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"Overcoming inertia is paramount before the movement of a given object can occur. An object at rest would rather stay at rest, while an object in motion exhibits a tendency to remain that way.

Self confessed deadhead Patrick Volkerding's Slackware Linux distribution is no exception to that rule, and mere moments following the release of his latest stable release of the oldest extant Linux distribution on the planet, ISPs were complaining, gearheads were leeching, and Slackware zealots the world over were intimately re-acquainted with the term, "melt down" - popularized in the movie "China Syndrome", so many years ago.

Slackware Linux was one of the first popular free software projects to champion and encourage the use of BitTorrent technology as a method of sharing and distributing itself, yet we haven't seen anything like this since Tommy Lee and Pamela's missing video tape was found - on the net...
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