The best release of Slackware was?
 

I was sitting around thinking about all my music and toys I collected through the years. I had a moment where I thought about my life obsession with Linux. I can never forget how 1995 was a good year. My 486 DX2 66 was the best. My friend hooked me up with slackware a - y and no x.

So over the years I looked to each release with mixed feelings. Sometimes I didn't bother to notice.

2.x my first
3.x ...
4.0 last to include libc5
9.1 shipped with my 3dfx drivers
10.1 last to include gnome
10.2 last to include abiword, nifty looking kde 3.4
11 odd distro, last to not have hal
12 first to include hal
12.2 last to include KDE 3.5
13 First to include KDE 4 and a 64-bit version

I've only been using Slackware since 12, but I'm liking Current best right now. (Mainly because of KDE 4.3)

-current as always :D

I've been a slacker since 8.0, and I think I've got to say 13.0. Mainly because it's 64bits and, well, there is no future in 32bits.
But that's not really a good reason, but everything else in 13.0 is pretty slick. You know, to be honest, I don't really feel like there is a lot of difference between the releases. Perhaps some cosmetic differences, like KDE4 replaced KDE3.5. I alot of the changes is happening in the background without me noticeing them.


I can't recall what release they started using the 2.6 kernel as I was compiling it manually until it got included in slackware, but I'm pretty certain it was 2.4 when I first started. Anyway upgrading from 2.4 to 2.6 was a great leap in my opinion. It made my days a lot easier. :)

I'd say 8 since it was my first.....

It was 11, 2.4 was the default with 2.6 in /extra.
I started with 10.0, but I really can't say which was my favourite - all of them?

I'm going to stick my neck out here... I think that the Slackware 13.0 release was disappointing (at least for the 32-bit users who weren't purely excited over a 64bit release). If Slackware was publicly owned then the share price would have dropped in the few days after 27/08/2009. Most of my problems are with KDE 4.2.4. I know you shouldn't judge Slackware purely on the perfomance of KDE but it was really bigged up the in the release notes. KDE 4.2.4 is very unstable, it should have never been included in any Slackware release.

Now I'm using Current and it's back to being the best linux distro.

What he said! :)

12.1 was the first release i used, i liked it straight away and i still do. Now running 13 64 bit and it's still great.
As for KDE, yeah i think it's buggy but that's great about Slackware Linux; there are alot of DE's and WM's to choose from.

I say 13 because it has 64-bit support.

I don't have experience with -current, so my vote is 13, because overall hardware support has just gotten better with each release. 13 was the first release with included support for both my atheros and ralink wireless nic's. The only driver I have to install myself is the nvidia.

Only running Slackware exclusively since 12.0. Right now -current floats my boat.

Hi,

Sorry!

I can't participate in the poll as I have found each stable release to be the 'Best'. '-current' provides excitement but I do limit it to one machine for obvious reasons.

Maybe my viewpoint is to simple but each release does provide exposure to new toys, OK I mean tools. :)

BTW, I have been around since dirt became dirty. Or was that nerdy? Snapsyse (not Synaptics) is not functioning at peak. :)

Same here - although I have skipped 12.1 and 12.2 out of laziness (actually I stuck with 12.0 but ran them in VM's - yes I'm Slackware obsessive ;)) and have now jumped back in the land of the living with 64-13. Sad part is I now have a ton of packages to rebuild and remember all the fiddling around I had to do to get a few of them to build. Some moral in there somewhere.

I have used Slackware on and off at the very beginning of my Linux adventures 10 years ago. I started out with ~ version 7.1, left, then time went by, I played with 8.0, 9.1, left again, and then fully plunged into 10.0. For me the sweet-spot was 10.0, and ever since then I have been trying out and using each new release, and loving every one of it!