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  • Bradley D. Thornton
    Bradley D. Thornton    Group moderator
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    Just got Slackware Linux group off the ground. Come on in the waters fine!
    Hello everyone, I started setting up my profile a while back, having become somewhat disappointed with the myspace/facebook like mess that Linkedin has become. I'm actually wating for them to start providing support for mafia wars and farmville over there - it's almost gotten to be that bad.

    I've had my Xing account for a while, but hadn't really done anything with it, and to tell the truth, I was quite unaware of how large the community actually is here.

    So once I got my profile set just so..., well, it's still not completely there yet, but are they ever?

    Anyway, i went looking for a few groups to join, that meet my interests in the community.

    I was astonished when I didn't see a Group for Slackware Linux - anywhere!

    Slackware, the oldest Linux Distro! not one group dedicated to it, even with it's huge following and base of supporters.

    Amazing! I thought. Well, something had to be done about that!

    Let me know what you think okay?

    Well I hope that helps :)

    Kindest regards,

    Bradley
    http://bit.ly/slacktime

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    • 31 May 2011, 11:06 am
  • Bradley D. Thornton
    Bradley D. Thornton    Group moderator
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    UPDATE: Slackware Linux group here at Xing. New members are welcome.
    I have an update for you on the Slackware Linux group here at Xing!

    The direct link is: http://Xing.com/net/slackware

    Anyone with an interest in Open Source technologies, Linux, and Personal or Enterprise computing in general is welcome and encouraged to join.

    We intend on providing the most in purely Slackware specific, Linux in general, and FOSS related events for our announcement calendars, and boy... we could sure use some help getting the group off the ground too :)

    I know that many of you here use Slackware everyday, either as your workstation, or when you require a rock solid enterprise base for high availability.

    The slackware Linux Team works hard to keep all software as vanilla and unpatched as possible - the way the upstream developers intended their software to be distributed, and to a large degree, that accounts for Slackware's legendary performance and stability.

    We've only just begun as far as building the group is concerned, but one thing we can do right off the bat is to provide a place here at Xing where people can go to for quick pointers to Open Source Slackware resources, be it mirrors, HowTos, Tutorials, and even support questions.

    We even maintain an RSS feed in the group for the official Slackware support forums, so you can see what's going on with just a glance at any given moment.

    The official invite link we've been provided with by Xing to share with you all is:

    http://www.xing.com/group-66679.367f01

    Once again, anyone with an interest in personal or enterprise computing is welcome to join, and I look forward to personally welcoming you once you arrive.
    • 05 Jun 2011, 09:44 am