Also, I prefer to stay as up-to-date as possible.įortunately, there is a way to install a fully-functional, latest-greatest, LibreOffice on our Slackware 15.0 computers and use it. Remember that Slackware is a relatively small all-volunteer project, like OpenBSD. The reality is that those aren't always updated to the latest versions of applications, given time constraints.
I realize that nowadays there are "Slackbuilds", analogous to BSD's "Packages" collection, and the people who maintain those are definitely to be thanked and appreciated (and I do). That still leaves us "Slackers" out in the cold, though. This choice by the LibreOffice developers is quite understandable, as Red Hat- and Debian-based distros are by far the dominant presence on personal computers. Also, the binary packages from LibreOffice come in RPM and DEB format. I suspect this may also be true for LibreOffice. This is speculation on my part, but several years ago, Patrick Volkerding stopped including GNOME because it was too much of a pain to package and distribute for a project that doesn't have the resources of Red Hat, Debian, or Ubuntu. Sadly, Slackware didn't include back then, and it doesn't include LibreOffice now.
GNU/Linux, the BSD's) on general-purpose business computers possible. It is this office productivity suite that really makes using Free Software platforms (e. was the ticket back then even in its Beta Build 638c days (yes, I've been using it for a long time!), and the tradition continues today, 21 years later with today's LibreOffice. To do so, I needed something compatible with Microsoft Office file formats. Yes, it can be done, and it can be done well. I've even used Slackware at work in a "Microsoft shop". When Slackware 15.0 came out in February 2022, I celebrated like other "Slackers", and I'd been running the beta and release candidates (the then-"Slackware-current") since early 2021.
"KISS" means, "Keep It Simple, Stupid!", and that's what the Slackware team has done since the distribution's inception. The reason is that it embodies the "KISS" method of designing a distribution. Slackware has been one of my favorite GNU/Linux distributions for a very long time, especially since Version 8.0 came out, many moons back.
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