Report on OSCON 2014
I attended two and one-half days of the OSCON-2014 conference after
being selected as winner of PLUG's book review contest. Thanks to
O'Reilly Books for sponsoring the ticket and thanks to Michael Dexter
for organizing the contest.
I made full use of the ticket by
Patrick Volkerding, founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux
distribution, won an O'Reilly Open Source Award at OSCON-2014. Step up
to Slackware!
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On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 04:55:31PM -0700, Bill Kielhorn wrote:
Report on OSCON 2014
[snip]
Thanks again to O'Reilly and to Michael, and I will be happy to discuss
OSCON further at the next PLUG meeting.
Nice report Bill, thank you.
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Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
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On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I have looked longingly at distros that use a rolling release,
because I agree that periodic dist-upgrades are a pain.
The thing with rolling releases, in my opinion, is that they're pretty
good at making sure you have a fairly recently
Arch has been working nicely for me lately. I imagine slackware would be
somewhat similar...
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:18 AM, benjamin barber starwor...@gmail.com
wrote:
I tried slackware many many years ago, i think when slackware was still
running on linux kernel 2.0, and it was so hard to
