New Slackware-related resource
Mikhail Zotov
I have just read on DistroWatch about this resource:
"
Slackfind is a nonprofit project which stores metadata and provides
search tools for slackware-packages across various repositories. The
project idea has been taken from rpmfind.net, a similar project for
rpm-based distributions.
Project objectives:
* Make Slackware easier to use and increase popularity
* Centralize package metadata
* Improve package quantity as well as quality
"
I have tried it with a few queries and everything worked fine.
A real surprise for me is that the project is developed in
Irkutsk <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irkutsk>.
--
Mikhail
Loki Harfagr
> A real surprise for me is that the project is developed in Irkutsk
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irkutsk>.
why such a surprise? A cplace where the temperature amplitude
is around 100°C MUST be a real cooker ;-)
Mikhail Zotov
Loki Harfagr <l0...@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> wrote:
Not 100°C yet but 87°C only :-) If your hypothesis is true, this
must be the only reason of why the Silicon Valley isn't in the suburbs
of Irkutsk yet :-)
--
Mikhail
Beej Jorgensen
>http://slackfind.net/en/
Ohhh, this is bitchin'! (International translation: "really good")
This might encourage people to start their own repos, too.
Looks like getting the slackbuilds repos in there is on the radar,
though it's not baked in yet:
# For the time being we don't know what to do with new mirrors and
# slackbuilds repositories. =)
Nevertheless, good work to all the guys involved!
-Beej
Mark Madsen
Higher population density and wealth correlate with innovation. Hence
Silicon Valley. Long winters and long nights correlate with a lot of
coding time. Hence Irkutsk. QED.
notbob
> Higher population density and wealth correlate with innovation. Hence
> Silicon Valley.
Been to Silicon Valley, lately? It's a ghost town. They wealthed themselves
right out of existence.
nb
Helmut Hullen
Du meintest am 09.02.09:
> Mikhail Zotov <invalid...@lenta.ru> wrote:
>> http://slackfind.net/en/
> Ohhh, this is bitchin'! (International translation: "really good")
> This might encourage people to start their own repos, too.
I've just looked into the "rsnapshot" tarball.
It's really old (1.2.1; the actual source version is 1.3.1 or 1.3.2).
The creator of the tarball is not named anywhere - not good.
Viele Gruesse
Helmut
"Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".
Mark Madsen
How recently would you consider to be "lately" - last week, last month,
last century? And you see anything in what I wrote that claims that
Silicon Valley is as it has always been?
And to give a partial answer to your question, I have successfully
managed to avoid going to the US for quite a long time now.
notbob
> How recently would you consider to be "lately" - last week, last month,
> last century? And you see anything in what I wrote that claims that
> Silicon Valley is as it has always been?
I worked there for 15 yrs back in its heyday, but was down in its heart
about 2-1/2 yrs ago. Scared the crap outta me. What was once a manic
anthill of activity with stop and go traffic and around the clock insanity
was then nearly desserted. Empty thoroughfares, empty campuses, and closed
restaurants and support business. Miles of vacant buildings, many newly
built just before the dot-com crash and never ever occupied.
It reminded me of the one Thanksgiving Day I spent in the SV (I lived there
one year) and it was like one of those scifi movies where a person wakes up
to find he's the only person left on Earth. Well, it's like that now,
only now it's every day.
There was somewhat of a bio-med industry mini boom, but most of it rejected
the high rents of SV and located North from Fremont to Emeryville. It will
be interesting to see what will happen to all that specialized real estate,
now that the US has lost almost all of its manufacturing and is in a major
economic crisis. I doubt the situation has changed much since I last saw
it. Truly a grim statement of how low the US has allowed itself to fall in
pursuit of the bottom line.
nb
Loki Harfagr
> On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:47:02 +0000, notbob wrote:
>
>> On 2009-02-09, Mark Madsen <mark.s.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Higher population density and wealth correlate with innovation. Hence
>>> Silicon Valley.
>>
>> Been to Silicon Valley, lately? It's a ghost town. They wealthed
>> themselves right out of existence.
Interesting, maybe I'll be able to approach the zone now!
> How recently would you consider to be "lately" - last week, last month,
> last century?
my last time there was Trias, I heard the place lost some standing since.
> And you see anything in what I wrote that claims that
> Silicon Valley is as it has always been?
>
> And to give a partial answer to your question, I have successfully
> managed to avoid going to the US for quite a long time now.
Working for the USO ?-D)
Oh well, I know, slackware group, yes, but there's even a
hockey lounge in some other thread, then... ;-)
Mark Madsen
> Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:34:57 +0100, Mark Madsen did cat :
>
>> On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:47:02 +0000, notbob wrote:
>>
>>> On 2009-02-09, Mark Madsen <mark.s.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Higher population density and wealth correlate with innovation.
>>>> Hence Silicon Valley.
>>>
>>> Been to Silicon Valley, lately? It's a ghost town. They wealthed
>>> themselves right out of existence.
>
> Interesting, maybe I'll be able to approach the zone now!
LOL. Except there may no longer be any reason to go there....
>> How recently would you consider to be "lately" - last week, last month,
>> last century?
>
> my last time there was Trias, I heard the place lost some standing
> since.
Thinking back I realise that I haven't been for 10 years. Still, may be
having a lunch party there in a couple months, maybe it's time?
>> And you see anything in what I wrote that claims that
>> Silicon Valley is as it has always been?
>>
>> And to give a partial answer to your question, I have successfully
>> managed to avoid going to the US for quite a long time now.
>
> Working for the USO ?-D)
Staying this side of the Atlantic ;-)
> Oh well, I know, slackware group, yes, but there's even a hockey lounge
> in some other thread, then... ;-)
It's AOLS. OT is what we do best.
Beej Jorgensen
>I've just looked into the "rsnapshot" tarball.
>It's really old (1.2.1; the actual source version is 1.3.1 or 1.3.2).
>The creator of the tarball is not named anywhere - not good.
No better time than the present to build one up and put it on a repo,
then! :)
This isn't a problem with the search tool--this is a problem with a
user-supported package not being supported by any users.
But I agree that it's annoying you can't find the author to get a
Slackbuild script to start with or contact him to encourage an update.
The approach encouraged by this slackfind site is that there can be
several "maintainers" of a package, and the person using slackfind can
choose the package he wants.
-Beej