Lil bit of Slackware history

tdos20 · 05-05-2011, 06:23 AM

Found this interesting article:
http://www.linux.com/component/conte...lackware-linux
Thought a few of you might be interested. ;-)

Dinithion · 05-05-2011, 06:29 AM

Thanks for this

Phorize · 05-05-2011, 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by tdos20

Found this interesting article:
http://www.linux.com/component/conte...lackware-linux
Thought a few of you might be interested. ;-)

Thanks for posting this, although I am not sure that running 13.37 is like a "taste of what Linux was like in the early days";just for starters the kernel hardware support is radically improved and the install doesn't require you to insert umpteen floppies just for the last one to be corrupted!

brianL · 05-05-2011, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by kristizz

although I am not sure that running 13.37 is like a "taste of what Linux was like in the early days"

Agreed. That's one of the myths that crops up in too many articles about Slackware, giving people the false impression that it's old-fashioned.

sycamorex · 05-05-2011, 06:53 AM

Nice one. I didn't know about Slackware 96

Chuck56 · 05-05-2011, 07:58 AM

Hmm, "version inflation". PV could migrate to version numbers that correspond to the number of years Slackware has been distributed. We could be on version 18 by now!

tdos20 · 05-05-2011, 10:47 AM

Yeh - I thought the last sentence was pretty patronising but apart from that it taught me some stuff I didn't know.

raconteur · 05-05-2011, 11:27 AM

Ahh, the early days... running out of inodes during the install, the upper-arm exercise of swapping floppies, taking two days to compile X, so many fond memories

I still have most of the media for early versions -- I'm really not certain exactly why... nostalgia isn't the right word.

It is a cool article, thanks for linking it.