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Eric Hameleers announces
[May 18,] on the final day of my short holiday (of sorts), I prepped and released version 1.0.0 of my liveslak project. It is stable and the bugs that were reported (plus some more) have been taken care of.
The "1.0.0" marker is not the end of its development, of course. It means that I consider the project production-ready. It will be used to create Live Editions of Slackware 14.2 (64bit and 32bit) when that is released. There's still some more ideas for liveslak that I want to implement and those will become available as 1.x releases.
For demonstration purposes, I have generated a new set of ISO images using liveslak version 1.0.0. There are ISO images for a full Slackware (64bit and 32bit versions), 64bit Plasma5 and MATE variants, and the 700MB small XFCE variant (also 64bit). They are based on Slackware-current dated "Thu May 12 01:50:21 UTC 2016".
[...] I will re-write [the original blog post] into a landing page for anyone who is interested in a Live Edition of Slackware. [...] All previous articles about the liveslak project aka Slackware Live Edition are accessible through this shortcut link, by the way [links to changelogs].
(Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday May 22 2016, @03:19PM
There are distros with more installs but they cater to users other than the community, so most of their users are non-contributing. I suspect Slackware has the largest community of any distro. Or else number 2 behind gentoo.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 22 2016, @03:45PM
Wow. What a crock of shit. Get off your elitist high horse. The "community" hardly contributes at all to desktop Linux. Everything worthwhile comes out of Durham, NC or Mountain View, CA. While you are shitting all over the other distributions for being user-centric, Red Hat and Google are keeping Linux relevant for your hardware. If it were up to the "community" Linux would look a lot like Netbsd.
Go fuck yourself. Better yet, go hang out at the Arch Linux forums where there are like-minded elitists who think that putting their i3 config on GitHub is contributing to the "community." Get over yourself. Nobody thinks you are cool because you use Slackware.
Nice use of a mono space font by the way, that's how we really know you are an elite coder who can use a console.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday May 22 2016, @04:05PM
Why would I want such a thing?
"Everything worthwhile comes out of Durham, NC or Mountain View, CA."
Lots of obnoxious crap I neither want nor need does not equate to 'everything worthwhile'.
I can see why you posted that anonymously.
"Go fuck yourself."
Right back at you, cancer.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2016, @08:39AM
Google is contributing stuff for what has become a windows-like android echosystem, RH is supporting hardware but also layering opaque things like dbus and systemd in an effort to make linux systems more difficult to maintain, and monospace is fine. Also, your overreaction is not good trolley style.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by CRCulver on Sunday May 22 2016, @03:53PM
(Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday May 22 2016, @04:07PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday May 22 2016, @06:21PM
Ah yes, the wonderful No True Scotsman community. It's great if you can get in, but nobody ever qualifies.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 22 2016, @07:25PM
But, but, but - I'm part of the "Not a True Scotsman" community. Really, I am. There's not a single drop of Scottish blood in my veins!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Sunday May 22 2016, @09:15PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday May 22 2016, @11:21PM
But it is a fallacy to selectively define "community" in a specific way in an attempt to deliberately limit who can be considered part of a "community" in order to claim you're still right in the face of evidence to the contrary, which is precisely what you did.
You: argued that slackware has the largest contributing community
CRCulver: suggested Debian is likely a larger contributing community due to bug reporting users, which is a valid form of contribution.
You: changed the definition of what a "contributing" user is to selectively remove a specific subset of contributing users to maintain your original argument.
When you said that, you effectively claimed "but those aren't REAL contributing members!", e.g. No True Scotsman, or maybe "moving the goalposts" would be a better one, though I went with No True Scotsman because it made a better joke.
As for your bullshit about "some are about communities and some are about business", that wasn't even part of the discussion until you just used it as a deflection attempt.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday May 23 2016, @12:14AM
That's absurd. I report tons of bugs every day without that making me a part of a 'community.'
It's not a deflection so much as an attempt to get back on topic but it's obvious no one else wants that.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?