[aklug] Re: Slackware is having financial difficulties, they're asking for help

OK.
I did not realize his dropping of Gnome support had much of an effect as
Slackware never has had much in the way of Gnome support. I was under the
impression this was why the Dropline Gnome effort was started back in 2002.

Jim G
On Apr 19, 2012 5:41 AM, "Bruce Hill" <bruce@happypenguincomputers.com>
wrote:

> 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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