On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 03:06:50AM -0800, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> http://www.muktware.com/articles/3544/help-save-slackware
> Their main site seems to be down, but their store is up.
>
> http://store.slackware.com/cgi-bin/store
>
> Jim G
Hi Jim,
Neither the article you reference nor your title are true, and here's why...
"Slackware" being the "they're" you (and Neil Richards) reference, is only
Patrick Volkerding. And Pat is *not* asking for help.
Please read this post by Eric Hameleers in the thread on LinuxQuestions.org
which Richards references in his article:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/www-slackware-com-website-down-939712/page4.html#post4654949
Slackware apparently lost a large amount of it's user base when Pat decided to
drop Gnome on March 26, 2005, in preparation for the release of
Slackware-10.2, and some predicted it would die then, but still hasn't.
For those interested in Slackware source or packages, the Oregon State
University Open Source Lab server is a good resource:
http://slackware.osuosl.org/
Just wanting to clear up the FUD which is spreading around the interwubs
concerning two unsubstantiated statements -- the one being that Slackware, aka
Pat Volkerding, is asking for help; the other being that Slackware is dead.
While Slackware certainly has lost a substantial share of the desktop market
due to the direction Linux distros have taken, and Slackware's apparent
decision not to "keep up with the herd" so to speak, there are key people who
maintain Slackware who are fully capable of continuing should Pat stop -- but
that would also be highly doubtful.
For whatever anyone thinks about Slackware, it is still the oldest surviving
Linux distro, and quite easy to install and maintain. The x86_64 port is not
too stale for a stable distro, either.
Eric Hameleers can be trusted in his statements concerning Slackware. And he
personally maintains, at his own cost, cutting edge versions of projects such as
KDE, LibreOffice, and VLC.
Kindest regards,
Bruce Hill
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