Hi everyone,
A timely reminder here that the first BerkeleyLUG meetup of the
month is this Sunday, July 10th, 2016, from 12Noon to 3:00pm PDT
at Bobby G's Pizzeria
www.bobbygspizzeria.com/The BerkeleyLUG meetup notice of the same is also at
www.berkeleylug.com/?page_id=67See you all there!
Light news.
While a few of the good folks more deeply involved in our local Ubuntu
ecosystem who sometimes post here might of course be ready to remind
us of upcoming Ubuntu-specific happenings & opportunities (e.g., see at
least here[1] and here[2]), I still think it is worthwhile mentioning in passing
that one of the original and surviving Linux distributions located much
further-out in our very own East Bay came out with a new major release
of their distro just exactly one week ago today.
That would be the Slackware Linux release of version 14.2 [
3] -- a distro
created "organically" from the ground up way back in the early-1990s[
4]
intended IMHO for much more intermediate to advanced Linux users[
5],
as developed and maintained by Patrick Volkerding[
6] in Contra Costa
County's far-eastern town of Brentwood[
7][
8]...."Far Out Man!"
(NB: perhaps others can see this, but I can't see *
any* connection
between Slackware Linux and the currently-popular but closed-source
team-messaging application Slack[
9].)
I find an interesting and somewhat releveant fact about Slackware Linux
is that although Debian and Ubuntu have plans to discontinue installation
capability and spport for 586-class and hybrid 586/686 processor PCs
(i.e., low-end Pentium PCs) in upcoming major releases within the next
several years(see [
10] and [
11]), I just don't see where and when Slackware
Linux has any similar plans to do the same[
12]..... and that news could be
a very good thing :-)
Cheers,
-A
Go Open Source Software Bears!
References
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[1]GoogleGroup post of June 20, 2016 'BALUG: Meetings: 2016-06-21: Tomorrow Tu; 2016-07-19: Elizabeth K.
Joseph on: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus"; & other BALUG News', https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/berkeleylug/RXPLZhGeeRE
[2]GoogleGroup post of January 6, 2016 'SCALE14x and UbuCon Summit in Pasadena', https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/berkeleylug/gvd4VOqdys4
[3]http://www.slackware.com/lists/archive/viewer.php?l=slackware-announce&y=2016&m=slackware-announce.984724
[4]http://www.slackware.com/info/
[5]https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slackware
[6]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Volkerding
[7]https://store.slackware.com/cgi-bin/store/feedback
[8]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brentwood,_California
[9]https://slack.com/
[10]https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/05/msg00001.html
[11]https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-June/039420.html
[12]http://www.slackware.com/install/sysreq.php
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