Slackware 14.2 RC2 Now Available

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Slackware 14.2 RC2 Now Available

The second release candidate of the upcoming Slackware 14.2 is now available...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Slackware-14.2-RC2

[tigerroast]

Arch>Slack

[SilverMachine]

Arch>Slack

I have to disagree. Anything < Slackware. I've tried many distro's, including Arch, but always went back to Slackware. Once you get used to Slackware there's no other distro that comes even close. The stability and simplicity of Slackware are simply unrivaled.

[tigerroast]

I have to disagree. Anything < Slackware. I've tried many distro's, including Arch, but always went back to Slackware. Once you get used to Slackware there's no other distro that comes even close. The stability and simplicity of Slackware are simply unrivaled.

I have to disagree as well. I've distro-hopped before Manjaro showed me the pathway to success (in other words, Arch). Its simplicity can only be rivaled by specialist distros (I'll hold me breath for Solus or even suckless' distro). Hell, you can cut out any added complications of it being a mostly-binary distro and build everything from the ABS' trees. Just do whatever you want.

After the initial switch-over to systemd, there have been zero stability issues for me, which, considering how fast Arch gets bug-fixes and the timing of the package releases, isn't that far a stretch.

[milkylainen]

I have been running Slackware for nigh on 20 years now. There is nothing like it.
I don't care much for distros inventing "yet another layer of impenetrable crap" to control stuff.
EvilWM (30k window manager), Slack and X has been my mainstay for nearly two decades.
I started rolling my own userspace apps and building my own kernels around -97 and have build every stable major release since.
I don't see why I would change. Everything works beautifully.

I have tried every version of Fedora, Ubuntu and most other crap. It seems like every time I try them there is a "paradigm shift" taking a lot of useful hours to learn how they've screwed up the same old concept in another way this time around.
In the end they all do the same thing, controlling the same stuff.

I resent the idea that a useful concept needs reinventing just for the sake of reinvention.
Slack is the distro that stays somewhat true to old unix style. And for me, that is just fine.

[Oden]

I like slackware and used it for 12 years, i tried other distributions but none to my liking.
I do how ever looking for at slackware replacement since i don't want pulse audio in my installation.
Is there an slackware like distro that isn't a victim for poetterisation yet?

[Jedipottsy]

I like slackware and used it for 12 years, i tried other distributions but none to my liking.
I do how ever looking for at slackware replacement since i don't want pulse audio in my installation.
Is there an slackware like distro that isn't a victim for poetterisation yet?

Pretty sure Slackware was the last, or one of the very last to include pulse audio, but tbh pulse audio isn't that bad now, much better than when it first launched.

[Masush5]

Veteran unix admins beware! Pulseaudio is coming to eat 1% of your precious cpu time for a much improved experience!

I really don't think we need to argue about this again but i just can't help myself...

[kaidenshi]

Pretty sure Slackware was the last, or one of the very last to include pulse audio, but tbh pulse audio isn't that bad now, much better than when it first launched.

Yep, the only way to get away from pulseaudio these days is to switch to OpenBSD (for a Slackware-like experience) or a minimalist distro for older hardware (Puppy, Alpine, etc).

[Oden]

I got CPU and memory enough to run PA so it's not that.
I just don't want it.