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Long-lost Linux Distro is making a Big Comeback
- WalterGR 5y agoThe submitted link appears to be a rehashing of https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/16/slackware_15_beta/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/16/slackware_15_beta/ but with annoying ads and back-button hijacking. Mods, can we get the link changed?
- rijoja 5y agoBrings me back! So tempted to spend the day toying around with Slackware. Is anyone here still using Slackware?
- hulitu 5y agoYep. It is ok as a desktop with fvwm (2). And is close to unix philosophy.
- tunk 5y agoOf course, still runs on some of my servers. Why? Because I know it inside and out, it's simple, I know exactly what is running, when it's running and how it's running.
- rijoja 5y agoGlad to hear. Something to say to know the entirety of the system instead of just going with the trendiest option.
- timonoko 5y agoSlackware is so OLD that it could not play MP3. You had to SOX into them into WAV first. This experience may vary, depending on your machine. 20 MHz machine could not play, 50 Mhz could. Another remarkable point in history was at 300 Mhz, when you could play VHS-quality video.
- rijoja 5y agoSOX is a really good program though.
- mrlonglong 5y agoGood times. I last used slackware when 2.0.27 kernel and GCC. 2.7.2.3 were the latest
- mark_l_watson 5y agoI have a strong emotional connection with Slackware. I downloaded everything except X11 via my family's 2400 baud modem in the early 1990s. I was amazed to have Emacs and the GNU compilers on my own laptop. 6months later I bought all of Slackware on about fifty 3 1/2 inch floppy disks and I was in heaven. At the same time at work, I was building systems on top of SCO Unix, which was good enough but expensive.
- selfhoster11 5y agoCould we add to the title that the distribution in question is Slackware? The current title is clickbait.
- hknapp 5y agoI was hoping it would be Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X
- bdcravens 5y agoSlack was the first distro I installed, around 1998 - stack of floppies and all.
- MR4D 5y agoThe source article for this TexhRadar repost is the The Register [0] which has a much less of a clickbait title, “ Oh hello. Haven't heard much from you lately: Linux veteran Slackware rides again with a beta of version 15”. [0] - https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/16/slackware_15_beta/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/16/slackware_15_beta/