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volkerdi

07-11-2013 02:39 PM

Original project announcement on comp.os.linux was 20 years ago today

It's hard to believe, but it's been 20 years since this post. The first release (along with the first public mention of the name) followed 6 days later. I think I can safely say that a lot more people turned out to be interested in this than anticipated. :) Cheers!

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net.Edu!bf703

From: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux

Subject: Want an SLS like .99pl11A system?

Date: 11 Jul 1993 17:53:15 GMT

Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)

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Message-ID: <21pk2b$h45@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>

Reply-To: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding)

NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu

Well, that's good, because I put one together. It does not yet have

XFree-86 1.3, but give me about 2 days and it will. This is not like

the MCC release, rather, it is a big system, even more bloated than

SLS :^)

Currently it has all of the same features as SLS 1.02, with these

additions:

1. The newest FAQ

2. Simplified installation procedure.

3. Kernel level .99 pl 11 Alpha.

4. libs and includes at 4.4.1, (without the limits.h problem)

5. GCC at 2.4.3 (may be 2.4.5 soon)

6. Net-2 TCP/IP preconfigured for loopback.

7. Public domain ksh and tcsh 6.04.

8. command line JPEG utilities.

On the X side, XV 3.00 has been added.

Now here's the deal: there are 13 disks in the 'A' series (same as SLS

A, B, and C) and 10 in the X series. I don't have any way to offer this

system publicly. If I tried to put it up on our 3b2 it would kill it.

This system has been used among my associates here since we put the

first one together back at pl8. Our original goal was just to debug the

SLS releases, but those have been slowing down and we happened to get a

jump on things.

I'd like to hear from you if this package sounds appealing. If demand is

not too strong, I may test releasing it on the 3b2 here.

If you have an archive site for it, LET ME KNOW! I'll set you up with a

copy of it to put up for FTP.

Take care,

--

Patrick Volkerding

volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu

bf703@cleveland.freenet.edu

astrogeek

07-11-2013 02:47 PM

Thank you!

cynwulf

07-11-2013 02:49 PM

Great job, thank you for continuing to maintain this superb distro.

:hattip:

kikinovak

07-11-2013 02:59 PM

Cheers from the grateful South of France, Patrick!

hyperhead

07-11-2013 03:03 PM

Thanks, I never stop learning with Slackware and benefit from its great community.

chess

07-11-2013 03:06 PM

Thank you for developing and continuing to maintain the Slackware project, Pat. Congratulations on 20 years of awesomeness!

thirdm

07-11-2013 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by volkerdi (Post 4988600)

I'd like to hear from you if this package sounds appealing. If demand is
not too strong, I may test releasing it on the 3b2 here.

Yes, quite appealing.

volkerdi

07-11-2013 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thirdm (Post 4988620)

Yes, quite appealing.

I did end up releasing it on the AT&T 3b2 UNIX PC. Those didn't come with FTP services, but I found a .mil site with binaries and instructions for setting it up. The 1.00 release was offered from there.

Killed the box dead in about an hour, and more or less DoSed the whole campus network for a week. I think we were connected by frame relay at the time.

sparkyhall

07-11-2013 03:36 PM

Here's to another 20 years of Slackware:hattip:

Didier Spaier

07-11-2013 03:41 PM

Congrats Pat, you may rightfully be proud of such a great achievement :hattip:

And a warm thank you for delivering an even better Slackware at each release.

kabamaru

07-11-2013 03:53 PM

You killed my distro-hopping joy. So congrats.

Bindestreck

07-11-2013 04:07 PM

Congrats! Best distro ever!

JWJones

07-11-2013 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by volkerdi (Post 4988600)

It's hard to believe, but it's been 20 years since this post. The first release (along with the first public mention of the name) followed 6 days later.

Cheers, Patrick, and thank you! Incidently, Slackware and I share the same birthday, July 17th. Awesome.

chess

07-11-2013 04:28 PM

I can't help but think:

"It was twenty years ago today,
volkerdi showed the users a new way..."

brianL

07-11-2013 04:29 PM

Congratulations! Happy Anniversary/Birthday, Slackware!! Thanks, Pat, and Praise "Bob"!!!

samac

07-11-2013 05:16 PM

Thank you for all your hard work, and thank you to everyone who has helped you over the years. You've made the last 9 years of my computing a pleasure.

samac

chemfire

07-11-2013 06:07 PM

Cheers for 20 years of a great project, the best Linux distribution out there, and lots of hard work! Thanks for everything Pat!

hitest

07-11-2013 06:08 PM

Thank you so much Patrick for continuing to maintain my favourite operating system. Cheers from Northern BC, Canada. :)

xj25vm

07-11-2013 06:23 PM

Thanks Pat and the team!

Gerard Lally

07-11-2013 06:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by volkerdi (Post 4988600)

The love of my life walked out on me on July 11th 1993. Funny how it goes. :)

I would say there's quite a bit of personal satisfaction in maintaining Slackware but has it grown over those two decades to become financially rewarding? Enough to keep a family?

Best of luck for the next 20 years to you.

irgunII

07-11-2013 07:00 PM

Happy Anniversary, Patrick! You showed me the way and it's where I'll stay!

allend

07-11-2013 07:01 PM

Wow! 20 years on and interest in Slackware still kills boxes. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ne-4175466948/

Shall we tell 'she who cannot be named' of the most excellent and remarkable achievement that interest in Slackware is keeping pace with Moore's law?

D1ver

07-11-2013 07:03 PM

Thanks Pat for the Amazing distro. Hope to see 20 more years :)

cwizardone

07-11-2013 07:55 PM

Best Wishes on Your 20th Anniversary!

david63025

07-11-2013 08:25 PM

Slackware has been my "Linux" since 1995. I've never regretted that choice.
Thanks, Patrick. I hope you're up for another 20 years.

David

perbh

07-11-2013 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by david63025 (Post 4988756)

Slackware has been my "Linux" since 1995. I've never regretted that choice.
Thanks, Patrick. I hope you're up for another 20 years.

David

Darned - I have used slackware (on and off admittedly) since spring '96 ... beaten by a year!!
Happy anniversary Pat!
Just keep'em rolling and I'll be a more than happy recipient!

manwichmakesameal

07-11-2013 09:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by volkerdi (Post 4988600)

it is a big system, even more bloated than
SLS :^)

This is the part that gets me. I don't think I've ever heard Slackware called bloated.

volkerdi

07-11-2013 09:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by manwichmakesameal (Post 4988773)

This is the part that gets me. I don't think I've ever heard Slackware called bloated.

It was commonly accused of being bloated on USENET for the first 3 or so years. Makes me shake my head now...

paul_s

07-11-2013 09:40 PM

Thank you for years of wonderful work.

My only distro for the last 13 years (and my daughter's, who's about to turn 13).

All the best for the next 20.

Kallaste

07-11-2013 10:09 PM

Wow, 20 years . . . that's really amazing.

It kind of makes me wonder a bit about the bigger picture. What would the world be like without Slackware? I mean, I'm sure the consequences of that original project extended way beyond the obvious. It has the makings of an alternative history novel. Scary stuff! :)

Thank you Pat for all you have done, and continue to do! I believe the world is richer for it.

ReaperX7

07-11-2013 10:15 PM

Here's to 20 years of Slackware, and here's to 20 more years God willing.

Woodsman

07-11-2013 11:09 PM

Microsoft. Apple. Oracle. Red Hat. Ubuntu.

Slackware.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFUhaH34yU0

Thanks Pat. :)

STDOUBT

07-11-2013 11:28 PM

Huzzah!!!

Deepest gratitude sir, for making my computing life tolerable. Fantastic work!

michaelslack

07-12-2013 12:16 AM

Congratulations Pat. The creation of the original slackware was a hell of an achievement, but has been dwarfed in comparison to your keeping it going and nurturing it to its terrific -current state.

Much thanks for giving us an operating system that is a source of joy rather than annoyance.

Michael

gmgf	07-12-2013 12:43 AM

Finally, slackware is young, almost three times younger than me,

a French song said, "on n'a pas tous les jours vingt ans"

Joyeux anniversaire .............. ;)

YellowApple

07-12-2013 01:16 AM

Happy birthday, Slackware! Only one more year before I can legally run 'installpkg beer.txz' on you ;)

I'm tempted to grab a copy of a very early release (1.01 is on mirrors.slackware.com; I wonder if any older versions are lingering on some old FTP server somewhere) and see if I can get it installed. I already have SLS running on my oldest machine (Compaq Presario 1210) and it would be fun to play with them side-by-side and see the similarities and differences.

01micko

07-12-2013 01:37 AM

Thanks!

Happy "Slack" Day!

mjjzf

07-12-2013 01:55 AM

Praise Bob!
And thank you, Pat for the work put into this and the attention to the community.
My machine has been dual-boot for a long time: A Slackware partition for things to work and another partition for trying out all the other new stuff. Slackware runs solidly and it stays where it is.
This occasion calls for a donation, by the way.

fsauer

07-12-2013 02:03 AM

Congratulations!

And a HUGE "Thank You" to Pat!

Franz

linux user 188738, and permanently on Slackware :)

dr.s	07-12-2013 02:22 AM

Have used Slackware on and off since the late 90's until I decided to completely dump Windows. Here's the book that got me started:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4314642-linux
Thanks and congratulations Pat.

lonestar_italy

07-12-2013 02:45 AM

It's great to have Slackware celebrate its anniversary almost the same day of my birthday (today) :-)

solarfields

07-12-2013 02:59 AM

Thank you!

sardinha

07-12-2013 04:15 AM

Thank you, Patrick!

Congratulations, you have shown to us how a nice guy can lead the greatest linux distribution.

kooru

07-12-2013 04:32 AM

Congratulations ;)

jostber

07-12-2013 04:56 AM

Congrats and happy birthday! Many thanks for making, developing and maintaining the greatest Linux distribution around. :)

http://gnu-linux-slackware.blogspot....are-linux.html

PrinceCruise

07-12-2013 05:20 AM

So I was just a 6 years old restless curly hair kid when Pat created that one OS which 20 years later killed my reckless distro-hopping.
Its a beer day for me. Congrats to Pat and the entire crew.

Regards.

chrisretusn

07-12-2013 05:31 AM

Twenty years of coolness.

Philip Lacroix

07-12-2013 05:56 AM

When I found Slackware I found peace. :) Let's keep supporting this valuable operating system, to help keeping it sane and free from false innovations pushed by RHEL-hired, would-be "prophets". Thanks for the great job!

And praise "Bob" for inspiring it. :cool:

ricky_cardo

07-12-2013 06:30 AM

Well done Pat keep up the great work!!!

I think Pat needs a beer for celebration and testing of course.
https://store.slackware.com/cgi-bin/store

tronayne

07-12-2013 06:34 AM

And thank you for 20 years of stickin' to it and stayin' with it.

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