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Re: Slackware 15.0

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Post by beermonster »

dangrossman wrote: post #16

Slackware 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.

Well done you for not letting that bad experience put you off.

Did you re-install and continue with Slackware after that?

Re: Slackware 15.0

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Post by beermonster »

rfrey wrote: post #25
dangrossman wrote: post #16

Slackware 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.

That's horrible. I hope that person is working tech support for Comcast now.

Or is an Oracle DBA

Re: Slackware 15.0

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Post by nopcode »

igetspam wrote: post #126

It's amazing to see how many of us had Slackware as our first distro. I remember meeting Patrick when I was in high school, at Linux World Expo. Every just (barely) worked (kinda... except printing...) I mirrored current religiously for over a decade and used to hand out ISOs to friends. All through my Google years, until I just couldn't hammer it into enough shape to keep the auth working on the corp network any mor…

It was my first distro back in 2009, I was 15.

Back then Slack was the most recommended distro "if you really want to learn linux".

Re: Slackware 15.0

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

paisawalla wrote: post #96
40four wrote: post #45

I’ve already seen countless comments about Slackware being a lot of folks first Linux distro. For someone like me who didn’t get into programming until the last 5 years or so, can you guys explain what was it about Slackware, that was so appealing or inviting to new users? As a primarily Ubuntu user in my time, was part of it that the Linux landscape was much less mature back then? Was it the principals/ ethos that t…

Slackware was themed after the Church of the Subgenius, which is a satirical religion and online movement about "slack" as a cosmic force. It came from a time when software projects could be more whimsical and show some character. It's almost impossible to imagine a software project today expressing any kind of off-topic flair, or really be eccentric in that kind of way. There's hardly anything like it today, but the…

Don't forget RebeccaBlackOS, which apparently somehow managed to actually be somewhat technically interesting by defaulting to Wayland before that was a thing normal distros did.

https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=rebecc...

Re: Slackware 15.0

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Post by shrikant »

Nice to see Slackware still going strong.

Like many around these parts, Slackware was my second Linux distribution, after I decided that Red Hat 5.2 was too mainstream for me.

One of my favourite things about Slackware was the installer that showed a couple of paragraphs of trivia about what packages were getting installed. I learned so much about the people that made these amazing things possible. (Larry Wall! John Ousterhout! Roland McGrath! Ulrich Drepper!)

Re: Slackware 15.0

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Post by pc2g4d »

ZipSlack took forever to download, but opened my eyes to a whole new world.

Glad to see Slackware is still going. Thanks for your pioneering work.

Re: Slackware 15.0

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Post by stockerta »

I used slackware while in university for quite a while. Not my first distro, that was Suse (and I still use it today), but there is something about slackware I still love. Maybe if IT would still be only a hobby for me and not my day job I would use it. But when I'm off from work I don't wanna mess much. Tumbleweed is enough for me on my old laptop.

Re: Slackware 15.0

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Post by 2b3a51 »

scabros wrote: post #105

I read HN regularly since a couple of years, but registered just for this comment. My first GNU/Linux distro, but in early 2000. I have great memories from that time, it was "harder" but very rewarding. The best example of less is more. Today I'm using Devuan to escape from systemd, and I think I'll give Slackware 15 a try <3

I've been using Slackware on a laptop since around 2014, the 14.1 release days. The default (i.e full) install contains almost everything I need. I just add LibreOffice and R/RStudio and Octave and a few bits and pieces - nearly all available pre-compiled.

As another post has pointed out, if you decide to try Slackware 15.0 your previous knowledge will be mostly reusable (but slackpkg makes updating the base easier).

Re: Slackware 15.0

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Post by cyberpunk »

joemazerino wrote: post #50
dangrossman wrote: post #16

Slackware 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.

I love this story only because you must be me. BitchX wasn't the most secure was it?

Ahh, the old /shitlist days. I miss that splash screen!

Re: Slackware 15.0

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Post by sandermvanvliet »

ww520 wrote: post #119
dangrossman wrote: post #16

Slackware 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.

Should tell him the host address is 127.0.0.1.

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