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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian "Debian was first announced on 16 August 1993 by Ian Murdock,who initially called the system "the Debian Linux Release"." Debian is only a month younger than Slackware. |
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"The first ports to other, non-i386 architectures began in 1995, and the first 1.x version of Debian was released in 1996." Duh, me. |
I answered the poll with "I usually run the latest stable Slackware version " because thats the closest but I don't always upgrade right away. I've had to delay upgrades at times due to lack of $ for hardware (I usually swap in a new drive) or the intel i810 video issue or the missing tap to clock on the touchpad back around version 11.
So I'll wait a while before upgrading. |
I first used GNU/Linux in early 2004, specifically Mandrake 9.2. (I burned the CDs in late 2003.) I then used Fedora Core 2, Mandrakelinux 10.0, Fedora Core 3–4, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1, Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy–9.10 Karmic (including Kubuntu and Xubuntu), and briefly in early 2006, openSUSE. I eventually arrived at Gentoo in December 2009 and Arch in April 2010, both of which I still use concurrently on another box.
My first experience with Slackware was version 13.37 in a VM in early 2012. I checked "I am Slackware newbie since 14.0 or the newer one (2012 or later)" because that is the first version I ran on actual hardware. I run 32-bit (x86) Slackware with FVWM, xdm, SeaMonkey, Vim/gVim (I am writing this post in gVim), and rxvt-unicode from SBo. |
I usually run the stable version, but I have had a few brief goes with -current. Very brief. One-night-stands. At my age, too much excitement can be dangerous. :)
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My first Linux is Mandrake Community 10, I used this distribution in 2004 (one or two months). However, this distribution does not accept me, and I installed off-topic. Then, in 2008, I learned about Slackware and had installed now Slackware 12.1 in dual-boot in 2011. Today I use the Slackware 14 only and I is registered Linux user #557010 :)
I is home owner. Thanks for all who is works on Slackware! |
Yggdrasil 1993 was my first Linux. It was miles ahead of Microsoft Windows 3.1
It had a print driver for my HP Deskjet 500 and turned it into a PostScript printer. I tried FreeBSD but could not get it to work with my cdrom drive. Slackware 2.2 in 1995 was my first venture into the "Church of Bob". |
Taking a page from H_TeXMeX_H's book and quoting myself from http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...8/#post4887451:
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I started my Linux experience via Fedora 8 (which is why a retain a soft spot for it to this day), Eventually I tired of it and moved on to Fedora 16 Gnome; I like it well enough as well, but the lack of a word processor really irritated me. For a while, I drifted back to Windows. Then, somehow, I got back to the straight path, Linux, once again, using Fedora 8. That passed quickly enough however, and I wound up distro hopping. I would be in Ubuntu one day, Fedora, the next, then Windows the next day, then Debian the day after that, and then knoppix, and then Windows, OK, you get the point. Well, a couple of months ago I downloaded Slack, and put it into a virtual machine on a Windows laptop. I then wound up with it fully installed on a Sony VAIO, Ubuntu on a Dell Studio, and Windows on a Toshiba Satellite. At the present: I have Slack on both the VAIO and the Studio, with Windows, (Due to programs that I need) running on the Toshiba. However, the Toshiba has multiple VMs, slack included on it
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Slackware was a challange for me, I was an avid distro hopper, and after pouring my heart and soal into my system I do not feel like changing it. I think Slackware quit my distro hopping habit. (a broken hdd help me out a lot too lol)
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You are the first explicit distro hopper in our poll. So you filled the last gap in the poll. Now each option is selected at least once. Mission accomplished! You can stop distro hopping and stay with Slackware forever. |
My problem is that I am lucky enough to have more than one computer. I don't have a "main" workstation and I often wipe a partition and install a different distro on a whim (I removed Slackware the other day and installed Crunchbang - just because I wanted to see how fast it installed! It was very fast and very efficient) - safe in the knowledge that I have access to at least one other stable computer.
I know that I do not need to do this to test a different distro but I hate having more than a single distro on a computer (don't ask. I know --- it's odd. I've given up trying to work out why and I just go with this personality flaw :) ) Some say I waste too much time doing this but I say that I am always learning and have reached the happy state where I am distro neutral and the most important thing is that I can do my work. Having said this, I have not installed a version of Windows on one of my own computers for a quite a number of years and I am being drawn to another Slackware install. I can hear the install DVD calling me. I'm not sure I can fight it. |
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