The oldest, active Linux distro, Slackware, turns 25

[unixman_again]

https://opensource.com/article/18/7/stackware-turns-25

 

I've never used it myself, but I know several people who swear by it (or maybe at it).

[koryo]

https://opensource.com/article/18/7/stackware-turns-25

 

I've never used it myself, but I know several people who swear by it (or maybe at it).

 

I spot a URL typo (link does work) - I didn't know stackware was a distro, slackware's cousin maybe?

[unixman_again]

I spot a URL typo (link does work) - I didn't know stackware was a distro, slackware's cousin maybe?

 

That would be the fully featured (aka well endowed) version

[admars]

i remember when i went through a period of distro hopping, this was a few years ago, and I had an old pii 450 i was trying distros on (my current p2 at the same was an amd 3800 so the pii 450 was old then.) ubuntu and family were slow, debian was ok, so I went for slack, and it was usable I even installed KDE4 on it and it worked!

 

unfortunately at the time I wanted something that I could just use easily, rather than have to learn Linux to use, so it got replaced by something else.

 

actually i remember using Absolute on that machine as well, based on Slack which was really good

[ADMaster]

I started out on rh 7.x then I bought cds for debian 2.4 from somewhere as these were the days of dial up, I used it for a bit. At some point I had a play with mandrake, suse, and several others I don’t recall.

 

 

Then I used Gentoo for about 3 years that was quite the experience. I then found Ubuntu and its variants. I used it on the desktop for another 2 years or so, but ended up putting on windows to better manage windows networks. This was also about the time they created their own UI, I think they have gone back to Gnome now.

 

 

I introduced Ubuntu server to my school and that is my goto Linux server, but if I get a virtual appliance with something else I’m fine with it. I tried repurposing some old desktops at work with puppy but never put any into production. I ended up using thinstation for those.

 

 

I never used slack, I may have tried it, but not for any length of time. The lack for dependency resolution probably caused too many problems as a beginner. Debian is only a few months younger, 25 years is a great milestone for them.

[Aoi]

I tried slack, didn't really get into it. My very first was SuSe I think. I tried about half a dozen and found I preferred Gnome, used Ubuntu and Linux Mint until I realised how bloated they were, these days I mini install Debian and add lxde-core.