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http://www.slackware.com/ is probably the biggest website I'm aware of that does not serve encrypted traffic[1]. but there are a few other legitimately useful resources that don't encrypt.

[1] (Except on the arm subdomain for some reason)



My first distro was Slackware. Good memories. The ARM subdomain looks drastically more maintained, posts from 2025.

Don't ever view source on slackware.com


It's a much nicer source to read than those javascript generated doms with 1,200 classes per tag.


Don't ever view source on slackware.com

Awwww, that's the stuff right there.


> Don't ever view source on slackware.com

That's very 90s looking HTML. Large swathes of blank spaces may also indicate they're rendered somehow. PHP? CGI?

Confusingly it also sets an akamai cookie, `ak_bmsc`. Seems a bit out of place.


> Don't ever view source on slackware.com

why ?




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