User talk:RSKYS

Changes Containing Unofficial Information to Slackware's Article
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I am the one who undid your original edit and indeed, I am reverting your new edits as well (you can click on the history tab in the top right portion of the page to view any previous changes with an article).

The Slackware wikipedia page is used to document official information on the project. Slackware Live is not developed by Patrick Volkerding and, as far as I know, is not considered an official version of Slackware by Volkerding (if it is, we could then update the page to show that, but we would need to have a reference to link to showing Pat has declared that work official). Slackware Live is the (excellent) work of Eric Hameleers (aka Alien Bob). However, because it is not official, we should not be updating information on the Slackware page with screenshots or UIs to show information from unofficial projects as this gives users a false expectation of what they can expect from an official Slackware ISO. The ISO you download from official mirrors has a default UI of the CLI with bash. It will not boot up into Plasma5 or XFCE and won't give any options to select MATE or Cinnamon. The screenshot also gives the false impression that 14.2 includes Plasma5 in it, which it was stuck with KDE4 (since it shows 14.2 on there, but is running Plasma5). This was likely taken from a version of -current before Volkerding decided to switch the version listed in -current to 14.2+ instead of just 14.2.

If desired, I suppose a new section of the Slackware article could be created to talk about Slackware Live, but it would need to be listed as unofficial and ensure there are enough citations/references to back up the information added to that section as we don't want a bunch of to pop up on the section). This is not something I have the time or desire to tackle right now, but if someone else were to put forth the effort, I'm sure it would be welcome addition to the article.

Let me know if you have any additional questions! --Bassmadrigal (talk) 20:44, 2 November 2021 (UTC)