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Alien Pastures
Personal blog · alien.slackbook.org/blogsystemsprogramming
Alien Pastures is a personal blog at alien.slackbook.org about systems and programming. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Slackware Live Edition”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for Slackware packaging and news, such as Alienbob's recent KDE compilations for Slackware and the 2020 introduction of PAM in Slackware. The comments cite its posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Slackware Live Edition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-21
What Hacker News says?
Slackware is, and most of its derivatives like SalixOS. The mainline comes with older KDE version: 4.8.5 -- but a longtime contributor, Alienbob, provides recent compilations at http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/kde-releases-4-9-3/
Comment linking /blog/kde-releases-4-9-3/
on “15 years of KDE e.V.”Submitted Slackware Live Edition as a story · 71 points
HN discussionI remember when I was in school (about 15 years ago) Slackware was one of the few distro's that didn't have PAM and they made a big point of it. So I did a quick Google just now and found that this year (2020) even Slackware got PAM [1]. Had a good chuckle over that. [1] https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/slackware-introduces-pam-in...
Comment linking /blog/slackware-introduces-pam-into-its-core/
on “Pam 1.5.0 has a auth bypass under some conditions”Submitted Kernel 5.13 went into Slackware-current; new Live ISOs to celebrate as a story · 16 points
HN discussionMaybe I'm just wired differently, but I have found OpenBSD to be the easiest to latch on to by far. It has the simplest installer and sanest defaults (again in my own opinion) of all the BSDs, and it's the most similar to Slackware that I've found as well. Its only downsides for me have been hardware compatibility and speed/responsiveness as a desktop OS. > Slackware will keep chugging along, though, as always. Inde…
Comment linking /blog/slackware-live-edition/
on “BUS1: A new Linux kernel IPC bus being made by systemd developers”Submitted How to 'un-Google' your Chromium browser experience as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slackware 15.0 Alpha1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Calculating PI with bc as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slackware Cloud Server Series, Episode 1: Managing Your Docker Infrastructure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prominent contributor to Slackware laid off from his (unrelated) job as a story · 1 points
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