An Old Hacker Slaps Up Slackware

cdlu writes "What do you get when you mix an old hacker with an old distribution? A good old review of the recently released Slackware 10.2." Joe Barr over at Linux.com (owned by the same company as Slashdot) lays down his thoughts on everything from the install to reliability and user loyalty.

Comments

Old hacker? heck I started on Linux with Yggdrasil

[MrJerryNormandinSir]

Redhat 5.0? I cut my teeth on Yggrassil. An add in Nuts & Volts magazine featured the Yggdrasil release way back. I believe it was 1992. I've been running Linux ever since!

First post for slackers

[Anonymous Coward]

I slacked off, so forgive me since this isn't the true FP.

I thought Slackware was only for leet hackers, so why do they need a HowTo?
Old Hackers don't die
They become a zombie process and have to be kill -9

Mixing hacker with distribution?

[Anonymous Coward]

What do you get when you mix those two?

Um, I get Hacktribution or distribacker.

Re:Mixing hacker with distribution?

[lilmouse]

Hackware.

When your linux distro starts attacking you with a battle axe +4

--LWM

Re:I like Slackware's minimalist approach, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

I love teh lack of any decent package management. There's nothing quite as cool as having to search all over god and creation to find the two dozen other software packages you need to install and configure prior to building the single app you're interested in. Makes you feel like a uber hacker. And by 'uber' I mean retarded.

SLS

[starling]

I'll see your Yggdrasil and raise you Soft Landing Systems on 50 floppies.

Anyone else who's first Linux system was called "darkstar"?

Re:SLS

[starling]

Ah yep. 386DX machine with a whopping 8 megs of RAM, IIRC.

Sounds about right. Ah, the joys of manually calculating X modelines. And the terror of finding out that install disk 44 out of 50 had some bad sectors. [/geezer]

Re:SLS

[wings]

Ah yep. 386DX machine with a whopping 8 megs of RAM, IIRC.

Ah, the joys of manually calculating X modelines.

Eh. You probably even had color displays.;-)

I ran Slackware 3.0 on a 386SX-16 w/4MB RAM with Hercules monochrome video. X windows is real interesting in 720x384 monochrome. Kernel compiles took around 4 hours.

Slackware despair poster

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.arouse.net/despair-linux/slackware.jpg

Re:Another useless "review"

[Anonymous Coward]

Because Linux users are nomadic -- they hop from distro to distro as their current favorite dies out due to the maintainer realizing "Holy crap - I'm not getting anything out of this!" and losing interest. Thus, ease of installation is a very important consideration.

Re:Slackware

[digidave]

Slackware ports have the worst names. Ok, maybe Slackintosh is pretty cool, but Splack sounds like you dropped a slimey thing from a great height.

*blink*

[Xarius]

I read that as "An Old Slapper Slacks up Hackware"

It must be time for coffee...

Re:Seems like a basic review of a basic Linux

[ponds]

Neckbead (n):
See "RMS"

Re:Installed Slack in 1995

[wintermute740]

"My first crash was several weeks later when I ran GnuChess under X on my 486DX2/66 w 8MB RAM, and made my second move... "

That wasn't a crash, it was checkmate ;)

I've been running Slackware since the distro was at version 0.96, which would be what? 1993? Sometimes, I long for the days of hand-configuring everything because there weren't any configutation scripts (that worked reliably) for X or PPP or any number of other things... Fun times :)

win3.1?

[ylikone]

That looks like Trumpet Winsock from the windows 3.1 days. Are you sure that's even a linux screenshot?