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Slackware was my first experience with Linux. So long ago now, I am 31 now but was 12 when I was first shown Linux and I was hooked from there. Like most I have

Slackware was my first experience with Linux. So long ago now, I am 31 now but was 12 when I was first shown Linux and I was hooked from there. Like most I have been around the block with many different Linux distros over the years, even a scary few years doing stage 1 Gentoo. I will always be fond of Slack though. Patrick and his work will always have a very special place in my life, I do not doubt I would have gone into technology anyway (seems to be in my DNA) but Patrick and Slackware was such a huge part of what I first remember of truly learning. Sorry this post is a little off-topic, it is Sunday afternoon and I guess I am feeling sentimental or something ;)

sigzero 11y ago
Nah that's cool. I started with Slackware 0.98 as my first distro. We've come a long long long way baby.
Roboprog 11y ago
I was "a bit" older when I picked up a copy of Slackware back in '95. I was working doing C development on a number of *nix and other platforms (most of which are gone now), and needed something better for working from home than a 16 bit compiler on MS-DOS. Slackware felt MUCH more powerful than the SCO x86 OS we had at work, and having a desktop GUI was just gravy, rather than worrying about anything being "ready for the desktop".
- Roboprog 11y ago
  Delicious irony 20 years later: the mobile era. Apple, yet again, makes really good devices. However, the most numerous devices are now Linux/Android. Now we have to ask "Is Microsoft ready for mobile", but it's too late, and the answer is "nobody cares". God, it feels so good to watch Linux kick the crap out of MS, after all those years of putting up with their slow/buggy OS's and development torment-ware.
  - jmnicolas 11y ago
    Well yes but my Android phone (Nexus 4) really feels like Windows 98 though : security is an illusion and it crashes (reboot) for no apparent reason (I believe it doesn't like to be put in Airplane Mode while I sleep). Let's not talk about my desktop Linux experience which is not stellar either. Honestly if it weren't for the telemetry updates I'd be a happy Windows user. I didn't mention Apple since I can't afford what they think people should pay for their devices.

sigzero 11y ago

Nah that's cool. I started with Slackware 0.98 as my first distro. We've come a long long long way baby.

Roboprog 11y ago

I was "a bit" older when I picked up a copy of Slackware back in '95. I was working doing C development on a number of *nix and other platforms (most of which are gone now), and needed something better for working from home than a 16 bit compiler on MS-DOS. Slackware felt MUCH more powerful than the SCO x86 OS we had at work, and having a desktop GUI was just gravy, rather than worrying about anything being "ready for the desktop".

Roboprog 11y ago
Delicious irony 20 years later: the mobile era. Apple, yet again, makes really good devices. However, the most numerous devices are now Linux/Android. Now we have to ask "Is Microsoft ready for mobile", but it's too late, and the answer is "nobody cares". God, it feels so good to watch Linux kick the crap out of MS, after all those years of putting up with their slow/buggy OS's and development torment-ware.
- jmnicolas 11y ago
  Well yes but my Android phone (Nexus 4) really feels like Windows 98 though : security is an illusion and it crashes (reboot) for no apparent reason (I believe it doesn't like to be put in Airplane Mode while I sleep). Let's not talk about my desktop Linux experience which is not stellar either. Honestly if it weren't for the telemetry updates I'd be a happy Windows user. I didn't mention Apple since I can't afford what they think people should pay for their devices.