Slackware Blog

Sorry about that guys and gals…I was doing some stuff to my machine over the weekend and I guess I overwrote one of the changelogs that my script uses…Well, this issue should be fixed now! Sorry about that!

It looks like the updates have come to a slow-down. Hopefully this is a sign as to what is to come in the next few days…So I was thinking that we might have a contest for guessing the release date. Post your thoughts about us having a contest and we will see what we can do! Of course, the contest would be pretty specific in nature due to the fact that some people could guess the same day, with that in mind, we would have to go by closest time also. So think about it and let us know quickly before Patrick beats us with the release of Slackware 11.

For the first time ever this blog had a “hot post” here at wordpress.com.

A little while after I made that post a bunch of hits started rolling in from stumbleapon. Yay! This blog also got linked from Linux Today, which has generated a nice amount of traffic.

Hopefully, with the impending release of Slackware 11, this blog will only continue to grow in popularity.

If anyone is interested in helping out with this blog, please leave a comment to this post. There’s a lot of stuff I’d like to cover here but simply don’t have the time for. The guy that was helping me out hasn’t been around in a few months. So, would anyone else be interested in contributing to this blog?

If interested, make a comment or email me at tlongren[_at_]gmail[_dot_]com.

I think wordpress.com started having problems almost instantly after I logged into the Dashboard of this blog. Various blogs are returning errors but that’s expected. I remember when gmail was in it’s earlier beta stages, I couldn’t rely on it at all for a total of two weeks or so. But, like I said, that’s to be expected with kick ass new apps like gmail was and wordpress.com is now.

Welcome to the Slackware Blog. I’m excited about this. I can’t yet say wether all the excitement comes from a new blog, a Slackware blog, or just this WordPress install. The WordPress dashboard here at wordpress.com rocks, it’s very beautiful.

I don’t really know how quickly this blog is going to grow, it all depends I guess. I’d like to find someone to co-author this blog with me, but that may prove difficult. There’s no way in hell I can devote as much time to this blog as I do my original and, until today, my only blog.

With Slackware 10.2 recently released, I figure it makes sense to start a Slackware blog. Don’t ask me why that makes sense, cuz I can’t answer that. I’ve got so many ideas for posts, hopefully they stick around till I get em down on paper or into this blog. More tomorrow…