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Slackware 12.1 released
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The latest version of Slackware - 12.1 - has been released. The official announcement can be read here: http://www.slackware.com/announce/12.1.php
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Happy times to see Slackware released at the same time as OpenBSD.
I still gotta search the Linux distro for me. I think I'll give Dracolinux a spin as it's base is same as Slackware's but it's configured to use pkgsrc for additional packages. The one thing that bothers me in Slackware is lack of the setting it up manually. I like the tools to fetch my packages |
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Been a busy week around here getting OpenBSD and Slackware upgraded on all the machines. I got my 4.3 cd's a few days before Slackware was released, so I didn't have to do them both at the same time.
Now just to sit back and enjoy them |
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I'd rather take Fedora or Ubuntu seeing as to the fact that both these distributions are backed by well known venders and i can get commercial support for them.
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Can one consider Google as "commercial support" for FreeBSD? lol... Google is a sysadmin's best friend PS - Good to see Slack still chugging along. I'm far removed from my "Ohh lookie, Linux!" days, but back in the day Slack was a favorite of mine (still couldn't fall out of love with Debian either, but that's another story all together)
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http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid Thanks but no thanks. $250 yearly fee for desktop support. Most of the ubuntu troubles can be googled and solved within a couple of minutes, and it doesnt cost you a penny
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I am only referring to the fact that both Fedora (Redhat) and Ubuntu Conical are founded by well known commercial promoters of open source. In the case of Fedora especially sense the RedHat developers have sparked their own little subset of distributions, and not to mention the fact that ninety percent of the fortune five hundred companies that use Linux on their servers prefer Red Hat.
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My educated guess would be they started with Linux and if they wanna switch to BSD, its time comsuming, costly and huge load of work, or simply BSD is not good for cluster?
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If it ain't broke... well you know.
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anyway, they have some of the smartest CS/IT guys so you can bet they know what they are doing. |
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They also run their own web server application, gws, short for Google Web Server
They probably prefer to keep the distro name low profile but by any change do you guys know its name? Google is a damn good case study and Im always curious about the technology they implement
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I don't know that they are running any particular "distro". They may have at one time, but the way it is now everything is extremely custom. I, of course, can not say how I know this
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I'll need to download it and give it a test some time :-)
Slackware is one of my favorite GNU/Linux distros and one of the few I respect. But unfortunaley its last couple major version #'s didn't like my current hardware, and every thing else is too full of BSD ;-) The only machine I have that has room for a Linxu distro, is pissed on by most distros... Only Knoppix, Ubuntu, and FreeBSD (since 6.0-Release) have actually liked that machine.
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I started with Slackware 8 then used 8.1 then 9, and then 9.1 and I found no change in any of them except for new packages and expanding on 2 cds, and a few new startup scripts to detect hardware and load modules.
Is it same or any changes ? |
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