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🎉 Happy Birthday, Slackware! 🐧

Released on July 17, 1993, Slackware is the oldest actively maintained Linux distro. It has been going strong for 32 years now!

From floppy disks to modern setups, it's been a wild ride.

Did you ever try Slackware? Still using it? Share your experience below! 👇

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Axel Werner
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🎉 Happy Birthday, #Slackware ! Last time i installed you was "almost" that long ago 😅 Maybe it's worth a little Slackware #Linux install session , to see what you have been doing all these years 😁
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HankB
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Slackware might have been the first distro I tried. I'm not sure, it was a long time ago - back when we used to buy the CDs from Walnut Creek. I might have downloaded and burned a CD or two myself as well.

Thank you Patrick!

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Ben Foote
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My first experience with Linux, back in 1997. I remember downloading disk sets onto 3 1/4 floppy disks and partitioning my 1.2GB HD to make room for it. Been a Linux user ever since, and can't give enough props to Patrick Volkerding for getting me hooked on Linux, even though I've moved on over the years from distributions.
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StarSightMasks
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I set up and ran a small ISP in Chicago in 1994-99 running Slackware. When the CD first arrived and I saw a small Dobbs Head printed on it I knew that I made the right decision. Happy Birthday Slackware!
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mL
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Slackware's on my main laptop since 2021. Absolute workhorse, rarely crashes (since KDE6), serves my needs well.
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Royaldemon98
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I can't understand the old people's emotions man how old are you guys I know I'm a million years old but in earth years I'm gen z
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Jo Momma
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I ran a small (~5000 user) ISP entirely on Slackware and FreeBSD from 2000 - 2005... Still the best environment I ever managed. Total control and easy to understand configs; it was beautiful.
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bazio101
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First try to use it failed back in 2010 (I was an nooby Linux - Ubuntu user).
Second try was successful in 2014 and I never changed distro since then.
Today a home cloud server (since 2018) and 2 PCs running Slackware.
Happy Birthday!
Special thanks to Patrick, Alien Bob and everybody in LinuxQuestions forum!
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Charadon
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Yup, still using it. Currently on the -current branch ;)
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lemgandi
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Wow! The first distro I ever installed, from about 20 floppies. I still remember that astounding moment when I rebooted the machine, it ground for a minute, and then dropped me to a "#" prompt. I was using Unix professionally at the time, and being at a root prompt always carried the fear that 5 people would instantly appear at your office door angrily accusing you of messing up their work.
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Thad
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It was my first, maybe around 2002. I learned a lot and in particular I think I'm better at troubleshooting Linux issues than I would have been if I'd gone with Red Hat, Mandrake, or even Debian, but I just don't have that kind of time to sink into managing my distro anymore. I mainly use Manjaro these days (though I've got machines running Fedora and Zorin too).
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Michelle Hughes
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I used my mom's dial-up account at the university to download a bunch of slack ware floppies from sunsite over multiple nights. It was my first Linux. I don't remember which release this was, but this was before Linux had ELF support, so it must have been around 1995. Also, I didn't understand the whole concept of distros, so once I had Linux installed, I compiled all software from source. Including new versions of the kernel.

Eventually, I switched to Debian potato.

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Jens Hannemann
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Slackware 1.1, Kernel 0.99.13. Came on 60 or so floppies. Took me 2 days and nights to install, as every mistake meant a complete do-over. But boy was my machine rocking it when I finally had X11 up with FVWM. Good times.
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Mira
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I cut my teeth on and used Slackware for a long time (oh the number of floppies, downloaded over dialup, at 1 floppy an hour, if I was lucky). I made my first router/firewall on Slackware 7 when I finally got DSL. I tried Slackware 15 after stepping away from Linux for a while, but the lack of dependency checking, decent updating tools, software vendor support, and a “install all the things” installation process turned me off. Pretty much use Debian only anymore.
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cyberpunkrocker
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Slackware was the Linux high-school for me, by using it I really started to understand how Linux and computers work. I even became a maintainer of some applications.
I think Slackware has (or at least had) the best balance between used versions of the apps: bleeding-edge desktop apps on top of a conservative, well-tested and stable base system.
I should still have the official Slackware 8.0 install CD's somewhere...
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jloc0
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Slackware wasn’t my first, but it’s the one that left the best impression. And I could run it from Zip disk. How cool was that? It enabled me to learn while using another OS as a backup at the same time, before I had any idea I could dual boot. I learned so much about my hardware at the time that I still remember it 20+ years later. Still running Slackware on most everything because it’s just that great.

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