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[...] In essence everything is basically derived from Slackware, the oldest surviving distribution and the only one really worth mentioning from its era anyway.[...]
That's an important point in the history of 'hackers, heroes of the computer revolution'.
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Patrick has 1 other guy helping him out. He did have three, but his layoffs were harsh from the fallout of viet.com.[...]
I thought fallout was Walnut Creek CDRom...
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@dchmelik seems to be celebrating the 30th anniversary by pulling back some retro threads.
Kinda nice seeing familiar nicks from days gone by.
Still, I am not sure that XavierP would approve.
Distribution: Slackware/Salix while testing others
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Agreed hitest and allend...
I will add this "What makes Slackware a Slackware", that you can safely presume that Slackware has remained true to itself in the 21 years since the question was asked and when it was resurrected. From install to commands etc... It is still the same Slackware. Now try to compare that to any other distro over the same time period. =)
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