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."
Debian (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:It hurt bad when Stampede Linux was no more. (Score:4, Interesting)
Slackware has at least has the history to have been continually in existence since '93, almost since the beginning of Linux itself. Mind you, I and a whole bunch of other people jumped ship over the Libc5 debacle and I ended up on Debian where I've remained since. I would be saddened to see Slackware go away, but it wouldn't lead to a loss of purpose in my life.
You wouldn't happen to be Matt Wood, would you?
Re:Debian (Score:3, Interesting)
There must be some level of agreement given that the Project Lead (Stefano Zachiroli) was just re-elected to his third term in a row.
Debian forever!
Re:not until (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:We're not dead, but an old server is. (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:What happened to Patty boy? (Score:2, Interesting)
Holy hell.
Slackware Linux, 13.37 CDROM set $ 49.95
Re:We're not dead, but an old server is. (Score:3, Interesting)
Oh, and Pat, your /. UID is old enough to have used images.slashdot.org which was a Pent 90 box running slackware that I setup in Seattle at Wolfe.net when /. saturated their T1. Slackware was a big part of how /. got started.