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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday May 22 2016, @01:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the ready-for-prime-time dept.

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].


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by CRCulver on Sunday May 22 2016, @03:53PM

    by CRCulver (4390) on Sunday May 22 2016, @03:53PM (#349589) Homepage
    I suspect that a larger percentage of Debian users are contributing to their distro's development process than Slackware users. Debian makes its bug-reporting system very visible to users, while on Slackware bugs have to be reported in a more convoluted way that not everyone knows about. Debian can also draw on many of the devs behind the myriad Debian-based distros for reporting bugs.
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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday May 22 2016, @04:07PM

    by Arik (4543) on Sunday May 22 2016, @04:07PM (#349595) Journal
    That may actually be true in terms of bug reporting, but it's still quite debatable whether posting a bug report which may or may not be helpful is really enough to bring one inside the community.
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    • (Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday May 22 2016, @06:21PM

      by Marand (1081) on Sunday May 22 2016, @06:21PM (#349628) Journal

      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

        by Runaway1956 (2926) on Sunday May 22 2016, @07:25PM (#349650) Homepage Journal

        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!

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      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Sunday May 22 2016, @09:15PM

        by Arik (4543) on Sunday May 22 2016, @09:15PM (#349685) Journal
        It's no fallacy to point out that some OSes are about communities and some are about business.
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        If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
        • (Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday May 22 2016, @11:21PM

          by Marand (1081) on Sunday May 22 2016, @11:21PM (#349718) Journal

          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

            by Arik (4543) on Monday May 23 2016, @12:14AM (#349732) Journal
            Except that I never defined a community by bug reporting, and neither did anyone else.

            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.

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            If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?