So, openssh backdoor through a patch applied by some distros to make it work with systemd, which itself is vulnerable because of a compromise of the LZMA / xz code.
I don't know who needs to read this, since there are probably 12 #Slackware users out there, but a new version of postfix is out for Slackware 15, with a patch for "smtp-smuggling":
In the early 2000's, #Linux distros had avoided packaging #Xfce because of its closed toolkit roots even though Xfce had been #OpenSource via the GPL since 1999.
#Slackware was the first major distribution to package Xfce at 3.8 in 2002! #Debian followed with Xfce 4.4 in Etch in 2007.
Just like Liam, this is me going back to my roots: Slackware was the very first Linux distro I installed myself. At the time (1996 or 1997) I only had dial-up internet at home, so over the course of a week or so I snuck a bunch of 3½" floppies into work, downloaded the various Slackware 3.1 boot and root disks onto them, and spent the next weekend alternately basking in my skillz and swearing loudly when things didn't actually work.
I got there in the end, though, and I was a Slackware user until the early 2000s when that shiny new-fangled Debian distro caught my eye.
Last I tried screwing around with #zfs, #KVM and #qemu on #slackware I had a bunch of fun with scripts from sbo and dependency hell – since neither is an official slack package.
How does this fare in 2024 if I were to try to get a headless host for my stuff (qubes-like but I like pain)?
❝Today, thanks to Android and ChromeOS, Linux is an important end-user operating system. But, before Linux, there were important Unix desktops, although most of them never made it. …❞
I have a news alert on Google that is configured to send me an email if someone mentioned #OpenBSD or #Slackware ...
The last two alerts received obviously did not make any sense at all, so either Google Alert is useless (which it has been for a long time, to be honest) or AI sites are increasingly pushing nonsense content down the Googleplex throat. Or both.
Methinks both. AI is going to be the end of the Internet as a useful tool.
57 years ago on October 20, 1966, Patrick Volkerding was born. Volkerding is best known as the founder and creator of Slackware, one of the earliest Linux distributions.
Slackware, introduced in 1993, quickly gained recognition for its simplicity and adherence to the Unix philosophy. While other Linux distributions embraced modern package management systems, Slackware maintained a more traditional approach