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Less crayon; more wrapper!
My mind has been wandering today. I'll stay away from the crayons. ;-)
Start putting caps on the markers, too. Even if they smell nice, they don't help concentration worth a damn!
One has to be careful with markers. Sniffing crayons won't hurt anyone.
Marbles, however, are an entirely different story.
No shit?!? That still exists? That was my first distro. Must be like 25 years or so. I never really caught fire with it/Linux until a while later though.
Wow. Unbelievable.
Not really.
Don't listen to @WSS -- he's just a Void geek. :-)
There's a small but vibrant Slackware community. Slackware is presently ranked 34 at distrowatch. Compare this to Void's ranking at 103.
Slackware is the oldest, still existing Linux distribution. :-)
I see a pattern here :-)
I guess that I do tend to like older things, for example, older computers, older mobile phones, older clothes, older music, older furniture, older apartments, and older Linux/BSD distributions. :-)
but not old women.
I was careful to say "older" and not "old". :-)
Older women aren't always so bad. :-)
You'll be good as long as it's not "older food, older presidents, older patches"...
Probably you'll find a museum that has a spot for the strange, old geek with the long grey hair hanging into the coffee mug who fell asleep over his old-style laptop in his wheelchair...
And anyway...
...your pattern clearly is different from @WSS pattern: even more obscure distros and - judging by the pics he posts - even more obscure dates.
Thanks for not grouping me together with @WSS, who's in a class of his own. :-)
I don't think Slackware is that obscure. Virtually everyone who got into Linux in the mid-90s ended up using Slackware at least once.
However, blindly taking prebuilt binaries and untarring into root as an installation/upgrade system just.. no.
@angstrom I find it amusing that anyone actually still uses Distrowatch. Do you still finger @kernel.org to check the latest kernel release, too- or just read slashdot?
See http://www.slackware.com/gpg-key . But, yes, I concede that Slackware isn't for everyone ...
Doesn't everyone read the distrowatch weekly newsletter every Monday morning???
As for kernel.org, it's still your best one-stop shop for fresh kernels. :-) But I confess that I don't go there so often these days: I stopped compiling my own kernels after the 2.4 series. After that, it became too much work for too little added benefit in return!
So you haven't even built them by hand since the late 90s, but still run Slackware. Is FVWM95 that hard to give up?
Tell me, how could one not like FVWM95?
I always found the little ghost icon (for Ghostview) cute. The little shark is also endearing!
Ah, memories. :-)
FVWM95 looks awesomely retro.
Here's my little benchmark of the VPS 1000 G7SEa1 (4 vCore, 4GB RAM, 80GB HDD):
Reading (raw, unencrypted):
Writing (on to ext4, encrypted LUKS aes-xts-sha1):
hdparm -t
is pretty wonky and most likely incorrect:My homemade naive-ioping:
Ethernet:
/proc/cpuinfo:
The virtual CPU is missing/not-exposing some important features like AVX and AES-NI. I'm gonna open a ticket later and ask for it to be enabled if possible.
I tried installing Windows Server 2012 R2 with VNC which worked okay, kind of slow IO but that's always been my experience with windows.
Linux seems to work absolutely flawless.
Quite a bargain for ~50€ a year if you ask me.