Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-04 Thread Chuck Hast
Yes, but if you were one of those she would let you know in uncertain terms that ripe was not what she ment. She would probably hand you a bar of soap and show you the bath... I used to see her get in discussions with the gas co they would go out and shut down a customer due to a leak, she would

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: Just an observation. I know you won't like it. ;-) Ben, Au contrair! It is not unexpected. Keep on truckin', Rich

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Paul Heinlein wrote: There's the hardware side of age -- how many trips around the sun have you made? -- and the software side -- do you "act your age"? The two are obviously linked, limitations imposed by the former cannot always be ignored by the latter, and yet there are

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Chuck Hast wrote: My grandmother who ran a plumbing shop until she was 87 and was taken by a heart attack, told me that there are two types of people, those that get old and those that get ripe, she said to get ripe, not old. She was quite a character up to the night she

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-04 Thread Chuck Hast
My grandmother who ran a plumbing shop until she was 87 and was taken by a heart attack, told me that there are two types of people, those that get old and those that get ripe, she said to get ripe, not old. She was quite a character up to the night she passed on. On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 7:37 AM

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Feb 2022, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: I am old now and I guess that was my swan song. I made a living for years using Slackware and was able to save enough to retire comfortably. Wayne, Many decades ago an older woman neighbor and friend shared her philosophy of life that I

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-03 Thread Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.
Amen! (Praise Bob) My first Slackware system required a bunch of floppy disks, maybe 1996?. Business partners and myself at the time thought Debian was a better choice and we never did any projects with that Slackware. Later on and working as a sole proprietor, I needed pretty firm

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-03 Thread Tomas Kuchta
My first X on PC was XFree86 on fairly recent SuSE, think they just switched from Slackware then. Before PC - I used some X looking/feeling thing on sunOS, VMS and HPUX, if i recall these abbreviations correctly. -T On Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 17:23 Russell Senior wrote: > My first distro was SLS in

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-03 Thread Russell Senior
My first distro was SLS in December 1992. I was an early adopter of Debian when it came along. On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 2:10 PM Paul Heinlein wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > It finally happened! Slackware 15.0 has been released! > > http://www.slackware.com/ > > > > The

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!

2022-02-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 3 Feb 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: It finally happened! Slackware 15.0 has been released! http://www.slackware.com/ The world's oldest active Linux distro lives on! Praise Bob! I remember installing Slackware '95. It was my first experience with Linux and difficult for me to fully