Subj : Re: Hello Slackers!
To   : Dan Clough
From : Richard Falken
Date : Mon May 19 2025 14:38:06

  Re: Re: Hello Slackers!
  By: Dan Clough to Andrew Leary on Mon May 19 2025 08:34 am

 > And unfortunately that's about all we CAN do.  Getting any actual "news"
 > is just not gonna happen.  I've always thought Patrick could/should do
 > better with "marketing" his product, but I guess he doesn't care much
 > about that side of things.  As I said in a post yesterday, my BBS is
 > running on -current at the moment, as it's newer hardware and X will not
 > run on it with 15.0.  Kernel support for the video hardware, I'm pretty

Heh, Patrick's comunity management is abysmal. Thankfully, Slackers pick Slackware for other reasons than Patrick's PR skills.

In practical terms you can use Slackware -release for servers and Slackware -current for workstations and 95% of the times you will be fine. I think the current release model is built on this asumption. It is lame because it means Slackware is de facto a rolling distribution when used for desktops, but at least -current is well maintained.

Really, reason #1 why I moved from Slackware into OpenBSD is that OpenBSD has a clear release model and technical changes and goals are discussed in the open. Since it is not prone to be infected by the new shiny-thing of the day the Linux world generates it means it won't have weird stuff inserted into its ecosystem from one day to the next.

IO and hardware support suck, though.

 >
 > Somebody tell Patrick we're getting impatient...  ;-)

He knows.


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