Slackware 12.1 RC2

Yeah, it really depends on your idea of death. It's a going concern, just like a wide variety
of Free Software projects. In point of fact, it's gotten more robust recently (i.e. in the
last two release cycles), because the community stepped in when Pat needed help, and this last
release especially has benefited from not being a Patrick-only labor. We now have updated
booting/install options, we've entered 2.6 finally, grub works, and there's a good set of
package repositories through linuxpackages.net -- this has made packages manageable by
standardizing and making transparent the preferred format in documentation accessible to the
user.

I think it's actually a very good time to be a Slacker.  Our third-party Gnome support is
back, too, through GSB or Dropline.