Patrick Volkerding has announced the release of Slackware Linux 13.1: “Yes, it’s that time again! After many months of development and careful testing, we are proud to announce the release of Slackware version 13.1. Slackware 13.1 brings many updates and enhancements, among which you’ll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: Xfce [...]
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Ballmer finally confesses: Vista sucks
October 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Microsoft
Interesting story on Yahoo! Tech Blog yesterday. Here is a link. Christopher Null blog Also see Reasons to Avoid Microsoft Meanwhile the reviews are statring to come in on Slackware Linux 13.0 Update Interesting marketing strategy from Microsoft. Our previous operating system was so bad that you should upgrade to our new operating system [...]
Blogging to Live
September 21st, 2009 · No Comments · blogging
My grandfather, Jesse Augustus Perkins (Oct 18, 1872 – Apr 19, 1951), was an engineer on the Central of Georgia Railway. The family moved back and forth between Columbus, GA where my mom was born to Savannah, GA where she graduated high school. Then the family did an amazing thing. They sent my mom to [...]
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Slackware 13.0 Coming Soon
August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · linux
A development release of Slackware Linux, version 13.0RC1 was made available on July 2, 2009. Looks like the production version will be based on Linux kernel 2.6.29.x Update: A second development release, version 13.0RC2 was made available on August 6, 2009. For me, Slackware is the Linux distribution of choice though I’ve used some others [...]