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Slackware Turns 10

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Anyone tried it out? by DavidNWelton · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It would be interesting to hear if it still runs, and how it stacks up - "then vs now".

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    1. Re:Anyone tried it out? by Drakker · · Score: 4, Interesting

      The first challenge is to find an archive that still has it.

      I suppose by "does it still run?" that you mean does it run on brand new hardware? I dont know, when you check today's hardware, say, the NForce2, you need kernel 2.4.21 to have everything supported... and it wont even boot with 2.2, so I seriously doubt that slackware 1 would run on anything more recent than a K6 or P2/3 on an old motherboard. Architechtural changes in the Athlon and P4 would probably not be supported.

      Just a guess though, I'd love to be proven wrong. :)

  2. I remember ... by torpor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... when Slackware was released... I think it was by SLS, no, which mean "Soft Landing Systems".

    Of course, happy with my Yggdrasil installation (woohoo, a bootable CD distro - in 1992! With X!) I scoffed at the notion of there being yet *another* Linux distro around.

    Little did I know, 10 years later, that there would be thousands of Linux choices around. Wow.

    Happy birthday Slackware! One of these days, I ought to give you a try ... :)

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  3. my first by shokk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Slackware 0.99blahblah was my first Linux. I had two boxes of 50 floppies that I spent hours downloading and copying at a computer lab at school. All of that fit onto one of the two 100MB partitions on my 200MB disk (the other had Windows 3.0). I still have the boot floppy and every once in a while I pull out the boot floppy to see if it can boot on new hardware. Still works on most!

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  4. Installed on a ZIP disk by luugi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Slackware was my first linux distribution. I used to work at "Bureau en Gros" ( I think it's "Business Depot" in english). I was working in the computer section and this guy ask me about Linux. I thought it was a game at first. But then he told me that it was something new and cool but very complicated. I found the CDs for him in bin. That same day I got myself a copy and wanted to install it on my computer. By then I just thought it was an application. Reading on, I realised that I need a different partition. I read up on it and installed my first Linux system on a 100 Meg zip disk. It was the coolest thing for me. I spent most of my time trying to figure out how to do the simplest things but it was really fun. I had an slow computer at the time ( Pentium 60Hz) and the newer games didn't install on my computer anymore so I had to find myself another way of having fun.

    And now I get paid to program device drivers on Linux!

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  5. Many peoples first by smcavoy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Like many, Slackware was my first distro.
    Oh what hell it was to get it installed, being that I knew very little about hardware.
    Many years later, I laugh at how trivial the setup is now. But had I not had the slackware experience all those years ago, I would probably be a MS monkey, instead of a Linux Geek.

    Thank you Slackware (Patrick and all).