Slackware 64 - It's official... and awesome.

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Slackware.com said:
[tap tap tap]... Is this thing on? ;-)

Ready or not, Slackware has now gone 64-bit with an official x86_64 port being maintained in-sync with the regular x86 -current branch. DVDs will be available for purchase from the Slackware store when Slackware 13.0 is released. Many thanks go out to the Slackware team for their help with this branch and a special thank you to Eric Hameleers who did the real heavy lifting re-compiling everything for this architecture, testing, re-testing, and staying in-sync with -current.

We've been developing and testing Slackware64 for quite a while. Most of the team is already using Slackware64 on their personal machines, and things are working well enough that it is time to let the community check our work.

We'd like to thank the unofficial 64 bit projects for taking up the slack for us for so long so that we could take our time getting everything just right. Without those alternatives, we would have been pressured to get things out before they were really ready.

As always -- have fun!

Pat and the Slackware crew
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I don't think it's a secret that I fucking love Slackware, and now that 64-bit support is official (it was previously unofficially ported to 64-bit by a few projects like Slamd64 and Bluewhite64) and going to be available alongside 32-bit in version 13 I'll have no more need to experiment with different 64-bit distros.

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JBroll is pleased.

Jeff
 
Hey man I might try Linux just for kicks one day (and maybe more if I like it), would Slackware be fine for end-user use?
 
No.

Try Ubuntu or Fedora 11 for that, Slackware is for when you know the ins and outs a bit... you'll learn a lot from it, about computing and Linux in general (the joke is something along the lines of "To learn Red Hat is to know Red Hat, to learn Slackware is to know Linux") but it's not geared towards holding your hand. After using other distros for a year or so, getting to know the basics of configuration and customization, and being at least somewhat familiar with the command line, Slackware is great for learning and having a system stable, secure, and suited exactly to your needs.

Jeff
 
Ah that's all good. I'm as equally interested in learning more, if not even more interested, so that's going to be interesting in the distant future, especially since it's 64-bit.
 
I fucking love slackware and can't wait for 13 since i lost my 12.2 disk and there is no point downloading 12.2 again before 13 is out!

Currently rolling Gentoo alongside slack and debian.

P-E, another good one to try would be Sabayon. While that is gentoo based, and is thus generally requires source code compilation, it does come with nearly everything installed for WIFI, GFX etc, looks sexy and would be a great transition from Windows.
 
The newest Fedora has an implementation of the 'nouveau' drivers, which are great if you have an NVIDIA card. The proprietary drivers don't always work perfectly, and there's no telling what's in the bastards...

Jeff
 
Thanks for the tips dudes. I'll take a look into that later on, I'm not gonna try this soon but when I have money to build a new PC I'll slap Linux on a small hard drive to try it out and learn more about how the innards of how it works.

Though if you have suggestions for me keep 'em to yourselves or PM me, I just don't want the thread to go off-topic because of my Linux-noobness.
 
P-E said:
[snip]...I just don't want the thread to go off-topic because of my Linux-noobness.
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It's a JBroll thread about the Linux distro that gives people nightmares, no need to worry about staying on-topic.

Normally Ubuntu would be the one to recommend, but I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest Fedora 11 as well. If you want to go Ubuntu, Linux Mint (which is based on Ubuntu) has a lot of the same advantages but comes with more neat stuff prepackaged. Any of those three are great first and second distros, and once you start hand-hacking things together you'll get closer to the distros that put hair on your chest like Slackware.

Jeff
 
Fedora 11 had me almost emigrate from XP. Liked it a lot and unlike with Ubuntu, I had much less driver/hardware issues with Fedora. Basically none at all...

Keeping Fedora around as a Live OS in case Windows might fuck me in the ass at some point...
 
JBroll said:
It's a JBroll thread about the Linux distro that gives people nightmares, no need to worry about staying on-topic.

Normally Ubuntu would be the one to recommend, but I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest Fedora 11 as well. If you want to go Ubuntu, Linux Mint (which is based on Ubuntu) has a lot of the same advantages but comes with more neat stuff prepackaged. Any of those three are great first and second distros, and once you start hand-hacking things together you'll get closer to the distros that put hair on your chest like Slackware.

Jeff
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Thanks :p Yeah well after reading what slashvanyoung said too, I might start using Fedora as a Live OS, just in case I got a bit tired and fooled around with Windows to the point of fucking it.
 
If you compare setting up a Slack system and getting it running with the essentials VS doing the same with Gentoo, Arch or LFS then it's actually child's play! Haha!
 
LFS, yes. Arch and Gentoo will depend on the system - with Arch and Gentoo you just have to set up the long process of package installation, but more configuration seems to be done by the box. Time is the biggest difference between Slack and a source-based distro... not performance, time to set up.

Jeff
 
JBroll said:
LFS, yes. Arch and Gentoo will depend on the system - with Arch and Gentoo you just have to set up the long process of package installation, but more configuration seems to be done by the box. Time is the biggest difference between Slack and a source-based distro... not performance, time to set up.

Jeff
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Don't get me wrong, i fucking adore slack!
 
You don't have to spend as much time passing obscure black magic to the compiler like Gentoo and Arch prefer, but those seem to do a bit more out of the box... Arch seems to do less of everything, and honestly seems lazy to a fault.

Plus, the Slack mascot is clearly superior - where else do you have software represented by a pipe-smoking penguin?

Jeff
 
Downloading... got the current running but might as well update fully.... does it have a grub installer or do i have to make an entry in my exisitng grub? I fucking hate LiLO...
 
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