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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/9/19 10:51 PM, Rick Moen wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Quoting Bobbie Sellers (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com">bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com</a>):
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Michael the Slackware user is a little out of joint as Slackware is
going away.
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What's your source for this, Bobbie? I find no announcement or news
item suggesting that, and, e.g., the x86_64 branch got about ten package
updates today, alone, according to the online Changelog.</pre>
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Michael himself I believe.<br>
And he generally does not read the mailing list<br>
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So, who says it's going away, and what does 'going away' mean
specifically?
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Who can tell... probably nothing at all but rumors abound
in the Linux information sphere.<br>
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I read an opinion piece that said tht the Linux Desktop was
doomed. Doomed to remaining<br>
a niche as the big Linux companies moved in other directions and
neglected the desktop.<br>
The writer seemed to have never heard of a lot of the development
groups and said<br>
that most non-large distros had a short lifetime of 5-7 years. <br>
So he has never heard of PCLinuxOS which has been around now as
an independent<br>
standalone distribution for over 13 years. Well I live in a niche
so it fits me very well.<br>
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Someone at the meeting brought up the small distribution Slax
which had converted from<br>
being based in Slack to a Debian base. The name should have been
changed<br>
But we have small contenders that use quite a variety of
desktops in Porteus and which<br>
are based in Slackware. <br>
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Bobbie Sellers - my nose is quite athletic, it runs in all
weathers but stopped <br>
during our smoky summer of 2018.<br>
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