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Old 07-24-2020, 12:57 PM   #76
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I am disappointed about this thread. Given its title, I came here hoping to read some insider rumors about when Slackware 15.0 is going to be released. But all I got to read here were I.G.O.R's posts. Again.
There cannot be any rumors besides current ChangeLog. Just look at it and you won't see any sign of upcoming release.
 
Old 07-24-2020, 01:04 PM   #77
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@FlichX i'm mildly disappointed too - with a title like that i expected at least a pic of Gene Wilder or Marty Feldman with Eyes Rolling.

I can't give you a rumor but Mr V was on twitter a few days ago; due to 16 July 27 years ago. Mr V, i thought was in a very upbeat mood giving a "like" to just about all tweets to him even quite banal ones (mine) . In question
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Slackware 15?
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There's a light at the end of the tunnel.
Maybe things are coming together.

I'm on not so current, current 5.4.12 have no problems what so ever not due to my technical prowess but more to my "gino d'acampo" philosophy and approach ; totally satisfied with slackware. Had a look at someones Windows 10 how anybody navigates around that OS is a mystery.
 
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Old 07-24-2020, 01:05 PM   #78
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The forum is called LinuxQuestions not LinuxGeneralizations. I don't think onebuck should be hazed for creating one positive thread out of many negative threads. He rarely says anything. The complaints probably have been heard from the one person that makes the decisions so why continue them? The only one in the community privy to his thoughts is himself as far as I can tell. He is the BDFL of Slackware. I see too much emotional involvement. It is easy to get caught up in a cycle of feeding on emotional negativity. It is lethal to healthy communities on the internet from my experience.

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Old 07-24-2020, 01:12 PM   #79
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IGOR and Ivandi : you've made your point ad nauseam. All that remains for the two of you is to go off and put that enviable expertise you have to good use, by creating the better Slackware you keep hinting at. The Slackware without bugs, the Slackware so much better than this one you never stop whining about.

So what's stopping you?

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Old 07-24-2020, 01:21 PM   #80
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True, unfortunately. Just look at that thread.

The bug has been fixed in current, but not in stable. I suppose it wasn't considered a bug because of the full install nonsense. The thread is also quite revealing about how a constructive bug report has been treated by the developers and by the community.


Cheers
I have just read that thread. It's funny, but disappointing at the same time.
 
Old 07-24-2020, 01:36 PM   #81
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I have been steering clear of the other thread about all this - but given that this topic just won't go away, here are my -- I have to conclude that the detractors of Slackware (not naming names), but it seems to me that they seem to have some sort of hidden masochism about Slackware in the first place, at least that is my interpretation. Since I get the impression that Slackware does not satisfy their needs, and it seems that Slackware is somehow below par; then obviously the logical conclusion is to just leave already and use a different distro; but again we are not dealing with pure logic here but rather emotion; hence why also the lack of just moving on to a different distro that would suit their needs.


Given that, I would say maybe this is now Schrodinger's Slackware because of all the rhetoric being thrown around, me personally though I again do not see how it is "dead" in any way. Sure perhaps I have also voiced my thoughts on the delay of Plasma5 and XFCE4.14; but that is just a minor detail. As I also pointed out in another thread and this is still my theory, since the inclusion of PAM, that is seems to be the priority right now in 'fine tuning' it, since it has now been merged into the main tree of Slackware. If indeed that is what is causing the delay, I honestly do not really have a problem with that. I sure would love to offer my help perhaps in speeding that up, but time and actually any real knowledge of what goes into distro development prevents me from that. I just mess with --Current in a VM for the fun of it.

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Old 07-24-2020, 01:51 PM   #82
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Can you please stop derailing threads with your trolling? Let the people in the thread have their discussion and do not reply unless you have something constructive to say.
I said my piece in the other thread. I have not yet checked it but it seems to have gotten locked.

But, as usual, I was 100% right.

The era of people now having to "Hope" that the traitor, the scum they let inside behaves has long begun. Wheras my valiant hyperloathing of IGOR and energy vampires like him would create a consecrated space where their unlife cannot thrive, all without having to be a moderator, or whatever. Simply by aura alone.

The harm never comes from people full of righteous, valiant and honest hatred toward antagonists, but always from peacemakers, after all, that's what we all fear, right?
Both on the internet and real life.

Can't say nothing because "that would create bad effects" a "bad reality", "bad thing will happen if you stick out your head and protest and deride the evil that comes to us".

But who would induce any bad effects? Who would?
Who kicks down doors? Who starts wars? Who creates bad effects?

The local town militia staring down an invader? Or the entire chain of command of peacekeepers who put an long poisoned and perverted idea of 'law' and 'integrity' over actual assessment of harm or not?

It is the peacekeepers who create actual harmful effects in that case. They are the ones that ban your account, they're the ones that jail you, etc.
I wouldn't ban IGORs account, Ican't even do that. I don't have the administrative rights! But I, and everyone else here could adopt the stance of valiant, unironic hyperhostility.

Which has no drawback at all, there is no downside to it, UNTIL the lawmakers step in because 'it goes both ways and we must treat people equally', which is not true, and embracing the fact that it is not true is also not harmful, but I will get on that in a moment.

The drawbacks, the shuffling of feet and tough decisions about having to have 'integrity' comes from lawmakers and peacekeepers who want to follow it, otherwise my valiant rebuking of IGOR and his kind would have no ill effect.
But since things are all messed up, this causes ME! A 100% by default ally of Slackware and its community, to become an antagonist who must be deal with because otherwise 'the sanctity, the integrity of the 'law'" is compromised.

This is 100% a peacekeeper and lawmaker problem, not mine, because, again. Pertaining to Slackware, there would be ZERO drawbacks to pure and unceasing outspoken hatred of IGOR and a complete denial of any and all cooperation with him.

"But what if Slackware (or any community) becomes an echo chamber?"
That too is a warped pretense, because not all 'echo chambers' are created equally.

Our 'echo chamber' is a proven system that works 100%, if we were to remain an echo chamber like we were before IGOR then we could continue pretty much eternally.
Even under the heavy restraints our encapsulation would entail, it would still work. Limitations can be overcome and worked with in a closed system by the people living therein.
Go ask the Follin Brothers about limitations on sound chips, for example. They'll blow your ears away with 4 channels or less. )

But! Malignant groups, inverted, perverted and insane groups, like IGOR, they would not be a self perpetuating 'echo chamber'.

Parasites, even if they come in enclosed groups can only plot amongst themselves the best way to infect others, lest they die out. So a parasitical echo chamber, an echo chamber of the sick and twisted, cannot be compared to an 'echo chamber' that is a functioning system. So this worry about echo chambers is meaningless.

If a closed system is attractive enough for any parasite to jab its proboscis into it, then any lack of this parasite, will never have any negative effects.

Despite wishing for the death of IGOR and co, I do not condone violence against him, I merely hope he tries to become a record holder in "most krokodil injected in one hour" and other such things.
But!

If, before any of us meeting IGOR, before he could have reached us, if before any of us knowing him, he became immortal, fell into a ravine with his eyes impaled on sharp rocks while being half submerged in a naturally occuring acid pool, forever screaming in utter anguish and unable to taste the relief of death, then we would be none the wiser.

Our 'echo chamber' system, our well oiled machine would still have ran perfectly. We would have woken up like any other day, none the wiser.

That is because we never needed IGOR, even if he some day wisens up, we have proven that we have the people who behave, who aren't asshats (myself included, if any of you disagree, again, you can and WILL only feel the sting of my truth by the reality that follows, I need to do nothing else for that. IGOR and his kind will)
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So why risk an IGOR? Because "don't burn bridges? You might need help at some point?"

Well, that too is kind of a bum deal, isn't it?

A reallife example, the sentinelese tribe which I have come to adore and love muchly.
They are hyperxenophobic ultrafascists, utterly full of hatred toward others whom they attack pretty much always on first sight.
They live in the stone age, basically (well okay, a hint of iron age now), have no amenities other than the ones the land and their toil provides, but they are living it out okay.

But let's say one day their island experiences some sort of calamity, and they suddenly go. Okay, we need help, let's go out and find people who help!

First reaction might be "Yeah no, you were assholes to us every time we sent someone over you shot them." and that's fair, but also:
They never did any invasions to my knowledge, and,...here is the important part:

If the only way to get help for a ONE TIME calamity is to prefix it with an overall weakness beforehand by compromising immune systems, by letting in poisons and traitors, then that's a bum deal if you ask me.

And reallife shows that true calamities don't happen as often as the eternal grind of subterfuge, treason, snake oils, lies, etc harms the overall health of everything.

So, yeah, there are zero bad effects when it comes to hostility, especially since my stance is purposefully hyper extreme for brevity (and my posts are usually very long anyway), if I were more subtle then I would have to cover more bases.

There are of course considerations like "allies" but they should always be secondary, the important thing is, there are no bad effects to be had, until lawmakers step in who now work in the hijacked and compromised notion of "gotta be fair", when that means nothing, criminals aren't fair, protagonists aren't fair. (I'm not fair either, I'm merely right. )

And the solution to actual reallife problems is getting that through. It is the peacemakers that must be reconciled, it's the lawmakers that must be reconciled, only then can we break out of this circle of destruction.

Yes, there will be 'casualties' on the entire spectrum of casuality (including IGOR not being able to troll), but, in this day and age where so many actually evil people cite "evolution" as a point to destroy language, to taint law and culture, I would like to remind those and everyone else that the biggest strength of this virtuous evolution is:
The failures must die out.

But in our tainted system, the crippled, degenerated words immediately become added to dictionaries now, the exploiters, the scum, the sheming skulking bastards of the world are included lickety snap because "human rights, law" etc, which are good things, but they should be below biology.
A functional system needs no needless foreign meddling.
Disagree? Why, then chug some immunosuppressants and jump into a sewage tank. See how that goes.

I speak only truths, the finer details I gloss over and would theoretically weaken my position are irrelevant in the actual good my stance would do, disagreement with me is swiftly (or in some cases over a long time, and slowly, but surely) delivered by reality.
I don't have to be a peacekeeper for this promise to hold, because, again, truth.

But the peacekeepers, again, must sweat now, must work in the tainted context of law. Poor moderators. Poor reallife people.
Will the chain that goes from simple joe sixpack all the way to the leaders of other nations ever be cleansed? "yeah I agree with you and I'm a peacekeeper locally, but the guys over there don't agree"

It must be fixed.
I am not the problem, what I say is true, valiant, and highly curative with very few drawbacks.
The status quo is, the moment you enter or maintain it: "Now I have to pray that things still work out, thankfully I'll be dead eventually then I won't have to deal with it."

100% true and demonstrable in the world.
Can we have world peace at one point by embracing some degree of valiant hostility? I sure hope so.

Never suffer the parasite to live, and really, the biggest problems in our lives are in our heads, thats where the pity for IGOR and co is generated, and that's where the biggest venue of attack is.

IT's not Mongols at the gate, it's not Ottomans at the outset. It's ideas and thoughts.
Very fortunate, since all it takes for a thought to change, is the thought.

When I say parasite, I mean parasite, you don't have to physically harm them.
In fact, my solution is almost 100% based on inaction. (Of course hostility is part of it too)

If they were not parasites then they would survive even without action on our part, without feeding, without coddling, without aid.
But they can't, can they.
QED.
Not a single bullet needed.

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Old 07-24-2020, 02:13 PM   #83
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About time to close this one for the same reasons as the previous one, me think.
 
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Old 07-24-2020, 02:14 PM   #84
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True, unfortunately. Just look at that thread.

The bug has been fixed in current, but not in stable. I suppose it wasn't considered a bug because of the full install nonsense. The thread is also quite revealing about how a constructive bug report has been treated by the developers and by the community.


Cheers
Pat doesn't make adjustments to previously released stable releases, only patches to packages. This is why 14.2 doesn't support NVMe through the installer or eliloconfig.

But if I were you, I'd be embarrassed to show that thread as an example. Eric explained why it slipped through and stated a patch was welcome. You provided one . Two weeks after the patch came out, rather than posting a simple reminder that the patch was available, you attacked Pat and Eric talking about "getting this brain damage repaired". Even after that, Pat still incorporated your fix. Sometimes things slip through the cracks and a simple reminder would be enough, but no, you gotta go with "getting this brain damage repaired".

This is not some "critical bug". It is a minor inconvenience with the installer taking a bit more time and bandwidth as it downloads packages it then erases. Certainly not worthy of a "critical bug", right?

Compare that with the 407 (* Security fix *) updates in -current and the 596 in 14.2 that are more "critical" than downloading some extra files using an online installer.

I have a lot of respect for your knowledge and I imagine I've increased my knowledge about Slackware and Linux as I've seen your posts over the years. However, your attitude towards others is appalling. Even if I was completely anonymous online and using an account that can't be tied to my real persona, I would be unable to treat people with such contempt.
 
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Old 07-24-2020, 04:09 PM   #85
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Pat doesn't make adjustments to previously released stable releases, only patches to packages. This is why 14.2 doesn't support NVMe through the installer or eliloconfig.

But if I were you, I'd be embarrassed to show that thread as an example. Eric explained why it slipped through and stated a patch was welcome. You provided one . Two weeks after the patch came out, rather than posting a simple reminder that the patch was available, you attacked Pat and Eric talking about "getting this brain damage repaired". Even after that, Pat still incorporated your fix. Sometimes things slip through the cracks and a simple reminder would be enough, but no, you gotta go with "getting this brain damage repaired".

This is not some "critical bug". It is a minor inconvenience with the installer taking a bit more time and bandwidth as it downloads packages it then erases. Certainly not worthy of a "critical bug", right?

Compare that with the 407 (* Security fix *) updates in -current and the 596 in 14.2 that are more "critical" than downloading some extra files using an online installer.

I have a lot of respect for your knowledge and I imagine I've increased my knowledge about Slackware and Linux as I've seen your posts over the years. However, your attitude towards others is appalling. Even if I was completely anonymous online and using an account that can't be tied to my real persona, I would be unable to treat people with such contempt.
That thread had shown how much f..k they give and the way they communicate with others. Slackware continues to lose reputation even on basic levels. It's not surprise to see a lot of former Slackware users on FreeBSD forums.

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Old 07-24-2020, 04:53 PM   #86
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That thread had shown how much f..k they give and the way they communicate with others. Slackware continues to lose reputation even on basic levels. It's not surprise to see a lot of former Slackware users on FreeBSD forums.
Are we reading the same thread? The one where Alien Bob mentions how this is a minor deal (which it was) and that he would welcome any patches that fix the behavior, he just didn't feel it was worth his time for something so minor. And then the one where Pat said that he was going to look at the patch. The thread where ivandi was slung a few insults (in addition to his many insults on the forum over the years) and Pat came in level headed, said he'd look at it, and applied the patch the next day (and gave ivandi credit on the ChangeLog).
 
Old 07-24-2020, 05:12 PM   #87
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Regarding about about downloading 2,8GB of data (as is of now -current) then tossing roughly 1GB by not even intending installing KDE, I would like to take a note.

When your Internet gap is of 3GB, as I had even myself for years, wasting 1GB is not fun. Really not fun. That could represent you being put offline for a month, after installing Slackware in an evening. Or being unable to install it, because you already used some of your Internet, googling about how to install Slackware.

I am pretty sure that for a well payed U.S. Army employed those things are unthinkable, but I have friends who had chosen to download and install Ubuntu (in defavor of Slackware) only for the simple matter that it offers a nice desktop within a CD sized ISO.

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Old 07-24-2020, 05:28 PM   #88
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I don't know about you good people, uselessly trying to reason with a concerted and sustained denigration of Slackware, based on absurd statements and strong words, but I got two more subjects in my notebook, "suffering" from all three "qualities" described in this short "presentation":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igsb3ejgbL8

Just a waste of time ...
 
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Old 07-24-2020, 05:44 PM   #89
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When your Internet gap is of 3GB, as I had even myself for years, wasting 1GB is not fun. Really not fun. That could represent you being put offline for a month, after installing Slackware in an evening. Or being unable to install it, because you already used some of your Internet, googling about how to install Slackware.
I feel your pain, man. That's terrible! My Internet download speed isn't the best @ 50 MB/sec, but, I don't have a data cap which is vital (I have a 17 year old living in my home). I'm assuming that you cannot shop around for a better ISP?
I'm happy to download/burn a Slackware 15.0 DVD and ship it to you when released. You can PM your address to me if you wish when 15.0 arrives.
 
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Old 07-24-2020, 05:58 PM   #90
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Circa 1980 I managed a project that included transmitting data on dedicated telephone lines at the very high speed of 1200 bauds, i.e. 150 bytes per second.

At this speed you would need 248 days to download a 3G iso
 
  


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