Slackware, the Longest Active Linux Distro, Finally Has a Patreon Page

'"Slackware is the longest active Linux distribution project, founded
in 1993," writes TheBAFH (Slashdot reader #68,624).

"Today there are many Linux distributions available, but I've remained
dedicated to this project as I believe it still holds an important
place in the Linux ecosystem," writes Patrick J. Volkerding on a new
Patreon page. He adds that Slackware's users "know that Slackware can
be trusted not to constantly change the way things work, so that your
investment in learning Slackware lasts longer than it would with a
system that's a moving target... Your support is greatly appreciated,
and will make it possible for me to continue to maintain this
project."

TheBAFH writes:

The authenticity of the Patreon page has been confirmed by Mr.
Volkerding in a post in the Slackware forum of LinuxQuestions.org. "I
was going to wait to announce it until I had a few more planned
updates done in -current that would be getting things closer to an
initial 15.0 beta release, but since it's been spotted in the wild
I'll confirm it."

Slashdot also emailed Patrick J. Volkerding at Slackware.com last
summer and confirmed that that is indeed the account that he's posting
from on LinuxQuestions. At the time, he was still trying to find the
time to get a Patreon page set up.

"I've been trying to catch up on nearly a decade of neglecting
everything other than Slackware, but I'm at least getting more caught
up."'

-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/08/16/238254

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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