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Slackware 15.0 Takes Another Step Closer To Release
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Originally posted by cbxbiker61 View PostI cut my teeth on early versions of Slackware, which is one of the best distros for teaching you the nuts and bolts of a Linux distro. About 10 years ago, maybe longer I grew tired of slow pace of development and started building my own distro. My distro still has some of the "features" of Slackware such as text grep-able/viewable package lists in /var/log/packages which is one of the simplest most effective ways of figuring out which packages have what. I installed Slackware from floppy a couple of time, but as soon as I could get Slackware from Walnut Creek the install process got a whole lot easier.
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Originally posted by crash View Post
What is the name of your distro?
BTW, on the www.xilka.com site I maintain current kernels for a variety of SBCs, most notably the Raspberry Pis and RockPro64s, but going back to the SheevaPlug and CuBox. Quite often the SBCs don't get much love with mainline kernels, so I just help by putting out newer kernels.Last edited by cbxbiker61; 18 November 2021, 11:23 PM.
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Originally posted by kpedersen View PostSlackware was indeed my first Linux. One thing I always found a bit weird coming from other operating systems (of the time) was that there was no base install. There was no minimal system in which to build from. You either had to go with the recommended "install everything" which I didn't like (or have room for) or during install, piece by piece install the packages you might need.
That said, I never minded the lack of dependency management (actually I quite liked that because it worked well offline) but the lack of a "base" felt a bit messy to me.
Actually I ran a lot of DOS programs under Linux come to think of it, and for GUI apps I was using OS/2 Warp when I had no other choice... and Windows apps under OS/2. Oh and on my Amiga, where I'd been doing most of my development work up 'til that point with AmigaE and Lattice C. To this day no compiler remotely touches the compilation speed of AmigaE. Not even Bellard's TCC.
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