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Linux reviews notes that
The popular Linux Mint operating system has decided to purge the snap package manager from its repositories and forbid installation of it. The motivation for this drastic move is that the upstream Ubuntu Linux distribution Linux Mint is based on will stealthily install snapd and use that to install Chromium from the Canonical-controlled SnapCraft instead of installing a regular Chromium package like most users expect.
The Linux Mint blog has this to say about Ubuntu's use of snap to use their chromium package to subvert apt:
You've as much empowerment with this as if you were using proprietary software, i.e. none. This is in effect similar to a commercial proprietary solution, but with two major differences: It runs as root, and it installs itself without asking you.
Is Ubuntu turning evil?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @09:47PM (4 children)
Slackware is always out of date. So "real men" are pretty much universally rootkitted.
People who know, use Void.
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Thursday July 09 2020, @10:59PM (3 children)
Slackware current is actively maintained and comes with kernel 5.4.50. Its pretty much a rolling release at this point.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday July 09 2020, @11:55PM (2 children)
IIUC, though, Slackware doesn't have a package manager, so you don't get told when something needs to be updated. OTOH, I've never used it, so I could easily be wrong.
A package manager sure isn't a cure for things on it's own, as shown by the current article, but there are lots of reasons why it's a good idea.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @12:18AM
There's things like slackpkg that do a good job of checking the Slackware mirrors for new files and upgrading to them. In fact, modern Slackware is surprisingly easy to get up and running, no Ubuntu or Mint, but weirdly not far off, so long as you're okay with using the terminal. Was amazed when I installed 14.2 and got X running in Xinerama without having to tweak a single config file (shows good work from the whole Linux community)
The slackware-current branch has made a few big changes from the 14.2 release, PAM support being the prime example. Looking forward to (what I assume will be) 15.0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @01:39AM
Slackware DOES have a package manager... It WILL tell you what updates are available.
There are also multiple 3rd party Slackware package managers.