{"id":196,"date":"2010-02-27T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kai.mactane.org\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2010-02-27T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T20:37:00","slug":"why-im-ditching-slackware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/27\/why-im-ditching-slackware\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I’m Ditching Slackware"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to find a package to install Git. The page at http:\/\/www.slackware.com\/packages\/<\/a> still says that the Slackware Package Browser has been moved to http:\/\/packages.slackware.it\/<\/a> — it’s said this for years, and I keep wondering when they’re going to move the package browser back onto the main Slackware site.<\/p>\n

But this time, when I followed that link, I found a page that’s so short, I can reproduce it in its entirety here:<\/p>\n

\n The Slackware Package Browser<\/strong><\/p>\n

The old package browser was broken — instead of trying to fix it I am creating a new one from scratch. I\u2019ll be using the Django framework<\/a>. I\u2019m also looking into Solr<\/a> and Haystack<\/a> to see if they can be of some use here.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not going to take a lot of time and I will publish the working portions of the Package Browser as I finish and test them. Also, we\u2019ll have some other thing to announce in a few days, so stay tuned \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

You should follow us on Twitter here<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The cherry on top of this sundae of fail awaits at the Twitter feed: the last tweet in it is from October 23rd, 2009. As of the time I’m writing this, that’s four months ago.<\/p>\n

The one saving grace is that that last tweet includes a link to a web-browsable repository where I was able to download the package I needed. And yes, I do realize that Slackware’s essentially a volunteer project in Patrick Volkerding’s spare time. And I really do appreciate and love the distro’s commitment to remaining Unix-like.<\/p>\n

But I need something that’s a little more rigorously maintained.<\/p>\n

(Now I need to figure out what to migrate to. That’s likely to be quite a headache.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went to find a package to install Git. The page at http:\/\/www.slackware.com\/packages\/ still says that the Slackware Package Browser has been moved to http:\/\/packages.slackware.it\/ — it’s said this for years, and I keep wondering when they’re going to move the package browser back onto the main Slackware site. But this time, when I followed that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[87,86,59,57,48,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}