Slackware 13.0 Released With 64-bit Support

[deanjo]

If you are in the others category you may wish to reconsider your realness.

If your NOT in the other category you may want to consider seeking help for masochism.

[DeepDayze]

If your NOT in the other category you may want to consider seeking help for masochism.

I have been a Slackware user since 1994 and it was quite a ride for me, until I discovered debian. Not knocking slack, but it is a good distro if you want full control over what is on your machine withou anything getting in the way

[Apopas]

Not sure if you can consider slackware a "big distribution" nowdays. It's more of a "niche distribution" for the die hards.

Heh distrowatch shows Slack after the new relese to the third position in the scale. I'm sure it's the most popular die hard distro.

[deanjo]

Heh distrowatch shows Slack after the new relese to the third position in the scale. I'm sure it's the most popular die hard distro.

True however that is over a small amount of period and is more of a spike which is common for all distro's when a new release is released. Setting the time period to a year for example shows drastically different results.

[rvdboom]

Define "no dependencies". Surely you can't have packages without dependencies unless you want runtime failures.

Seemed obvious to me: automatic handling of dependencies and missing ones.
Otherwise the dependency is not in the "package" but in the installed software. But I'm nickpicking here. :-)

[Apopas]

True however that is over a small amount of period and is more of a spike which is common for all distro's when a new release is released. Setting the time period to a year for example shows drastically different results.

Yeah I don't assume Slack is more popular than Ubuntu or OpenSUSE, but the jumb in the third position is a real deed that neither Arch or Sabayon achieved after their last releases. Though I'd prefer Sabayon to be in that position

[squirrl]

I've used _________ for __ years.
I like _________ because it's stable, fast, and the developers really
know what a user needs. I booted __________ up and just as I expected I was right at home in the _________ environment.

www.__________.(com|org|net) has all the information a user needs.

The other distributions __________, ___________, and ____________ can't even come close to the ease of use _________ gives me.

[BhaKi]

Slackware should be benchmarked with the others "big distributions"

It would win them all hands down. Try the following command on any distro:

zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i "debug"

In case of openSUSE, Fedora and Ubuntu, you'll be surprised at the number of kernel debug options turned on.

Slackware, OTOH, is clean.

[marco71]

Slackware should be benchmarked with the others "big distributions"

yeah, and all *buntu fans here will be disappointed :P

[Apopas]

yeah, and all *buntu fans here will be disappointed :P

Till you all see a Gentoo benchmark...