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Slackware 3.0 was my first distro, in probably 1995. I'm very curious what modern Slackware is like in practice, given their philosophy and guidance listed in

Slackware 3.0 was my first distro, in probably 1995. I'm very curious what modern Slackware is like in practice, given their philosophy and guidance listed in http://www.slackware.com/info/ http://www.slackware.com/info/

throwaway47292 5y ago
It was 3.6 for me, I still miss it. To be honest, I have been completely overwhelmed by the modern web, ads and cookie warnings are just giving me anxiety, and I mean real physical anxiety. I will go back to my roots, my tty only experience is getting better and better[1]. When I patched the kernel to make the cursor non blinking block, I got such joy, I felt I was a kid again. Great news that slack is still around! It gives me hope. [1] https://dev.to/jackdoe/tty-only-1ijn https://dev.to/jackdoe/tty-only-1ijn
bdcravens 5y ago
Don't remember the version, but it was mine as well, around 1998. I still remember setting up all the feature-specific floppies.
silisili 5y ago
Slack was also my first. Amazed to see Pat still at it given all the time that's passed. I'm curious to know how many out there still use slack? I can't say I have in a solid 15-20 years.
- bstamour 5y ago
  I still use it on my primary desktop computer at home. It's a great, stable system that just keeps on running and doing what it needs to do.
- t3lp3r10n 5y ago
  I still use it on the computer room of our physics department (around 30 PCs). Slackware is the only distro stable enough to perform excellent on this heterogenous machines mix where some computers could be ten years old. I use a golden image, created and set up with packer and some scripts, and image it using clonezilla.
  - efficax 5y ago
    Surely debian would be fine on it, i even run fedora on a few 10 to 12 year old machines (heck ten years ago you already had Intel core chips)
cyphax 5y ago
In practice, it is largely like other similar distributions. I've been running Slackware for many years, but the wait for 15 was too long for me so I installed Arch Linux out of curiousity, and found there's a lot of similarities between the "core" repository and user repositories (AUR and Slackbuilds) and how complete they are. For me, the hardest part of this switch was systemd actually. Otherwise it's mostly using the same software (DE, browser, etc).
shmoe 5y ago
dude.. me too.. imaging the rainbow boot disk. Or was it color? now I have to check :P
_trampeltier 5y ago
Also Slackware 3.0 here. It was on a CD on my first Linux book. 95 or 96 i also would guess.
- smhenderson 5y ago
  I think we had the same book. I remember laughing out loud when I read on the back "Dyslexics of the world, untie!" I still run Slack today, by far my favorite distro; as they say the most *nix-like distro
dmitryminkovsky 5y ago
Same here, though probably 1996 or 1997 and on a 486 we got somewhere for free. I made install floppies. I never did get XFree86 configured, unfortunately :(. But it was awesome to install Linux and play around with it.

throwaway47292 5y ago

It was 3.6 for me, I still miss it. To be honest, I have been completely overwhelmed by the modern web, ads and cookie warnings are just giving me anxiety, and I mean real physical anxiety. I will go back to my roots, my tty only experience is getting better and better[1]. When I patched the kernel to make the cursor non blinking block, I got such joy, I felt I was a kid again. Great news that slack is still around! It gives me hope. [1] https://dev.to/jackdoe/tty-only-1ijn https://dev.to/jackdoe/tty-only-1ijn

bdcravens 5y ago

Don't remember the version, but it was mine as well, around 1998. I still remember setting up all the feature-specific floppies.

silisili 5y ago

Slack was also my first. Amazed to see Pat still at it given all the time that's passed. I'm curious to know how many out there still use slack? I can't say I have in a solid 15-20 years.

bstamour 5y ago
I still use it on my primary desktop computer at home. It's a great, stable system that just keeps on running and doing what it needs to do.
t3lp3r10n 5y ago
I still use it on the computer room of our physics department (around 30 PCs). Slackware is the only distro stable enough to perform excellent on this heterogenous machines mix where some computers could be ten years old. I use a golden image, created and set up with packer and some scripts, and image it using clonezilla.
- efficax 5y ago
  Surely debian would be fine on it, i even run fedora on a few 10 to 12 year old machines (heck ten years ago you already had Intel core chips)

cyphax 5y ago

In practice, it is largely like other similar distributions. I've been running Slackware for many years, but the wait for 15 was too long for me so I installed Arch Linux out of curiousity, and found there's a lot of similarities between the "core" repository and user repositories (AUR and Slackbuilds) and how complete they are. For me, the hardest part of this switch was systemd actually. Otherwise it's mostly using the same software (DE, browser, etc).

shmoe 5y ago

dude.. me too.. imaging the rainbow boot disk. Or was it color? now I have to check :P

_trampeltier 5y ago

Also Slackware 3.0 here. It was on a CD on my first Linux book. 95 or 96 i also would guess.

smhenderson 5y ago
I think we had the same book. I remember laughing out loud when I read on the back "Dyslexics of the world, untie!" I still run Slack today, by far my favorite distro; as they say the most *nix-like distro

dmitryminkovsky 5y ago

Same here, though probably 1996 or 1997 and on a 486 we got somewhere for free. I made install floppies. I never did get XFree86 configured, unfortunately :(. But it was awesome to install Linux and play around with it.