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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. 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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  2. 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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