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   nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 07:48:25 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
   As I've come to understand it Slackware would only be usable for server use if I were a datacenter. I'd rather write and maintain my own catalogue of prebuilt software packages than rely on one from a community member.
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 07:49:12 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     The base distribution doesn't come with enough for my own server needs, id definitely want postgres and no one has thought of including that in 15.0 yet
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     jae (jae@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 07:52:39 JST jae

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     @nyanide then why consider it? roll your own or pick another distro that doesn't require "cool points"
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 07:53:34 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • jae
     @jae Just have a minor fixation on Slackware since fanboys speak so highly about it. I figured it had to be the holy grail for me with the Unix philosophy stuff but turns out less so.
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     Lyx (lyx@cum.salon)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 07:54:01 JST Lyx

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     @nyanide the onky issue i can see with that concept is the buoldibg and maintaining everything u need is too hogh volume for one person to handle effectively and live thoer own lofe,lestu got paid to do that and only that and even then youd need am incredible amount of devotion and time devotion to make that work
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 07:57:30 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • jae
     @jae It's nice if you are stuck in the past since it includes everything a 1993 Linux user could ever want, (that's what being an updated version of SLS does to you) but I am a zoomer and I'm fine with settling for something like Gentoo which makes me grab all my stuff from a centralized much bigger repository of software. I can roll out my own portage overlays if I wanted to maintain extra repositories for software that's missing from the official stuff.
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 08:04:34 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     @nyanide slackbuilds.org
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 08:04:47 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @dcc See OP
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 08:06:33 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     @nyanide ? stop using linux then?
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 08:09:45 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:
     @dcc See, modern distributions have more stuff in officially vetted repositories and the people maintaining that stuff go through a lucrative process to become a maintainer of the popular distros repos, and then they have to submit stuff like GPG keys and such and now it's easy to rely on these things with little worry.
     
     Slackbuilds and other community repositories probably don't have such a bulletproof process and there are thousands of maintainers with Gmail/yahoo addresses and that makes me uncomfortable.
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     jae (jae@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 08:10:29 JST jae

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     @nyanide
     
     > fanboys
     
     try it out if you haven't already. it's pretty good, but doesn't it's interpretation on the unix philosophy is that, an interpretation.
     
     alpine has a similar approach with its own interpretation of the philosophy
     
     speaking from experience and being a systems researcher, i would argue *bsd is the closest you'll get to a true "unix"
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 08:11:27 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @dcc If you don't mind that, you start having to start looking at diffs whenever there is an update from the community members to make sure there isn't any funny business going on in new build script updates and at that point you are actually physically maintaining a build server. It's too much work for me.
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     jae (jae@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 08:15:11 JST jae

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     > It's nice if you are stuck in the past since it includes everything a 1993
     
     goddamn what a year!
     
     > I am a zoomer
     
     goddamn, what a year! i'm old enough to be your grandfather, jit
     
     > and I'm fine with settling for something like Gentoo which makes me grab all my stuff from a centralized much bigger repository of software. I can roll out my own portage overlays if I wanted to maintain extra repositories for software that's missing from the official stuff.
     
     you think gentoo is fun? you should have seen when it was released and we ran emerge on 256mb (yep, you read it right) of ram.
     
     if i'm getting what you're putting down, you sound like you'd benefit from a minimal system and just maintain your own vcs and pkg repo?
     
     i'm currently running a mix of alpine and bsd and doing exactly that. i'm close to saying "fuck you carl" to packagers. btw i have no idea who carl is
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 08:17:02 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @jae >if i'm getting what you're putting down, you sound like you'd benefit from a minimal system and just maintain your own vcs and pkg repo?
     
     If I were to benefit from such a system I would have a legitimate reason to use Slackware, it's the perfect system for something like that. But there's no benefits to it and I would like to steer clear from intensive manual labor doing those sorts of things.
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 08:28:16 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     @nyanide I think you need to read more, first there is no such "vetting" process, second slackbuids are only build files the software is downloaded by you, third slackbuilds are checked before they uploaded. You should read every update by every distro if you are thinking this way.
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 08:31:13 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @dcc >first there is no such "vetting" process
     
     I'm pretty sure only people with debian.org addresses are uploading to the debian apt repos, and vice versa with other modern distros.
     
     >second slackbuids are only build files the software is downloaded by you
     
     Oh, YouTube videos gave me the impression the scripts worked more like aur pkgbuilds, that's my bad.
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 08:32:23 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:
     @dcc You're right, I could read up more on these things. May have to give this a good shot for myself before I assert these things, god damn
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     menherahair (menherahair@eientei.org)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 02:33:33 JST menherahair

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     @nyanide @dcc seriously don't look up how package maintainers work and are assigned if you like to sleep at night
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     menherahair (menherahair@eientei.org)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 02:33:34 JST menherahair

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     @nyanide @dcc >I'm pretty sure only people with debian.org addresses are uploading to the debian apt repos, and vice versa with other modern distros.
     jamie pull up the changelogs from people who update some trash build nobody uses twice a year to keep their gentoo.org mailbox
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