Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
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Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
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Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#2That was my first exposure to Linux in 1995. I remember downloading 30-something floppy disks over a painfully slow T1. I deployed our company's sendmail email server a few months later, running on an old PC. In 2006 I switched to Linux as my daily driver and if I need windows these days, it runs as a VM.
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#3Congratulations on the 30th
I am posting this from Slackware 15.0 right now, my main driver, but I do boot a BSD once in a while. If not for Slackware, I would have left Linux for a BSD years ago.
I hope Slackware can avoid all what I believe are crazy changes occurring in Linux Land. Already Slackware was forced to import PAM, but in good Slackware fashion PAM stays out of my way, so not a big deal.
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#4That was my first exposure to Linux in 1995. I remember downloading 30-something floppy disks over a painfully slow T1. I deployed our company's sendmail email server a few months later, running on an old PC. In 2006 I switched to Linux as my daily driver and if I need windows these days, it runs as a VM.
It was T3 that was the bomb back then, wasn’t it?
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#5That was my first exposure to Linux in 1995. I remember downloading 30-something floppy disks over a painfully slow T1. I deployed our company's sendmail email server a few months later, running on an old PC. In 2006 I switched to Linux as my daily driver and if I need windows these days, it runs as a VM.
It was T3 that was the bomb back then, wasn’t it?
Yeah, sounded cool too. Back then 512kbit ADSL was exciting.
T1, T2, T3, OC-3, OC-12, and OC-48 are terminologies you don't hear anymore.
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#6I'm still running a Slackware box.
While not my first distro, that would be the copy of Red Hat Linux 5.2 I got with the Unleashed book, it is the distro I'm most comfortable with.
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#7I'm still running a Slackware box. While not my first distro, that would be the copy of Red Hat Linux 5.2 I got with the Unleashed book, it is the distro I'm most comfortable with.
I’m still getting more comfortable with it myself but appreciate the ethos and decisions made by Pat and the development team. Just installing 15.0 now as a second OS on my mom’s newly built PC.
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#8My first Linux distribution was Slackware 2.0, bundled with Linux Unleashed book in 1995's Summer.
I had to copy all the floppy images from the CD-ROM into the hard disk and then boot the installation from floppy, as my IDE CD-ROM still wasn't supported by the Linux kernel 1.0.9, and my Trident card was downgraded to 800x600, as X couldn't do 1024x768 with it.
Happy birthday Slackware.
EDIT: kernel version.
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was T3 that was the bomb back then, wasn’t it?
Yeah, sounded cool too. Back then 512kbit ADSL was exciting. T1, T2, T3, OC-3, OC-12, and OC-48 are terminologies you don't hear anymore.
Where I’m living ADSL is still exciting (and one of only 2 options for wired Internet service). Currently on 2 (semi-stable) 60mbps down / 15mbps up pairs bonded together sold as a 100mbps down / 20 mbps up service. I keep it because the cable provider charges a ton for anything over 10mbps up when not on a promotional rate.
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#10That was my first exposure to Linux in 1995. I remember downloading 30-something floppy disks over a painfully slow T1. I deployed our company's sendmail email server a few months later, running on an old PC. In 2006 I switched to Linux as my daily driver and if I need windows these days, it runs as a VM.
A T1 was about ten times faster than a 3-1/2" floppy drive wasn't it?
I never thought of a T1 as "slow" until I started downloading CD images for Linux distros. The first cable modem connections I had were so much faster for downloads.