Age of LQ Member Using Slackware
 

I was intrigued by the mature age reported in recent months by several regular members to this Slackware Forum. Perhaps the stories about Slackware being the preference of older Linux users has some truth to it.

Let's take a quick snapshot and see how our member's ages are distributed. No need to identify yourself unless you are proud of your age. :)

34 - but I'd like to remain anonymous so please do not look at my LQ nickname on the left hand side:)

Category 5 but getting uncomfortably close to 6.

samac

Well this is a nice change :) At age 50-59 I'm actually younger than 60% of those who have voted so far. I dont often get the chance to be on the younger side of any demographic. The knees may be the second thing to go after all, it looks like the first may be ones tolerance for BS :)

55. Slackware forever. :)

Since this is anonymous... ;)

A family of full-time Slackers:

Myself - 61
Wife - 54
Son - 26
Daughter #1 - 23
Daughter #2 - 20

Unfortunately, most of our computers and cars are in the same general age grouping!

46 :hattip:

25 :o

age 71

:)

My age is 47
My First post

Craig Miles

Sixty eight and a quarter. :)
Mental age substantially lower. :D

Welcome Craig !

We hope to see more posts from you.

59 and feeling fine

Should we assume the thumbnail you attached show the two people responsible for your current age?

Ha, I was wondering about this myself recently and thought a poll like this would be a good idea. Must be something going around.

I'm 34. Although I do eat a bit of raw food, so I'm hoping that knocks a few years off. ;)

How old is the universe again ... ? :)

I assumed he was poking fun at the implied (and exaggerated) advancement of his age. :)

46. Young enough to learn something new every day. Old enough to remember when Casio watches and calculators were all the rage at school, long before anybody had heard of Apple and Microsoft.

hahahaha!

:D

My sentiments exactly =)

Great poll BTW Tracy

I think in many cases my fellow slackers...

It isn't the age... it's the mileage :p

31 in a few weeks.

Calculator? Ah yes, I traded in my slide rule for a Texas Instruments SR-10 within months of it coming on the market.

28.

Started slacking when I was 20.

I fall in the middle of the age category that is leading the pack at the moment.

Haha, I actually started using Slackware when I was 13 or 14. But I'm already 20 now :p

I used a slide rule all the way through school. Hand-held calculators came out later.

My first hand-held calculator was a Commodore MM2SR that in 1975 cost approximately $200. The calculator had memory storage, square, square root, and reciprocal functions. The calculator no longer works but I still have the device and original leather case. :)

Second calculator was a TI SR-40, also long ago defunct, now stored in its leather case in a box in the basement.

That was not the first hand-held calculator I saw. My physics teacher had purchased a Heathkit calculator that was as big as a shoe box but nonetheless portable. After he finished soldering and assembling the parts he could add, subtract, multiply, and divide with the new device.

Oh yes --- I still own my one and only Pickett slide rule, model no. N1010-ES, serial no. A1417274, with 17 scales and leather carrying case. Now a conversation piece, although the tool could be useful if the proverbial TEOTWAWKI ever arrived. :)

58 and Slackin" nicely. Mentally much more "immature". Physically, from the people of my own age group.....about 35-40....must be Slackware :)

I quite like this term for designating age, though perhaps it should be scaled to fit actual storm designations so we're not accused of "going up to 11" or anything silly like that. Hmmm, so a logarithmic scale then?

*chuckles* coming up for 68 and still slackin' - my first encounter with slackware in 1996 ...

Lots of old timers here! (joking)

26 here. Been slacking since v13 was released.

61yrs
90% of Slackers are younger than me!

68 - By the end of next year I'll have moved up a level. Jimmy Buffett wrote a song that describes me: "Growing Older, But Not Up"!
Regards,
Bill

Spot on. :)

I am 00100011 years old. :D

Hello,

I am 23. Still Studying!!.. About to complete my MBA. Been Slacking it since 12.0 :P

46 and going on =]

At least there aren't a buttload of whiners who cry and ramble on about their age and just simply state it. Makes me sick when people for the dumbest reasons, won't state their age. Frigin' society.

Anyway, my mom's been using Slackware (because I forced it onto her system by telling her I am stopping any assistance with that M$ crapware, muahaha!) for two or three years now, as have I (though I've been using linux since 2000). I'm 51 and she's 72.

Well currently 37, started programming at 13, touched Slackware around 17, started to work as a game programmer at 20, brought back to Slack at 33.

«And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking...»

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jGOZ3aK05k

(Or more funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6mzAGRY7uo ;) )

Cheers to all Slackers around the world.

A happy 52 here.... so where are all those young whippersnappers :)

51. I started on a university mainframe, Fortran, on punch-cards. My first job was programming assembler on NCR mainframe (a small one) still using punch-cards. First computer was a Sinclair ZX81, followed by a Commodore 64, and then a few years later by various IBM-compatible pieces of junk - sheez - what a backwards step. I had a colour computer in 1983, and a black-and-white one in 1990.

I'm 40 which brings down the age average here a bit but - wait for it - my son aged 8 uses slackware and my daughter is using slackware to watch nursery rhyme videos as I type this: she is 2.

I'm 26 but man! feeling like another kid in the lawn with all these 50-60-70-ish old hats here. Thanks. :D

Regards.

<--- It's in my profile. :)

So far, the distribution across the 20s,30s,40s,50s categories all seem pretty equal. Interesting to note that no one younger than Slackware itself has admitted they're using it.

Interesting that I'm probably youngest one so far. Just turned 20 a few weeks ago.

Roughly 6 months from now I'll be in category 5...
*sigh*

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Tip: Slackware includes what you need to decode that.

52, single and bitter about it ... though I admit that if I was not single I wouldn't have nearly as much time for ... fun ... stuff ... like ... this ...