Slackware Turns 10

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Posted by michael on Thursday July 17, 2003 @03:19AM from the that's-a-lot-of-slack dept.

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."

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Re:First Release Annoucement by elefantstn · 2003-07-17 03:22 · Score: 5, Funny

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WHAT? SLACKWARE 10?!? by strredwolf · 2003-07-17 03:23 · Score: 5, Funny

ALREADY?!?!? Geesh oh wiz, I got to upgrade *AGAIN*?!?!?

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Okay for retro purposes by Jack+Wagner · 2003-07-17 03:25 · Score: 5, Funny

I can't, in good faith, offer slackwear up as an option to any of my clients though. They need a world class installation and they need cutting edge features like Gnome 2.2 and Mozilla 1.4.
Sure, slack is fun to dink around with and it's nice for a sense of history and all that but today as a business about the only distro I can quote out is Linux 9.0. In todays market customers want support and they want to see a product comes in a box with decals and installation books. Fortuen 500 companies don't really care about the "cool" factor.
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bash# w by Trigun · 2003-07-17 03:25 · Score: 5, Funny

11:20:29 up 3651 days, 22:40, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.07, 0.02
Good reusable announcement by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2003-07-17 03:27 · Score: 5, Funny

From the initial Slackware release announcement :

There are two main disk series, A (13 disks) and X (11 disks).

In a not-so-distant future, Linux distros will also come on 13 disks. Only not on floppy disks. That's how much GNU/Linux has evolved since the early days ...

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Re:First Release Annoucement by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-17 03:28 · Score: 5, Funny

mailx, quota utilities, experimental winapi source, sound drivers.

Wine, is that you? Oh man, remember that crazy summer of 1993?!
My First Time... by nfdavenport · 2003-07-17 03:33 · Score: 5, Funny

I remember my first time with slackware way back when in college. I couldn't download it, because I needed to get linux up and running in the first place so I could dial-up to the CS modem pool and PPP. So I went the bookstore, bought a huge stack of floppies and tried 3 times to copy all the distro disks before I got it right - back and forth all day to campus.

Problem was I was copying *.* instead of * to the each floppy having come from a DOS background. That wasn't nearly as bad as blowing my $800 monitor the next day trying to setup X timings. Ahh, the good old days.
Re:Ironically.... by Trigun · 2003-07-17 03:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Ahh, we all remember our firsts don't we?

Unfortunately, this is turning more and more into a high-school reunion. My first was Sally Henderson.

So was mine!
Me too!
Over here!

I'm going to shower now. I feel sick.
Re:Anyone tried it out? by The+Phantom+Buffalo · 2003-07-17 04:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Disclaimer: I don't know how to spell
Your math isn't that great either.