10月25日,TechShow网站访问了Patrick Volkerding,访问录音时间约90分钟,可以在网站的Downloads对话框内选择Episode #164 on 10-25-06进入下载页面,有ogg格式(约35M)和mp3格式(约30M)供选择。
访谈的大致内容(按时间顺序)如下:
#164 - 10/25/2006 - total running time 129:36
1:13 - intro (the big show!)
1:36 - Patrick Volkerding, creator of Slackware is our guest tonight
1:50 - Pat V. does some shout outs to the unofficial Slackware team
3:45 - Slackware is the oldest surviving distro, based on SLS Linux originally
6:22 - what was Pat V.'s first computer?, how Pat first heard of Linux
12:11 - early Linux distros, anyone ever try to buy Slackware?
14:10 - Pat V. likes to leave the packages in Slackware as vanilla as possible
18:12 - Slackware uses libmad to support mp3 playback out of the box, Pat likes open codecs
23:00 - Slackware package manager that does dependency checking?
28:30 - status of swaret and slapt-get?, alternate repositories of packages
32:40 - Pat V. considers Dropline as a fork of Slackware
34:30 - when will 2.6 be the default Slackware kernel, linuxquestions is the default forum for Slack
42:20 - Pat V. talks about udev, new things in Slackware 11
47:30 - eye candy for Slack in the future? Slackware for AMD64?
51:55 - will Pat V. ever hand over the lead of the Slackware project to someone else?
55:00 - use Slackware if you want to learn Linux, Slackware on both the server and desktop
59:40 - Apache 2 on Slackware?, other distros pushing on the desktop
66:10 - Pat V. talks about BSD, do you work on Slackware full time?
71:50 - what Pat likes to do in his spare time
79:40 - Vi or Emacs?, What distro do you run?, Slackware for the whole family, geek love
85:10 - Pat gives his thoughts on GPLv3