Another Slackware Oldie

upnort · 02-15-2020, 07:02 PM

3rensho · 02-16-2020, 03:30 AM

Wow, that is an oldie. Reminded me of the days when I still lived in the US (decades ago) and had a subscription for CD's. They used to come from Concord, Calif. if memory serves.

bitfuzzy · 02-16-2020, 07:25 AM

And here I am thinking I'm special with my Slackware 8.0 CD

cwizardone · 02-16-2020, 08:35 AM

The company was known as Walnut Creek CDROM. They had a Walnut Creek address, but the packages may have been shipped out of Concord, the next city north.

hazel · 02-16-2020, 08:41 AM

When I was starting with Linux around 2004, I was told that Slackware didn't come on CDs but on packs of floppies, the only Linux distro to be distributed in that way. Is there any truth in that story?

cwizardone · 02-16-2020, 08:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hazel

When I was starting with Linux around 2004, I was told that Slackware didn't come on CDs but on packs of floppies, the only Linux distro to be distributed in that way. Is there any truth in that story?

At one time, perhaps, but the date on the CD package in my previous post is March 1995.

Toutatis · 02-16-2020, 08:51 AM

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdra..._fall_1993.jpg

This was my first linux (kernel 0.99.13 I think), in 1993

Two years later I moved to slackware

3rensho · 02-16-2020, 09:03 AM

Quote:

The company was known as Walnut Creek CDROM

Yup, I'd forgotten the name. I had a subscription for a while way back then.

sombragris · 02-16-2020, 10:23 AM

Beautiful!

upnort · 02-16-2020, 11:24 AM

Is there a collection of images of all Slackware boxes? Would be a nice addition some place!

ehartman · 02-16-2020, 04:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bitfuzzy

And here I am thinking I'm special with my Slackware 8.0 CD

I'll beat you with my 3.0 CD-set (from Walnut Creek).

upnort · 02-16-2020, 04:03 PM

Post some pics of these boxes.

ehartman · 02-16-2020, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hazel

When I was starting with Linux around 2004, I was told that Slackware didn't come on CDs but on packs of floppies, the only Linux distro to be distributed in that way. Is there any truth in that story?

I do not know it it ws the only one, but Slackware was (downloaded) floppies only until the first Walnut Creek CD-set was released in March 1995 (that was around release 2.2, I believe).
The whole set of distribution directories was based on "fitting on a floppy" until about release 7.1, see i.e. this tree

Quote:

$ ls -l /mnt/tmp/slakware
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2000-06-21 20:50:59 a1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:51:11 a10
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:51:11 a11
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:51:12 a12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:51:12 a13
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:51:12 a14
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:51:43 a15
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:51:13 a16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:51:01 a2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:51:03 a3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:51:04 a4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:51:06 a5
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:51:07 a6
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:51:08 a7
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:51:09 a8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:51:10 a9
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6144 2000-06-19 05:32:58 ap1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6144 2000-05-10 04:27:45 d1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 1999-09-22 04:41:02 des1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-04-25 03:51:57 e1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-09 07:56:33 f1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 10240 2000-06-19 07:05:30 gtk1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-09 04:14:27 k1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2000-05-29 21:06:01 kde1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17571 1999-10-22 21:26:56 makeflop
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:56:47 n1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:56:48 n2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:56:48 n3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:56:49 n4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:56:50 n5
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:56:50 n6
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:56:50 n7
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 2000-06-21 20:56:51 n8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 1999-09-28 00:35:32 t1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 1999-06-28 02:11:33 tcl1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 2000-06-21 00:57:45 x1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2000-05-17 02:07:16 xap1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 1999-09-03 00:24:45 xd1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 1999-10-04 04:06:25 xv1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 1999-09-29 22:29:34 y1

(from a mounted 7.1 CD #1).

See the "makeflop" script in the middle of all those separate directories.

PS: alle file- and directorynames were restricted to 8+3 too, so they could be stored on a FAT12 filesystem (so NO version numbers in the package names, etc.).

volkerdi · 02-16-2020, 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

The company was known as Walnut Creek CDROM. They had a Walnut Creek address, but the packages may have been shipped out of Concord, the next city north.

Walnut Creek CDROM was always in Concord (and I don't recall a Walnut Creek mailing address), but "Walnut Creek" sounded better for the company name.

astrogeek · 02-16-2020, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by volkerdi

Walnut Creek CDROM was always in Concord (and I don't recall a Walnut Creek mailing address), but "Walnut Creek" sounded better for the company name.

Walnut Creek CDROM
4041 Pike LN Ste D
Concord CA 94520

Taken from my never mailed product registration card in 4-Disk set distributed as Slackware 96 (Slackware 3.1, kernel 2.0).

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...2&d=1440707383
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...3&d=1440707383