<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" data-md-url="https://mail.zoho.com/zm/#compose" style="" markdown-here-wrapper-content-modified="true"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">Slackers,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">Several years back I was distro-hopping like a madman. I found that the community of Arch Linux was quite rude, and after trying nearly everything else, I started trying to crack Slackware. It turns out it really agreed with me (from a mindset perspective). I became far more involved in this community than I have in any other distro community.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">Thank you for teaching me so much!</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">Nevertheless, I have been debating this for weeks, but I must do it. I am still using Slackware (and FreeSlack!), but some life changes have happened and I am no longer the maintainer I once was. I do not want the community to suffer.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">I will not include the list of my builds here, but instead will point to this list that I will update as builds are removed:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;"><a href="https://github.com/ryanpcmcquen/ryanpc-slackbuilds/blob/master/README.md">https://github.com/ryanpcmcquen/ryanpc-slackbuilds/blob/master/README.md</a></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">As of today, I am maintaining 171 builds.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">I love this community and know that SBo is something very special, it has been an honor to be a small part of it, and I won’t be disappearing but I will probably remove myself from the mailing lists once enough builds are transferred. I will be available at this email (or <code style="font-size: 0.85em; font-family: Consolas, Inconsolata, Courier, monospace;margin: 0px 0.15em; padding: 0px 0.3em; white-space: pre-wrap; border: 1px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); border-radius: 3px; display: inline;">ryanpcmcquen</code> on IRC) if anyone wants to drop me a line.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">Thank you and take care,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">-Ryan<br>[ryanpcmcquen.org]</p>
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