July 21 2014 Slackware at 21 and snooping (again)
David S celebrated Slackware’s 21st birthday with a slide presentation in which he pointed out that, among other things, it:
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has maintained more of BSD’s traditions
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continues to flourish without a major backer
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is simple to install — all dependencies in the core distro have been satisfied
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is compiled for reliability
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has a Core Team, mostly of volunteers
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has support provided by LinuxQuestions.org
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has community repositories hosted on SlackBuilds.org
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has a documentation project.
He concluded by asking ‘21 years and still not tried it? What are you waiting for?’
After a request for an item on Docker containers and a discussion of the current state of the software being used by BCB …
David S took us on a tour of the documentation for the JTRIG tools used by GCHQ. Among the points he made were that:
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they use MediaWiki
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they use TOR
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if you put a lot of the tool names in the urban dictionary, you find they are extremely rude
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they use Microsoft Excel to deliver trojans to computers.