Am I remembering right that I got it from tsx-11.mit.edu?
tsx-11 was, IIUC, primarily a mirror of Linux (i.e. the kernel itself). But it could certainly have mirrored Slackware as well.
Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
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Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#22Just want to make a note that Slackware 14 (the previous major version), from 2012, which shipped with the 3.2.29 kernel, is receiving updates as recently as today.
Its quite amazing indeed! For the curious, here's the changelog for stable releases 14.0 [0], 14.1 [1], and 14.2 [2]. Not all packages are updated (such as the kernel version, but many critical attack surfaces are such as curl [3], ca-certificates, and sudo. Also note that for Slackware 14.0 and 14.1 releases, this was prior to the Mon Aug 3 19:49:51 UTC 2015 bump of the build architecture from i486 to i586 builds [4]. This means that one should be able to run currently supported Slackware 14.0 and 14.1 on any 486 compatible processor, and Slackware 14.2, 15.0 and -current on Pentium-compatible i586 CPUs since they are still building 32-bit packages [5][6]!
[0] http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/ChangeLog...
[1] http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/ChangeLog...
[2] http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/ChangeLog...
[3] http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-sec...
[4] http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-current/sou...
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#23Slackware was my first personal OS back in 1996. Built a PC for college, and instead of Windows, I got slackware floppies free from the school. Took me 2 weeks to install. Never got the sound card to work.
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#24Slackware was my second Linux distro, after SLS. I ran a heavily customized Slackware for about 4 years: custom kernel, aout->ELF upgrade, many packages built from source.
Wow! It sounds like you have seen a lot of major changes! But so far, no SysVinit->systemd nor dropping 32-bit i586 package builds for Slackware 15.0 and -current [0][1]. As someone new to Slackware I appreciate the balance of having lots of pre-built packages and just about everything that's not included as a build script on SlackBuilds.org (known as SBo by many) [2]. Are you still using Slackware today?
[0] http://www.slackware.com/changelog/stable.php?cpu=i386
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#251994 and my friend had a harebrained scheme to start an ISP and we needed to learn Linux to run it. 75 floppies later I was hooked and Free Software and Linux have been my computing lifeblood ever since. Thanks Slackware!
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#26Slackware was my second Linux distro, after SLS. I ran a heavily customized Slackware for about 4 years: custom kernel, aout->ELF upgrade, many packages built from source.
Wow! It sounds like you have seen a lot of major changes! But so far, no SysVinit->systemd nor dropping 32-bit i586 package builds for Slackware 15.0 and -current [0][1]. As someone new to Slackware I appreciate the balance of having lots of pre-built packages and just about everything that's not included as a build script on SlackBuilds.org (known as SBo by many) [2]. Are you still using Slackware today? [0] http://…
I've been working with Linux in one form or another for 30 years now! I almost can't believe it's been that long. Though I haven't used Slackware since the late 90's, I might take another look.
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#27I ran Slackware for ~6 years, my first serious distro. It's kind of the perfect learning distro for Linux - a super stable base, but if you want more you need to learn how to do it yourself. You didn't need to compile your own kernel or set up tons of configuration just to boot, but if you wanted certain graphics drivers or other software, you quickly learned how to write shell scripts and manage builds and dependenc…
I was just telling a co-worker literally yesterday that a few years of Slackware was the single most effective thing I did to learn Linux well.
I ran it on my desktop and an old (old in the early 2000s!) laptop with 32 MB of RAM, and learned a TON. It's the perfect generic "Linux" system, and you can take it in any direction you want, but you have to do it yourself.
Funny enough, I also got too busy and moved to Debian.
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#281994 and my friend had a harebrained scheme to start an ISP and we needed to learn Linux to run it. 75 floppies later I was hooked and Free Software and Linux have been my computing lifeblood ever since. Thanks Slackware!
Wow! 75 floppies! That sounds like a lot! Was that Slackware 1.x? 2.x? And this sounds like a very interesting story: can you elaborate on any architecture details, equipment, getting other ISPs to peer?
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#29Slackware was my first personal OS back in 1996. Built a PC for college, and instead of Windows, I got slackware floppies free from the school. Took me 2 weeks to install. Never got the sound card to work.
Very nice! Was there a reason your school gave out Slackware installer floppies? Was it required for a class? Or through a student organization? And if you recall, were you running a Creative SoundBlaster? Ad Lib? Gravis ultrasound?
Re: Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
#30Second distro I ever used, the first being Lasermoon. Prior to that, I used something that was a Linux 0.9 kernel and a bunch of disk images FTPed from some dude's server in Finland.
Back in the olden days it ran just fine on a Compaq Deskpro 386SX but needed a whopping 4MB of RAM.