| jakedp |
07-17-2018 05:30 PM |
Some Wayback Machine links. I figured out what version I first used. At the ISP we used Debian and SUSE, I learnt Linux basics on Debian from the shop guru but it also liked to uninstall everything removing X deps. There are people that remember apt-get hell, I' am one of them. Slackware 7.1 approximately was the first version I used on an Athlon 1Ghz+, GeForce 4 Ti, forget amount of RAM, gaming computer. After that it was Arch when Arch was new and Canadian. It went strange after the founder left the project. Then Gentoo when it was newer and once again before the founder left and it also went strange. Been distro hopping for years, ran Scientific for a quite awhile. Red Hat 7, the worst OS ever released other than DOS makes me to this day edgy around Red Hats. Yes, it was that traumatic.
I rambled, the links:
December 24, 1997: https://web.archive.org/web/19971224...ckware.com:80/
January 25, 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19990125...ckware.com:80/
An online package browser! February 8, 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19990208...ckware.com:80/
Hey, this design looks familiar. The infamous version bump to 7. November 17, 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19991117...ckware.com:80/
Always wanted an Alpha. I will have to check if ksh93 is still in the distribution now. May 4, 2001: https://web.archive.org/web/20010504...ckware.com:80/
Slackware 8.1, -current now hotplugging support! October 23, 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20021023...ckware.com:80/
Slackware 10, which was a great release but 15 is going to beat them all, and Slackware on the mainframe. November 16, 2004: https://web.archive.org/web/20041116...ckware.com:80/
Slackware Linux Essentials 2nd Edition is released. June 28, 2005: https://web.archive.org/web/20050628...ckware.com:80/
Well, that is a long enough post. |
