[ale] Slackware anyone

[Dustin Strickland]

If I'm not mistaken, it comes with a Google-made "Pepper Flash."
Google's been maintaining it since Adobe announced they had dropped
Flash development for Linux except for security updates(maybe the lack
of Linux malware was lacking? :P). Someone correct me on this if I'm
wrong, but it utilizes some sort of "cross-browser" plugin API they're
calling PPAPI, though Pepper Flash is still non-free software and no
other browsers have implemented PPAPI(to my knowledge).

On 07/26/2014 11:14 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> Isn't Chrome come with latest flash plugin. May be is the less bad than
> running windows ...
> 
> On Saturday, July 26, 2014, William Wylde <durtybill at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I've always used slackware on my servers.  I've been running a
>> web-server/proxy-server on one machine for over 10 years now.  It's always
>> had slackware on it.  I just upgraded to slackware 14.x (don't remember
>> sub-release number, but the newest), and it's the only thing I'll run on a
>> server.  Because I always know everything that's going on with it.
>>
>> Slackware was my very first linux experience- way back when Slack 2.0 was
>> the latest and greatest.  I love slackware.
>>
>> This machine, however, is running lubuntu.  A highly-customized lubuntu.
>> Which I like a lot.
>>
>> Wonder how much Micro$loth and Crapple paid Adobe to stop supporting linux
>> with their flash distributions?  I had to install windblows to access
>> Xfinity on anything other than my droid-pad and my iphone.  bleeeech.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Dustin Strickland <
>> dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>
>>> My last experience with Slackware was Salix OS. I'd dabbled with
>>> Slackware before, and I liked it enough to use it on a few machines.
>>> About 3 years ago, I got a secondhand Dell laptop with a Pentium M. I
>>> wanted to use it without spending a week fine-tuning from a fresh
>>> Slackware install, so I put Salix on it.I went in their IRC channel
>>> asking for help with this really funky legacy nvidia driver that had me
>>> stumped for a few days. When I said "Salix", I got a bunch of "Why are
>>> you even here, we don't support Slackware-based distros," "Why don't you
>>> just install Slackware and then install everything you need by hand like
>>> it was meant to be done?" Everything short of "Why do you need graphics
>>> drivers when you have a serial port?" When that laptop died, that was
>>> the last time I touched Slack outside of a VM.
>>>
>>> I generally don't disown a piece of software because of the community
>>> that uses it, but Slack is the exception. They seemed to be arrogant,
>>> elitist assholes and I didn't want to be lumped in with that crowd -- I
>>> am proud to be an arrogant, elitist asshole and I didn't want my use of
>>> a particular OS to take the credit for it :P
>>>
>>> On 07/26/2014 01:21 PM, William Coles wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 7/26/2014 11:37 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:
>>>>> Slackware 8.0 and 8.1 were my distro of choice back then when I had to
>>>>> build server. I've actually managed to fit base install + apache +
>> php +
>>>>> mysql + pppoe server in 170 MB harddrve. We used in mainly for pppoe
>>>>> server
>>>>> but we did test some php scripting, slow but was working.
>>>>>
>>>>> The reason I'm asking is just curiosity. Nobody post questions for
>>>>> Slackware perhaps nobody using Slackware.
>>>>>
>>>>> Even I can remember reading anything on the web news ...
>>>>
>>>> I used to run Slackware on an x86 machine (Pentium 4) back in 2002 or
>>>> so. That was my first time running Linux. It came on a CD included with
>>>> the _Unix Bible_ (2nd Edition). Now I've switched to the other side of
>>>> the spectrum, and am running CentOS because my interest is more geared
>>>> towards learning applications in an enterprise environment (i.e.
>> systems
>>>> administration, security, etc.).
>>>>
>>>> William
>>>>
>>>>
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