Amazing project. My first serious Linux distro. Good for Patrick and the rest of the community.
Slackware 15.0
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Re: Slackware 15.0
#12I've been using Linux for ~25 and have never tried Slack. I'm now on Slack/Manjaro, should I try it?
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#13My first Linux install was a Slackware 3.5 from a cdrom magazine, but I’ve dropped Slackware in 2006 when they ditched gnome in favor of KDE.
I still remember the emotion when I managed to get the system to boot and startx
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#14My first Linux install was a Slackware 3.5 from a cdrom magazine, but I’ve dropped Slackware in 2006 when they ditched gnome in favor of KDE. I still remember the emotion when I managed to get the system to boot and startx
I bought the Slackware CD from a local MicroCenter and used it as the email server for my ISP (running qmail) in 1996.
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#15If someone was choosing a Linux distro today, what would be some reasons to choose Slackware rather than another popular distro like Ubuntu, Fedora, or Arch?
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#16Slackware was my first Linux too. I remember making the installation floppy disk set. And then it was my first introduction to running a computer others could remotely control. After learning how to dial up AOL from Linux then join an IRC chat room, I was immediately "pwned" by someone in that chat room who guessed my root password and rm -rf /'d my entire hard drive. I was probably 8 or 9 at the time and cried.
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#17I had to go back and check, the first version I installed was 3.0. I'm guessing a lot of us started our Linux journey on early Slackware floppy installs.
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#18first linux. slackware 3.6 for me. felt like such an achievement once it booted
./configure; make; make install everything
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#19My first Linux install was a Slackware 3.5 from a cdrom magazine, but I’ve dropped Slackware in 2006 when they ditched gnome in favor of KDE. I still remember the emotion when I managed to get the system to boot and startx
I had the same joy after installing it from a stack of floppy disks in the late '90s. It took so long but it was so satisfying when it worked!
Re: Slackware 15.0
#20The previous release was 14.2 and it happened on 2016-06-30. It was on 4.4 kernel.
And kernel 4.4's upstream EOL was two days ago. Talk about timing.
I suspect that might have been a driving factor because of course they knew the date was fast approaching. However it isn't that hard to build a new kernel in slackware anyway, it sticks pretty close to Vanilla kernel the way it's built.