●● IRC: #techbytes @ FreeNode: Thursday, April 29, 2021 ●● ● Apr 29 [00:19] *GNUmoon has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [00:58] schestowitz__ > Subject: revoking signatures [00:58] schestowitz__ > [00:58] schestowitz__ > [00:58] schestowitz__ > There's a git repo ready to list people who had their requests ignored [00:58] schestowitz__ > or denied, but it makes little sense to bring it to the public if there [00:58] schestowitz__ > aren't a lot of people in this situation, and probably no one would like [00:58] schestowitz__ > to be the first, so we'd need several people to get it started. [00:58] schestowitz__ > [00:58] schestowitz__ > [00:58] schestowitz__ > Did you have any luck looking for rejected reversal Pull Requests? [00:58] schestowitz__ > (as opposed to ones that actually got into the git repo proper) [00:58] schestowitz__ I think the main issue is technical obstruction of such requests. Maybe they request it manually over email pleading. [00:58] schestowitz__ Can you give us more info? ● Apr 29 [03:59] schestowitz__
[03:59] schestowitz__Slackware in general is much closer to classic Unix than newer Linux versions, given it was first developed in the mid-'90s, when Unix was still king. If you are old school enough to use init scripts and know your way around the command line in general, then Slackware is probably more appealing as both a server and desktop Linux.
[03:59] schestowitz__"Slackware 15 has a lot of flexibility, but it's not for kids, and it's not SUSE, and it has non-Debian/RH/SUSE/Oracle roots, yet it's still very familiar to salted enterprise personnel and has all the juice except it eschews the disciplines/configs imposed by system," said Tom Henderson, principal researcher at ExtremeLabs.