Every second week there appears to be an anniversary or "date of note" relating to Slackware.

Do you guys ever get any actual work done? ;)

Anyway, Happy Birthday!

I woke up this morning, and without thinking I put this shirt on. Praise Bob!

Happy 25th Birthday, Slackware!! I started using Slackware in 2004 with version 10.0. Slackware is my operating system of choice! I have one OpenBSD partition living happily on one of my Slackware64-current boxes. :)

Yes!
Wearing mine!
:)

Member response
 

Hi,

First, stop using Fedora. If using Slackware & Firefox then you can look/change via about:config and searching for useragent and modify the string for general useragent override to 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Slackware Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0.2' and be sure change to the version information for the browser to reflect the actual version in use for yours.

You may need to modify useragent to 'Slackware'.

Do a search here on the Slackware forum for useragent modify as I know this has been a lengthy thread for this very subject.

Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!
:hattip:

Awesome! My black Slackware T-shirts are getting a bit worn so I bought two new shirts a few days ago.
Praise Bob! :)

https://store.slackware.com/cgi-bin/...DN2L&mv_pc=133

Ah, it's probably because I'm on Red Hat here at work. I thought it had something to do with my user profile. Nevermind then, and thanks! (Now to stop posting at work...)

Happy birthday Slackware!

Thanks to Pat and the Slackware Crew for helping producing what is simply the very best, world-class distro which soundly defeats offerings from multibillion-dollar corporations.

I started using Slackware 8.0, but couldn't use it for much longer; I lacked the experience to make all my hardware work.
However, when Pat introduced hotplug in 9.0 that was another story. Installed Slack and promptly forgot about everything else.
Slackware is simply on a different league.

Once you Slack, you never go back!

Shameless Plug: Submitted a story to Slashdot; if you would like to see it on the front page please upvote:
https://slashdot.org/submission/8400...ution-turns-25

Today is Pungenday, the 52nd day of Confusion in the YOLD 3184

Happy Birthday, Slackware!!!
Big Thanks to Pat & all those who contribute to making such a special distro. :hattip:
Praise "Bob"!

Wonder if I'll be around for the 50th? I'll only be 98, so...maybe.

Happy Birthday Slackware! Been using it on and off since 2000. This time though had enough of crap and sticking with Slackware. Reminds me of the days when Linux was fun and a frontier, I was younger, and before the corporate monoliths took over the Internet.

May it continue as long as it may.

I've been running Linux for 16 years, so since 2002. The first distribution I installed was some version of Mandriva out of a "For Dummies" book from the library on some old clunker server I was given by my Father's friend. I wanted to develop a web site and had read online that Linux was the best way to run a web site from home. The installation of Mandriva went poorly, I forget why now. I ended up with Debian Woody on it. I was able to get a web site going with basic HTML. A year or so later I distro hopped a bit. I tried out many. One I happened to try out was Slackware, around 2005, version 10.1 I believe. Like many before me who used a .deb based distro, I tried to do the typical "minimal installaion" and the "network installation". My internet connection was dial-up back then. I didn't want to download the full Slackware CD ISO set, it would take forever. In the end I got a stock full installation of Slackware 10.1 working and was able to browse the web. After a week of using it I reinstalled Debian Sarge because I missed my .debs. Some years passed by, and I was very happy with Debian and the Debian philosophy. Around the end of 2014, when the Debian Jessie release was shaping up in Debian Testing/Unstable, I realized I would need a new Linux distribution or I would need to make the switch to FreeBSD. I tried out all the *BSDs for a few months, but nothing fit. I then googled, "the most Unix like Linux distribution," and found Slackware again. I immediately installed Slackware 14.1 in a virtual machine. I was so impressed and in early 2015 I switched to Slackware. I even bought a laptop from ZaReason that has great support for Slackware. I've been able to do everything and more with Slackware. Gaming, web development, penetration testing, the list is too long to mention. Slackware fits like a well made glove. I will use Slackware until it is no more.

That is a great interview on Hacker Public Radio if you have not heard it. For the newer Slackers, it gives you some great insight about what Patrick Volkerding and Slackware are all about.

P.S. I would like to add the mandatory: Happy Birthday to Slackware!

P.S.S. I will be buying my yearly Slackware T-Shirt from the Slackware store. :hattip:

Member response
 

Hi,
Makes sense!

Be sure to check your systems at home. :)

Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!
:hattip:

As many others have said, Happy Birthday Slackware! And congratulations to Pat for an awesome 25 years. Granted, I've only been a user for about half of that (started with 10.1 or 10.2 back in the mid-2000s), but I've been a happy camper. Here's to another 25 years! :party:

And also a great thanks towards those who have helped Pat out over the years!

Might just be a reference to Pat's LQ username, volkerdi.

Happy Birthday Slackware.

I don't remember the release I first tried but it was a Walnut Creek CD I bought at Business Depot. LOL, had to use a floppy as a bootdisk for installing. Slackware fits my needs like a glove

Happy birthday slackware! My first linux love and still keeping the faith. Here's to many more :party: