is that for real? it's from www.userlocal.com
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Posted by: mRgOBLIN
Thu Apr 1 00:10:53 2004

Slackware Founder announces retirement!!!

In a press statement today Founder and sole developer of the Slackware Linux
operating system "Patrick Volkerding", announced his retirement.
"Volkerding" states that the next release of Slackware (codenamed "Porch
swing") will in fact be the last. Unfortunately the highly anticipated Linux
2.6 kernel based release, previously codenamed "Terrapin station" has been
cancelled. When we asked "Patrick" why he was giving up he replied:

In these days of flashy installers and dependancy checking, nobody seems to
want a simple reliable system that just works..." "I Need A Miracle!" or
perhaps some "Young Blood" to take over this "Masterpiece" but I still feel
"She Belongs To Me". "Even so" "Me & My Uncle" will be "Playin' In The
Band"...

Yes, it seems that "Volkerding" is taking up a career in music, and is about
to start touring with a band called "Banjo Bob and the X-men". Apparently
this is a 6 piece banjo band that wear spandex pyjamas and do Greatful Dead
covers.

Meanwhile the future of Slackware may be left out in "The Cold Rain And
Snow".

mRgOBLIN

Hello,
Am 2004-04-18, schrieb Lucas Jr. :
> is that for real? it's from www.userlocal.com
> -----------------------------------------
> Posted by: mRgOBLIN
> Thu Apr 1 00:10:53 2004
> Slackware Founder announces retirement!!!
[...]
> Meanwhile the future of Slackware may be left out in "The Cold Rain And
> Snow".
>
> mRgOBLIN
And at the End of the message:
| Okay now just so as no one panics in the future ... The item above was
| *not* a serious news post, please note the Date of April 1st

ciao
thomas
--
How do I type "for i in *.dvi do xdvi $i done" in a GUI?
-- Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 06:01:32 -0300, Lucas Jr. wrote:

> is that for real?

No. It's a joke.
(Had it been 1st of april today, i would have claimed otherwise :-)).

In some contries people make pranks on each other at the first of April.

There is a RFC put out on that:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3751.html

> it's from www.userlocal.com
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Posted by: mRgOBLIN
> Thu Apr 1 00:10:53 2004
>
> Slackware Founder announces retirement!!!

Een April, kikker in je bil!

--
-Menno.

I thought 1st april was a brazillian holyday only...
thanks and sorrry anyway...
:-)

"Thomas Flaig" <t.gf@freenet.de> escreveu na mensagem
news:c5tgs0$5cmel$1@ID-207410.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Hello,
> Am 2004-04-18, schrieb Lucas Jr. :
> > is that for real? it's from www.userlocal.com
> > -----------------------------------------
> > Posted by: mRgOBLIN
> > Thu Apr 1 00:10:53 2004
> > Slackware Founder announces retirement!!!
> [...]
> > Meanwhile the future of Slackware may be left out in "The Cold Rain And
> > Snow".
> >
> > mRgOBLIN
> And at the End of the message:
> | Okay now just so as no one panics in the future ... The item above was
> | *not* a serious news post, please note the Date of April 1st
>
> ciao
> thomas
> --
> How do I type "for i in *.dvi do xdvi $i done" in a GUI?
> -- Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces

Lucas Jr. <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> is that for real? it's from www.userlocal.com
> -----------------------------------------

> Posted by: mRgOBLIN
> Thu Apr 1 00:10:53 2004

> Slackware Founder announces retirement!!!

<snippity-snip>

Oh man, gotta love when people fall for the April Fools post weeks after
the fact. Just cracks me up.

Cichlidiot wrote:

> Oh man, gotta love when people fall for the April Fools post weeks after
> the fact. Just cracks me up.

Yes, but one day is IS going to retire. What happens then? What do you think
P.V. will do with Slack? Better yet, what do YOU think he SHOULD do with it
(to keep it going, obviously). Something to think about. How old is P.V.?

Al

"Lucas Jr." (me@privacy.net) writes:
> is that for real? it's from www.userlocal.com
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Posted by: mRgOBLIN
> Thu Apr 1 00:10:53 2004
>
> Slackware Founder announces retirement!!!
>
> In a press statement today Founder and sole developer of the Slackware Linux
> operating system "Patrick Volkerding", announced his retirement.
> "Volkerding" states that the next release of Slackware (codenamed "Porch
> swing") will in fact be the last. Unfortunately the highly anticipated Linux
> 2.6 kernel based release, previously codenamed "Terrapin station" has been
> cancelled. When we asked "Patrick" why he was giving up he replied:
>
YOu didn't read the date? You've been taken. You might have gotten away
with something on April Fool's Day itself, but we've all been primed by
this time.

You can tell anyway. All the references to the Grateful Dead put it
over the top. Patrick is a Deadhead, that's there the "darkstar" comes
from, but since he's never named the Slackware versions after GD songs,
why should he start now?


Michael

A-B C. <atakeoutcanton@adams-blaketakeout.com> wrote:
> Yes, but one day is IS going to retire. What happens then? What do you think
> P.V. will do with Slack? Better yet, what do YOU think he SHOULD do with it
> (to keep it going, obviously). Something to think about. How old is P.V.?

One day my car is going to need to be replaced too. Doesn't mean I worry
about that now. I'll deal with that eventuality when it comes around.
Likewise, I'll deal with finding alternatives to Slack if and when Pat
decides to stop developing. I don't really see that as much of an
immediate future likelyhood, although it is a far off likely event, even
if only because Linux is rendered obsolete or some such. If I spent my
life worrying about far off probable events, I'd have very little time for
much else.

A-B C. <atakeoutcanton@adams-blaketakeout.com> says...

>Yes, but one day is IS going to retire. What happens then? What do you think
>P.V. will do with Slack? Better yet, what do YOU think he SHOULD do with it
>(to keep it going, obviously). Something to think about. How old is P.V.?

Unlike what happened with MS-DOS and MacOS for the 6800 processor, the
information exists so that someone else can continue the development.
I expect that several people will do so and that there will be a lot
of debate as to which of them is following the slackware philosophy.


--
Guy Macon, Electronics Engineer & Project Manager for hire.
Remember Doc Brown from the _Back to the Future_ movies? Do you
have an "impossible" engineering project that only someone like
Doc Brown can solve? My resume is at http://www.guymacon.com/

Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com> wrote:

> Unlike what happened with MS-DOS and MacOS for the 6800 processor, the
> information exists so that someone else can continue the development.
> I expect that several people will do so and that there will be a lot
> of debate as to which of them is following the slackware philosophy.

I agree with others that it's premature to worry about this now. I was just
interested in what others thought about the subject.

My hope is that P.V. would have an heir lined up so that Slack does not "go to
committee" and get splintered. To me, Slack is the last of the "small
business" distros. The others are all-vol (like Deb and Gen) or big-corp like
MDK, SuSE, etc.)

When possible I always do business with small firms..... because I know from
experince that you always get the best service and quality from them. Slack
is one-guy outfit and it's his rep. that is at stake. It's not made by a
group of faceless corporate clones or geek-committee members. His biz is like
my biz (and maybe your biz.... small, personal, and committed to quality
balanced with speed and 'newness' with respect to a distro. The man knows
what he's doing and I'm happy to send him $40 each time he brings out a new
version (as long as it isn't once a month!!!!!)

ANC