what I'm about to talk about now, which is SlackBuilds.org. SlackBuilds.org is a website where people, like you and me, can write little install scripts for software that you use, and then you just post the install script to SlackBuilds.org so that other users can use your same script to build the same application but on their system. It's a really, really beautiful system, and I think it's one of the correct ways, the most Unix way, to distribute software. That is, I think it's the correct way to distribute a recipe rather than an image. And that's what I've been saying for years about distributions, too. I don't really see the point of Linux distributions in a way, or at least not the remixes of distributions. You see the latest cool Linux distro, but the multimedia edition, or the gamer edition, or the pen testing edition. And they ship entire images, which to me always seemed puzzling, because it seems like if you're producing a variant of something that exists in a Unix world, (5/54)
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