Anyone here use Slackware?

[3spooky5u]

I feel alone, Ubuntu has taken over.

 

[ControlD]

I have fond memories of Slackware. I ran it as my only operating system from 1994 to 1995 and it was awesome.

I haven't tried any recent version of it for at least 10 years now. I guess I got spoiled by some of the newer, flashier distros like Mint.

Maybe I should give Slackware a try again to see what it's like these days.

 

[SunburstLP]

One of the most challenging days I've ever had was trying to install slack. This was back when ATAPI for CD-ROMS had just become a thing. Maybe '94 or so. I sat in front of the computer with my boot floppies and CD for about 27 hours before giving up. I just couldn't get it to recognize or mount the CD drive.

I dabbled with linux over the years until Ubuntu 6.10 came out and I've been running it on at least one box in the house ever since. I play around with other distros, but I love apt too much to leave the debian playground for too long.

I did get Arch running and installed in a VM about a year ago to play with and I really liked it. For the life of me, I don't know why I got rid of that image. I've been messing around with the F21 alpha and Manjaro lately in VMs. F21 is shaping up nicely, but see my earlier remark about my aversion to all things non-apt. It's irrational, I know.

I suppose I'll play around with slack in a VM to see how things have improved over the last 20 years. 🙂

 

[3spooky5u]

Slackware has become easier since 1994 Lol.

There is also Salix, Slackware for slackers

 

[Tauren]

Haven't tried it lately, but liked it in the past

 

[lxskllr]

I like Debian and its derivatives. There's nothing I'm lacking, so I quit looking.

 

[Scarpozzi]

SuSE/OpenSuSE is based on Slackware. 😀

 

[Skaendo]

I don't like Ubuntu. I don't know why, just doesn't feel right to me. It's Debian all the way for me.

I've been using Debian since 2.2 Potato and haven't used another distro since. I've tried out a lot of them but I have to say that I have never tried Slackware.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I am still running Slackware 11 on an old box. Used to run it as a server, now its mostly turned off, I have it in a big giant old chassis, with a bunch of hard drives (replaced it with cheap low power NAS box), I intend to install the mobo/PS back in a smaller chassis and just use for running dedicated game server for some older games I play online with friends and ventrillo.

It was originally a celeron 1.8ghz with 128mb of ram. Its probably almost as old as you are Spooky (not meant as an insult, since I can not insult a slackware user, its against the EULA!)

🙂

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Used to love Slackware in the late 90s to around 2000 or so except for the excessive boot times trying to recognize devices. Ended up ditching it for Linux From Scratch though when they wouldn't update to the 2.6 kernel, which I needed for my wireless adapter to work (was a nightmare back then finding stuff that worked with Linux in the pre newegg days when I bought my gear at CompUSA and the like).

 

[wangotango]

SuSE/OpenSuSE is based on Slackware. 😀

No, it is not. It is independent.

I have been running Slackware for 15 years or more. I went from OS/2 Warp to it. I have tried others but always go back. I'm done distro hopping. I have never cared for Ubuntu. I like openSUSE LXDE on laptops with NVIDIA chips and commercial business machines and desktop builds for the most part.

Slackware is rock solid stable and you can install precisely what you want. I like to manually update dependencies is another reason I like it. I use the Xfce desktop. Total control.

 

[BurnItDwn]

No, it is not. It is independent.

I have been running Slackware for 15 years or more. I went from OS/2 Warp to it. I have tried others but always go back. I'm done distro hopping. I have never cared for Ubuntu. I like openSUSE LXDE on laptops with NVIDIA chips and commercial business machines and desktop builds for the most part.

Slackware is rock solid stable and you can install precisely what you want. I like to manually update dependencies is another reason I like it. I use the Xfce desktop. Total control.

SUSE has used Slackware in the past as their Base Distro (1994-1995). In 1996 they switched base packages to Jurix.

In 1998 Jurix went Defunct, and SUSE was SUSE based...

So, yes, SUSE is pretty much no longer considered to be a fork, but, thats how they started out, and its possible there may still be some 1992-1994 era Patrick Volkerding code in SUSE....

 

[wangotango]

SUSE has used Slackware in the past as their Base Distro (1994-1995). In 1996 they switched base packages to Jurix.

In 1998 Jurix went Defunct, and SUSE was SUSE based...

So, yes, SUSE is pretty much no longer considered to be a fork, but, thats how they started out, and its possible there may still be some 1992-1994 era Patrick Volkerding code in SUSE....

You are correct my friend.

I have the S.u.S.E. Linux 4.1 and may have older version on floppy (butt load of disks) as I recall but it was in German I think.

 

[alkemyst]

I probably have some slackware CD's here.

I think I installed it the first time around the early 90's