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Happy 25th Birthday, Slackware!! I started using Slackware in 2004 with version 10.0. Slackware is my operating system of choice! I have one OpenBSD partition living happily on one of my Slackware64-current boxes.
I'm fairly new to Slackware, too. I've been using it since a few months before 14.2 was released. It has cured me of my distro-hopping habits. I simply have no reason to use anything else. Slackware can be whatever you want it to be (even if you want it to have systemd and Gnome ).
Edit: Why does the little icon next to my post indicate I use Fedora? Anyone know how to fix that?
First, stop using Fedora. If using Slackware & Firefox then you can look/change via about:config and searching for useragent and modify the string for general useragent override to 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Slackware Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0.2' and be sure change to the version information for the browser to reflect the actual version in use for yours.
You may need to modify useragent to 'Slackware'.
Do a search here on the Slackware forum for useragent modify as I know this has been a lengthy thread for this very subject.
First, stop using Fedora. If using Slackware & Firefox then you can look/change via about:config and searching for useragent and modify the string for general useragent override to 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Slackware Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0.2' and be sure change to the version information for the browser to reflect the actual version in use for yours.
You may need to modify useragent to 'Slackware'.
Do a search here on the Slackware forum for useragent modify as I know this has been a lengthy thread for this very subject.
Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!
Ah, it's probably because I'm on Red Hat here at work. I thought it had something to do with my user profile. Nevermind then, and thanks! (Now to stop posting at work...)
Thanks to Pat and the Slackware Crew for helping producing what is simply the very best, world-class distro which soundly defeats offerings from multibillion-dollar corporations.
I started using Slackware 8.0, but couldn't use it for much longer; I lacked the experience to make all my hardware work.
However, when Pat introduced hotplug in 9.0 that was another story. Installed Slack and promptly forgot about everything else.
Slackware is simply on a different league.
Happy Birthday Slackware! Been using it on and off since 2000. This time though had enough of crap and sticking with Slackware. Reminds me of the days when Linux was fun and a frontier, I was younger, and before the corporate monoliths took over the Internet.
Here's to the next 25 years. It would be good if some users could share stories of how they got into Slackware. That would be interested to read.
I've been running Linux for 16 years, so since 2002. The first distribution I installed was some version of Mandriva out of a "For Dummies" book from the library on some old clunker server I was given by my Father's friend. I wanted to develop a web site and had read online that Linux was the best way to run a web site from home. The installation of Mandriva went poorly, I forget why now. I ended up with Debian Woody on it. I was able to get a web site going with basic HTML. A year or so later I distro hopped a bit. I tried out many. One I happened to try out was Slackware, around 2005, version 10.1 I believe. Like many before me who used a .deb based distro, I tried to do the typical "minimal installaion" and the "network installation". My internet connection was dial-up back then. I didn't want to download the full Slackware CD ISO set, it would take forever. In the end I got a stock full installation of Slackware 10.1 working and was able to browse the web. After a week of using it I reinstalled Debian Sarge because I missed my .debs. Some years passed by, and I was very happy with Debian and the Debian philosophy. Around the end of 2014, when the Debian Jessie release was shaping up in Debian Testing/Unstable, I realized I would need a new Linux distribution or I would need to make the switch to FreeBSD. I tried out all the *BSDs for a few months, but nothing fit. I then googled, "the most Unix like Linux distribution," and found Slackware again. I immediately installed Slackware 14.1 in a virtual machine. I was so impressed and in early 2015 I switched to Slackware. I even bought a laptop from ZaReason that has great support for Slackware. I've been able to do everything and more with Slackware. Gaming, web development, penetration testing, the list is too long to mention. Slackware fits like a well made glove. I will use Slackware until it is no more.
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EDIT: unrelated to the 25th mark (but then 25 is just an arbitrary mark anyway), but I interviewed Patrick Volkerding many years ago. It was a fun, weird interview. http://www.hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0853
That is a great interview on Hacker Public Radio if you have not heard it. For the newer Slackers, it gives you some great insight about what Patrick Volkerding and Slackware are all about.
P.S. I would like to add the mandatory: Happy Birthday to Slackware!
P.S.S. I will be buying my yearly Slackware T-Shirt from the Slackware store.
Ah, it's probably because I'm on Red Hat here at work. I thought it had something to do with my user profile. Nevermind then, and thanks! (Now to stop posting at work...)
As many others have said, Happy Birthday Slackware! And congratulations to Pat for an awesome 25 years. Granted, I've only been a user for about half of that (started with 10.1 or 10.2 back in the mid-2000s), but I've been a happy camper. Here's to another 25 years!
And also a great thanks towards those who have helped Pat out over the years!
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Happy 25th birthday!!!
Thanks to volkerdi and everybody who help him!!!
Patrick's last name is Volkerding;
Might just be a reference to Pat's LQ username, volkerdi.
I don't remember the release I first tried but it was a Walnut Creek CD I bought at Business Depot. LOL, had to use a floppy as a bootdisk for installing. Slackware fits my needs like a glove
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