Slackware: I'm Not Dead Yet! 252
New submitter xclr8r writes "The longtime tinkering and learning distro of Linux Slackware found itself at the center of rumors and speculation when its website was down for a few days. Caitlyn Martin, developer of Linux Yarok, voiced concerns in DistroWatch and declared that she would be basing the new project off a distro with a more secure future. Meanwhile contributors continued to plug along with additions to the change log. Eventually Eric Hameleers expanded on his initial communication of 'old hardware — lack of funds' to a more thorough explanation quoted in the article. Have your pop up blocker ready."
not until (Score:5, Funny)
-I'm just sayin'
It hurt bad when Stampede Linux was no more. (Score:5, Funny)
It can hurt pretty badly when your favorite Linux distribution comes to an end. I've lived through this horrid experience once before, with Stampede Linux. We were as close as a man and Linux could get. I ran it on all of my PCs. Then one day it was no more, and I was destroyed. For several months, I had no purpose in life. But eventually the pain does go away, and I found other Linux distributions. I'm using Debian now, and while it isn't as glorious as Stampede Linux was, at least it's still Linux.
Re:Correction (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It hurt bad when Stampede Linux was no more. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:not until (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot: Yes he is.
Slackware: I'm not.
Distrowatch: He isn't.
Slashdot: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
Slackware: I'm getting better.
Slashdot: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Distrowatch: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
Slackware: I don't want to go on the cart.
Slashdot: Oh, don't be such a baby.
Distrowatch: I can't take him.
Slackware: I feel fine.
Slashdot: Oh, do me a favor.
slashdotting slackware.com is like (Score:5, Funny)
I invoke the *Not Dead Yet* clause all the time (Score:2, Funny)
but I use it for leering at much younger women
(sometimes I even flirt)
Still end up with a bent nose sometimes tho
and every once and awhile I get that moment where you yell *Wee-Haa There's a naked woman in my bed*
Re:We're not dead, but an old server is. (Score:4, Funny)
Yo man, are you the deadhead I'm thinking you're supposed to be?
My name is August West.
Re:We're not dead, but an old server is. (Score:2, Funny)
With a Slashdot ID that low it might really be Adam West!
Re:I invoke the *Not Dead Yet* clause all the time (Score:5, Funny)
slipping ruffies to people is a crime you know.
Re:Debian (Score:2, Funny)
What does debian's survivability have anything to do with slackware's webserver going down
Everything if Slackware's webserver is running Debian.
Re:We're not dead, but an old server is. (Score:4, Funny)
With a Slashdot ID that low it might really be Adam West!
Don't believe him; he's a liar.
Re:Correction (Score:5, Funny)
there just around ~25 letters in the alphabet?
You must be a physicist.
Re:What happened to Patty boy? (Score:2, Funny)
He's fine now and has been for a while. He got sick because of poor oral hygiene.
That must have been one nasty set of chompers. I've known people who brushed.. maybe monthly, but it was nowhere near enough to actually get them sick.
Re:Debian (Score:5, Funny)
Debian is especially good if you are a historian and want to know what open source computing was like five years ago...
Re:We're not dead, but an old server is. (Score:3, Funny)
Because cloud is a meaningless buzzword which means "computer on the internet".
Re:What happened to Patty boy? (Score:2, Funny)
I never brush. No biggie. It only starts bleeding if I do.
Once I went without showering for 3 months. I think the skin has odor control built in. People who shower often, like just about every normal person, start smelling bad after a day or three without a shower, but just hang in there and don't cave for these "shower" modernities.
Re:what the hell is yarok? (Score:5, Funny)
what the hell is shampoo?
It's an emacs command: ESC-x shampoo (ESC-2 ESC-x shampoo to lather, rinse and repeat.)
Oh geez ... I was joking. Now I find out that it actually is an emacs command. Dammit, emacs. [xkcd.com]
Re:not until (Score:5, Funny)
I still have my Walnut Creek CD's from Slackware 3.6
Oh. So just those disks.
the only other software I kept from that period is Win 3.11
Of course.
, OS/2,
And that.
and a few DOS versions.
So basically you still have every bit of software you've ever owned.
Re:not until (Score:5, Funny)
I'm running Ubuntu Norwegian Blue. To be honest, the uptimes aren't great.
Re:not until (Score:4, Funny)
Perhaps, but the plumage must be lovely :-)