[HN Gopher] Slackware Release Announcement
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       Slackware Release Announcement
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2022-02-03 21:31 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.slackware.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.slackware.com)
        
       | periheli0n wrote:
       | Interesting... they just now switched to PAM and Python 3? And
       | the package management tool now supports file locking to prevent
       | installs from clashing?
       | 
       | I knew that Slackware was rather bare-bones, but I didn't expect
       | it to be that bare bones. I knew that SUSE was built on top of
       | Slackware about 25 years ago, which now I understand... If it was
       | that bare bones back then, it must have been rather
       | straightforward to improve on it.
       | 
       | Even more is it impressive that Slackware is still around after
       | such a long time. It inspired one of the oldest desktop-capable
       | Linux distributions, has seen others like Mandrake/Caldera come
       | and go, and is still releasing.
       | 
       | Congrats, honestly! Sometimes it pays off to keep things as
       | simple as possible.
        
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