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Interesting... they just now switched to PAM and Python 3? And the package management tool now supports file locking to prevent installs from clashing? I knew
by periheli0n 5y ago
Interesting... they just now switched to PAM and Python 3? And the package management tool now supports file locking to prevent installs from clashing?
I knew that Slackware was rather bare-bones, but I didn't expect it to be that bare bones. I knew that SUSE was built on top of Slackware about 25 years ago, which now I understand... If it was that bare bones back then, it must have been rather straightforward to improve on it.
Even more is it impressive that Slackware is still around after such a long time. It inspired one of the oldest desktop-capable Linux distributions, has seen others like Mandrake/Caldera come and go, and is still releasing.
Congrats, honestly! Sometimes it pays off to keep things as simple as possible.
- hulitu 5y ago> And the package management tool now supports file locking to prevent installs from clashing? This is mostly for geeks who want to compile their own stuff. I compile my slack sequentially and don't use this feature. A normal user just installs the binary packages and is ready for action.