Slackware 12.0 was my first (and so far only) version of Linux where I found that Slackware did not fill all my needs for a Linux distribution. So alongside Slackware machines I also installed some Slamd64 machines.

With Slackware 13 I went for Slackware64 as my preferred choice. Slackware 12.0 was the last 32 bit Linux I installed on any machine. I still run Slackware 12.0 sometimes today, but then mostly in a virtual machine to compile 32 bit binaries.

One thing that I miss from Slamd64 is that it was a true multilib distribution. Slackware64 is only "multilib ready". This might not seem as a big difference, but it is a difference. With Slamd64 a single source provided all the security updates.

regards Henrik

Did someone mention 12.2?
Have to sort out the Guest Additions yet. No, can't get them working this time, for display size.
Had them working before on 12.2 some time ago, with 14.2 as host.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...he-past-38648/

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Probably it was the best Slackware release ever.

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to all, your first slackware install will always be the best version of slackware ever

They've all seemed pretty good to me. How was it the best?

yep, it was stellar... and kinda turning point

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The last 32-bit only release.

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and last kde 3.5

SLAMD64 12.2 had better memory management than Slackware

Also I heard that Ubuntu is dropping Linux in favor of the NT kernel.

My first version of Slackware was 3.0. When upgrading to 3.1 (also known as "Slackware 96") it was a great improvement to get kernel 2.0 with support for SMP and loadable kernel modules. Before that, everything you might need including drivers for network cards and sound card had to be built into the kernel.

Since then there have been many improvements, mostly in applications and desktop environments. At some point desktop environments seem to stop improving and instead only get bloated. I once liked Gnome a lot, but didn't miss it much when it was ditched in favor of KDE which I also liked back then. Nowadays I consider KDE too bloated and prefer XFCE.

regards Henrik