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FAQ last updated: Wed Feb 4 10:01:33 EST 2015

This is a periodic pointer to the Frequently-Asked Questions list (FAQ)
for the alt.os.linux.slackware newsgroup. The FAQ which may be
frequently referred to in messages posted to the newsgroup may be found
in its original text form at

http://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt

There is also an HTML-rendered copy at

http://l0k1.free.fr/aolsfaq.html

[Martha Adams]

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FAQ last updated: Wed Feb 4 10:01:33 EST 2015
This is a periodic pointer to the Frequently-Asked Questions list (FAQ)
for the alt.os.linux.slackware newsgroup. The FAQ which may be
frequently referred to in messages posted to the newsgroup may be found
in its original text form at
http://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt
There is also an HTML-rendered copy at
http://l0k1.free.fr/aolsfaq.html

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I notice this very useful FAQ hasn't been updated for a while. This
world is changing, seems to me, some of that change wants to be
reflected and included here in the FAQ.

Addition of a section re Slackware, Volkerding, money and etc, would
be good, too. Can we find or start-up a Slackware forum?

(I think that in today's world, a good Slackware forum would want to
be actively managed, not print all that comes in.)

Titeotwawki -- Martha Adams [Tues 2018 Oct 16]

[jrg]

Post by Martha Adams

Post by Periodic FAQ Pointer
Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3.1 (Perl 5.018)
Archive-name: aolsfaq
FAQ last updated: Wed Feb 4 10:01:33 EST 2015
This is a periodic pointer to the Frequently-Asked Questions list (FAQ)
for the alt.os.linux.slackware newsgroup. The FAQ which may be
frequently referred to in messages posted to the newsgroup may be found
in its original text form at
http://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt
There is also an HTML-rendered copy at
http://l0k1.free.fr/aolsfaq.html

=========================================
I notice this very useful FAQ hasn't been updated for a while. This
world is changing, seems to me, some of that change wants to be
reflected and included here in the FAQ.
Addition of a section re Slackware, Volkerding, money and etc, would
be good, too. Can we find or start-up a Slackware forum?
(I think that in today's world, a good Slackware forum would want to
be actively managed, not print all that comes in.)
Titeotwawki -- Martha Adams [Tues 2018 Oct 16]

Have you been to the slackware section of linux questions?
https://bit.ly/2CNX2dU

I can't imagine one needing much more.

[Sylvain Robitaille]

Post by Martha Adams
I notice this very useful FAQ hasn't been updated for a while.

You're right. Someone else has already pointed out a number of
outdated links within the text of the FAQ and provided links to where
the same information can still be found archived. Updating those
links in the FAQ text is clearly taking longer than it reasonably
should, but it *is* on my todo list.

Post by Martha Adams
This world is changing, seems to me, some of that change wants to
be reflected and included here in the FAQ.

How much of the world changing, though, is relevant to this FAQ,
which is intended to help answer questions that specifically get
asked here in Alt.OS.Linux.Slackware.

Post by Martha Adams
Addition of a section re Slackware, Volkerding, money and etc, would
be good, too.

If you have text to propose it would certainly be considered.

Post by Martha Adams
Can we find or start-up a Slackware forum?

Like the one that already exists on Linux Questions?
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/

Why reinvent the wheel?

Post by Martha Adams
(I think that in today's world, a good Slackware forum would want to
be actively managed, not print all that comes in.)

I don't understand what you mean here, I'm afraid.

[Mike Spencer]

Post by Martha Adams
Addition of a section re Slackware, Volkerding, money and etc, would
be good, too.

Yes.

Post by Martha Adams
Can we find or start-up a Slackware forum?

alt.os.linux.slackware? Oh, wait, that's *this* group? What was the
question again?

Post by Martha Adams
(I think that in today's world, a good Slackware forum would want to
be actively managed, not print all that comes in.)

Well, so far here in aols, we've had very little harassment from
gung-ho advocates of systemd, make-Linux-like-windoes, you *have* to
put MyFavoritePackage in the next release or I'm leaving and other
similar pathologies.

Personally, old geezer that I am, I *like* usenet and archived mailing
lists, dislike web fora. What could your proposed "Slackware forum"
have, other than "active management" that we don't have here?