.
>>107534997>bloating your website with HTTPSHTTPS - bloat? oh, right, I forgot https eats up 2GB or RAM.>literally no point in using HTTPSbecause it's free?because it prevents DNS poisoning? >packages are all GPG signed alreadyfuck it, why bother? just trust him bro, make them also unsigned on purposeI guess target audience of distro and website are boomers getting themselves off using obsolete shit, just because owner said he wrote it using VIM
Slackware is abandonware, literally no reason to use at all. Just do LFS if you don't want to update and just check the mailing list for security updates.
>>107535068>The site is designed to be viewed with at least a 640x480 display, but it also looks good in Lynx.based
>>107535119More like cringe, boomer.
>>107534997*injects ads into your tcp stream*nothing personnel kid
>>107537286/r/thathappened
>>107531456based
>>107531281Stability, setting up a system for long-term usage>>107531434It makes sense if you've been using it for 20, 25, 30 yeears and know which packages you want to install from the outset.
>>107531456usecase?Unironically, why would you need SSL for a website that doesn't handle any sensitive data? All the important shit is GPG signed anyway which is way better than whatever fake sense of security TLS provides>>107535068>because it's free?It's not lmao. What do you think will happen when glowies stop funding Let's encrypt and won't be able to pay to """"""""""""""""be trusted"""""""""""""""". TLS in its current form is just as much of a cancer as the Trusted Computing nonsense Microsoft tries to shove down our throats.>because it prevents DNS poisoning? And? Not like anyone with half a braincell can't check if anything given by the website is actually legit. The GPG signature is all that matters, and no need for glowies to "certify" (you) as (you).
>>107537764Pat is the hero we need
>>107537764Might give slackware a try now, what a chad
>>107531281Legacy stuff, i guess?
>>107531281I never used it but as I remember, you need to MANUALLY compile and build packages yourself as well as MANUALLY keeping track of every single dependencies, right? What a mess...
>>107540254It's older than debian man
