LOL Sorry, I had to laugh. I started with Slackware back in the 90s, and I finally moved away from it in 2017 or 2018.
Installing it is easy. Where it starts to get headachy is dealing with dependencies when you install something that isn’t a standard package. (I remember, I wanted to install the Ubiquiti Unifi software, and I was just like…“I do not want to deal with this.”) Then, I’d get nervous about updates, “What is this going to break?” And that’s bad from a security point of view.
I understand they do have some dependency management now, so it might be better than it used to be.
I ran it on my desktop, laptop, and my server. The laptop and desktop got switched first, initially to Kubuntu until a few years ago, but now they run Debian. The server was last to be switched from Slackware, and for that I went to Debian. (Debian on the laptop and desktop came later.)
Don’t get me wrong, I loved Slackware, and subscribed to the automatic CD delivery for years. But Debian has just been so much easier to maintain, and more mainstream, so more things are packaged for it. It’s pretty rare that I can’t find a .deb for a piece of software.
I guess I don’t have that problem. Just received ten 256 to 500gb sata ssd of various brands. They were going to recycle due to microsofts stance on windows 11 compatibility. Just reloaded 31 dell 7440/7450 AIO computers with zorin. Local library is going to give them out to kids.
Its not hard to accumulate a few extras right at this moment. There are so many computers being scrapped all you have to do is get involved recycling them for the needy. Those ten SSD are going back out. I’m wiping them with ShredOS right now to go out in computers for kids. We even receive some gen 8 or better intel computers that get replaced with all the older machines. The hard part is convincing companies and institutions to let us have them with memory and storage attached. We do a DOD wipe on them all.
Anybody got a good resource set for getting into slackware or should I just stick with going to freebsd
LOL Sorry, I had to laugh. I started with Slackware back in the 90s, and I finally moved away from it in 2017 or 2018.
Installing it is easy. Where it starts to get headachy is dealing with dependencies when you install something that isn’t a standard package. (I remember, I wanted to install the Ubiquiti Unifi software, and I was just like…“I do not want to deal with this.”) Then, I’d get nervous about updates, “What is this going to break?” And that’s bad from a security point of view.
I understand they do have some dependency management now, so it might be better than it used to be.
I ran it on my desktop, laptop, and my server. The laptop and desktop got switched first, initially to Kubuntu until a few years ago, but now they run Debian. The server was last to be switched from Slackware, and for that I went to Debian. (Debian on the laptop and desktop came later.)
Don’t get me wrong, I loved Slackware, and subscribed to the automatic CD delivery for years. But Debian has just been so much easier to maintain, and more mainstream, so more things are packaged for it. It’s pretty rare that I can’t find a .deb for a piece of software.
Why not both?
I only have so many drives :(
I guess I don’t have that problem. Just received ten 256 to 500gb sata ssd of various brands. They were going to recycle due to microsofts stance on windows 11 compatibility. Just reloaded 31 dell 7440/7450 AIO computers with zorin. Local library is going to give them out to kids.
I fart in your general direction, braggart.
Its not hard to accumulate a few extras right at this moment. There are so many computers being scrapped all you have to do is get involved recycling them for the needy. Those ten SSD are going back out. I’m wiping them with ShredOS right now to go out in computers for kids. We even receive some gen 8 or better intel computers that get replaced with all the older machines. The hard part is convincing companies and institutions to let us have them with memory and storage attached. We do a DOD wipe on them all.