"The machine is a Pentium III, 600 MHz, with 512 megabytes of RAM. It runs (of course) Slackware Linux, and does an efficient and reliable job even with moderat

"The machine is a Pentium III, 600 MHz, with 512 megabytes of RAM. It runs (of course) Slackware Linux, and does an efficient and reliable job even with moderately old hardware. The slackware.com site has been known to run for well over a year without a reboot." Dogfooding the Web site. I learned quite a lot from zipslack, a live distro booted from an Iomega Zip disk. Edit:http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/interviews-28/interview-with-patrick-volkerding-of-slackware-949029/ http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/interviews-28/interv... Some historical stuff