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Slackware Turns 10
Sir_Stinksalot writes "DistroWatch is reporting that Slackware is 10. 'Yes folks, it is exactly 10 years today since the release of Slackware Linux 1.0, complete with a brand new Linux kernel 0.99pl11 Alpha, XFree86 1.3 and even a PS/2 mouse support!' Let's all say happy birthday to Slackware."
Slackware Linux was my first introduction to Linux way back in 1995, when I installed it on my Toshiba 486DX/25 Laptop, though it had reached Kernel 1.2.something by then!
:)
I still prefer slackware to this day, particularly where I need to tweak and change things quickly and easily - it doesn't have any of the "newbie-helper" kruft which the big-brand distro's have, which tends to hinder more than it helps after a while. It is a small, fast, reliable distribution well suited to both Desktop and Server work.
Heck, I still run an old Slack-3 installation on a 486SX/25 with 12MB of RAM, a 250MB HDD, a 120MB HDD and a couple of ISA NIC's as a router, Firewall, Mailserver, Webserver, DNS server and some other odds-and-ends - though it has had a few upgrades (kernel, glibc, etc) over the years, it's still the same basic setup!
Way to go guys...
Keep up the fantastic work...
Disclaimer: I meant what I thought, not what I wrote! What? You can't read my Mind? Oh dear!
OMFG, I didn't realize it was a Gentoo troll until the very end.
Do you get money for every convert, like the baptists?
11:20:29 up 3651 days, 22:40, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.07, 0.02
Unfortunately that can't be linux with it's uptime wrap-around (afaik fixed in resent versions).
fucktard is a tenderhearted description
Evolved?
Bloated.
Calling that 'evolved' would be like saying that Windows was evolved because it came on a 1500 CD set with every damn piece of shareware written for it included.