I was wondering this morning if I was the oldest, longest Slackware user.
I started using SLack back around version 2.3 which was '94 or '95, I'm not really sure of the year. From that first time I have never installed another distro of Linux. So, I have been using Slackware for about 20 years. Don't know if that's the longest but at 65 I may be close to the oldest. Don't know, just wondering.

Would like to hear from some older users for grins.

That's not really old. haven't you heard, 70 is the new 50. Which makes you about 45

I've been using Slackware since 1994, but I am not nearly as old as you are ;-)
It's never been the only Linux I used though. I used Yggdrasil Linux before Slackware, and the work laptop has been running a heavily customized Redhat Enterprise Linux for many years now. Love my employer for that.
Several other distro's, I have only toyed with.

Eric

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Yeah, 70 next year. Started using computers when I was 57, Linux when I was 60. First distro was Slackware (10.0), did quite a bit of distrohopping but always came back to Slack.

There is some related data available here!

You and I would fall into the same decade group, and I think we are in good company!

Count me in.

Well, I'm the same age as you, but I can't claim to have been using Slack as long! I never really used any Microsoft stuff, starting on IBM mainframes and PDP-8s at college, progressing via BBC micros to OS/2 on PCs. When it became clear that IBM were dropping OS/2 (long before they announced it!) I tried RedHat off a magazine cover disk, but never really got anywhere with it. Then I tried Vector Linux, which was a revelation! After using Vector for year or so, and discovering it was based on Slack, I thought "What the heck!" and installed Slack 7 something or other - just before Slack 8 came out, and have used it as my main distro ever since. I did deviate via Slamd64 for a while until Slack became 64-bit, and I occasionally install Mageia if I need a quick and dirty install on some piece of kit, but I use Slack for all my important work.

Long may it prosper!



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Pete

This is good info, I didn't know about this thread. Also it shows one user between 80-89 So I am definitely not the oldest. lol

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Hey,
Typical youth ... you youngsters are all the same.
Some of us are still kicking butt at 75 :-)

cheers (with raspberry!)
pete

pete hilton
saruman@ruvolo-hilton.org

Both my parents are in their 60s and use Slackware, though not necessarily by their own choice :-) They're aware of Windows, however, they never complain because Slackware does everything they need and has never failed them. Two anecdotes from the "Slackware & Parents" real life experience:

Photo management was one thing that I just couldn't get right for them. Every management tool I tried had a convoluted GUI, was over-engineered, under-maintained, badly translated, and in general too complicated. The solution: geeqie & Thunar - it's so simple.

I once messed up a libc upgrade remotely and couldn't make the 600km drive to fix it. But with a little guidance over the phone my mom (who doesn't speak English) managed to boot from the Slackware CD and start dhcpcd and dropbear manually.

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I'm past my 66 birthday, and a Slack user since 8.0; when you needed a hand full of floppies and a CD to get it installed. Its rock solid. I did run other distros, mostly Mandrake/Mandriva. No thought of changing, even if ( and thats a big if ) systemd does become a part of Slack.

Wow, I didn't imagine some people here are above 60. I am feeling like a child now.

65 next month.

Now 75.
Started Slackware in 1995. Have tried other distros, including LFS, but keep coming back to Slackware.

John