Re: WOOHOO!!

On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 23:14 -0500, Heh wrote:
> Great work to *everyone* who was involved in getting 14.0 out to us! Thanks
>   again to Patrick for having started Slackware and continuing to keep it
>   going. This is going to be my distro from now on. I've had enough time to
>   play with it and things work so much better and it's actually extremely
>   easier to install or remove packages than rpm distro's (I was a
>   SuSE/openSUSE user for 11 1/2 years!).

Did you know that SuSE was originally a German Translation of Slackware?
I've had the pleasure of meeting a lot of the original SUSE Staff
members, and also, Patrick Volkerding, and I have to say that they are
all amazing. 

I used to have Pat's Cell Phone number from wayyyyyy back when he got
sick years ago because I was helping him find a Doctor where I live. I
was Emailing him before all of this happened, and I then got his Cell
Phone Number because my Mom had not only worked in a Doctor's Office,
she was working at a Hospital here in town when he got sick, so I was
telling him to come to Michigan, but sadly, he didn't have to come here.
My Mom was talking to some Doctors here in Michigan and told them all
about his symptoms, and he knew what it was but was having trouble
getting a Doctor where he was to treat it properly, and I managed to get
one of the Doctors my Mom was talking to, to agree to treat it properly,
and when I heard the news I told him right away, but he said that he had
finally managed to get a Doctor to treat it right, so he didn't need to
come, but he was really happy I tried to hard to help him and he thanked
me. I still have the Slackware Mouse Pad, Tee shirt, and pins I got :)

>   I said two or three months ago that I'll be buying the dvd to help support
>   Patrick's work, and I meant it...I just have to wait til after the third of
>   September for my paycheck to come in and I'll be ordering it first thing.

You will LOVE the case and set! I personally own one of almost
everything the Slackware Store Sells, and I LOVE the Mouse Pads, the
Label Pins, and the Case Pins, and I also love the shirts.  I also have
both versions of the Slackware book, which by the way, if you don't own
it, I do recommend you grab it whenever you can! It's a good book, it's
got some humor in it, and it's a well written book. 

The other book is also really cool, though it's now dated. I bought my
very first Slackware CD-ROM set when 10.0 came out, and before that I
just downloaded the CD / ISOs and burned them myself, but I always liked
buying it when I could. For 10.0 I had already downloaded it and was
using it, but I had some extra money at the time, so I bought the 4 CD
set, and I really liked it. The case is awesome, and it's totally cool
to have it. 

I also bought 10.2, and another one. My Wife happens to have 7.0 too.
(Yea, my Wife not only uses Slackware, She LOVES it :) It's one of the
reasons I Married Her Hehe. That and She likes Vi :) ).

For anyone who's reading this and has not ever gone to the Slackware
store at store.slackware.com I can't say enough good things about it.
I've never had any problems or issues with it, the staff are very kind
and helpful, and also, some people may not know this, but the FreeBSD
Mall was or is connected to it :)

When I first started college, I had gotten this huge refund check from
the school, and I needed supplies for school, so I bought a new
Computer, and then, I went to the Slackware Store, and The FreeBSD Mall,
and I ordered a BUNCH of stuff; I got almost everything for sale from
the Slackware store, and then, I ordered just about every book on the
FreeBSD Mall web site, and of course, tee shirts, Mouse Pads, Stickers,
Case Plates, and more, and I paid extra for 2nd Day Delivery for my
Slackware order, and realized I had enough, so, I paid for overnight
shipping for my FreeBSD Mall order, and about 15 hours later, a huge box
was on the Porch, and I drag it in the House, open it up, and there was
my Complete FreeBSD Mall Order, AND my Slackware Store order, ALL in the
SAME box :) I asked Pat about it, and he said yea that it's true they
used the same place. I also got some freebies from both since I've met
and befriended some of the Staff at both heh.

But anyway, yea, I can't recommend them enough! Also I should have
guessed that they were related; The Slackware Book has a BSD logo on it,
and if you ever buy both a Slackware CD set and a FreeBSD CD set, they
look almost the same heh.

>   Again, great job to everyone and thanks again to you Patrick.

Agree! I just installed Slackware 14.0 on another machine the other day,
and I LOVE it!

>   John

-Allen

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