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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2016, @06:03AM
8 gig? You see no problem with that? You see nothing wrong with 8 GIG of attack surface for an OS that should be 50-200 meg at most? Sure I can pick a-X and just sit right back while it installs all sorts of things I will never use and spins up services I dont need.
Slackware does not have, nor has it ever had, a package manager.
I can tell *YOU* have never used slackware in a serious way. I have been using it since the mid 90s. It has a *very* simplistic package/install manager. Basically tgz files with an extra catalog file. Thats it. The dependency manager stinks. The upgrade manager stinks. The only thing I like about it is that it is 'simple'. Its init system is 'ok' but very simplistic. It is nice if you want to do something fancy but that is rarely needed these days. The couple of times I have seen someone attempt to fix it the community flipped out on the poor soul who did it. It became clear in the early 2000s it was *never* going to be resolved.
On the flip side you have things like apt which seem to drag in the kitchen sink with the smallest app. No one sees a problem with that? I either get 'compile and hope it works' all the way to 'here is a half gig of libraries and an app'. Oh it 'works'. But why not do better?
Maybe upgrade has gotten better over the years. I however got tired of 'just reinstall the whole thing' to get an upgrade to work correctly with slack. I gave up around 2005.
Now dont get me wrong. Slack is amazing. But it has some serious issues. Many distros do. My biggest complaint is security patches being ignored on many of the distros. The only ones making a half an attempt at it are the rolling distros. Yet then you end up with bleeding edge 'wopsie sorry your system is fucked again' all the time.
Everyone keeps saying 'oh this year'. Linux's year was *YEARS* ago. Its called android. The desktop belongs to MS and Apple. It took a semi locked down distro from google for linux to succeed. It is why docker is killing it in the server market. Small distro with plugins of exactly what people want instead of heavy servers behind massive VM infrastructures. Yet no one seems to think an end user would like that too and just labels them 'troll'.