Comments on: Making the Case for Slackware in 2018 https://hackaday.com/2018/01/30/making-the-case-for-slackware-in-2018/ Fresh hacks every day Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:45:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: RTCG https://hackaday.com/2018/01/30/making-the-case-for-slackware-in-2018/comment-page-2/#comment-6426002 Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:45:55 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=290769#comment-6426002 Time to update this article for Slack 15 ! IT LIVES !!!!! Again! “Come get some!”

]]> By: Michael Black https://hackaday.com/2018/01/30/making-the-case-for-slackware-in-2018/comment-page-2/#comment-6421073 Fri, 04 Feb 2022 17:17:31 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=290769#comment-6421073 The long Groundhog Day of waiting is over, Slackware 15.0 was released on Thursday Feb 3.

So not only a five and a half year wait since the last release, but z23 months of a pandemic

]]> By: Aunty https://hackaday.com/2018/01/30/making-the-case-for-slackware-in-2018/#comment-6286931 Sat, 17 Oct 2020 06:03:08 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=290769#comment-6286931 In reply to Ostracus.

Well my goodness . . . I’ve just discovered this site, been reading through the posts – I come from the “front panel” days. Nova 3 copies – no stack, think up your own diagnostic routines in the moment and put them in (in binary machine language!!) on the front panel – then onto the “modern” stuff; CP/M, Z-80’s (DMS-3,4 HiNet – like, WOW! 500kbps master/slave network! Wrote my first/own “intranet” mail system straight into the CP/M 2.2 BIOS ;) I loved it! Slackware was my natural go-to once I discovered it. I first got my taste of Linux from a CD in the back of a book by somebody Ball. it was an early RedHat. I was running it on a ‘486SX with 32MBytes RAM. Having come from Digital Research Concurrent CP/M 86, I thought that was a LOT of RAM . . . little did I know what was about to start happenning!!! Actually, I think Bill has turned out to be a decent sort of a bloke, but I didn’t think so at the time. The vast increase in computing power and RAM required to run his operating systems felt like a sweetheart deal with the hardware manufacturers – but I’ve let go of that.

Anyway, I reckon Patrick and his crew are awesome. I haven’t met any of them personally, but I reckon we’d get on just fine ;>)

]]> By: Aunty https://hackaday.com/2018/01/30/making-the-case-for-slackware-in-2018/#comment-6286926 Sat, 17 Oct 2020 05:14:21 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=290769#comment-6286926 In reply to Benedict.

Yeah well, I admit to using Mint or Lubuntu on my desktop, but . . . for anything serious like proper network infrastructure I definitely still go Slack!

]]> By: Elliot Williams https://hackaday.com/2018/01/30/making-the-case-for-slackware-in-2018/#comment-6254620 Tue, 16 Jun 2020 07:32:01 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=290769#comment-6254620 In reply to S. Batra.

Meh. Wasn’t so bad. Try installing Windows (3.1) back then.

]]> By: S. Batra https://hackaday.com/2018/01/30/making-the-case-for-slackware-in-2018/#comment-6254564 Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:19:49 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=290769#comment-6254564 In reply to M Kelsall.

I have also had the pleasure of installing Linux (Slackware in particular) via floppy disks. Boy was it a pain in the butt thinking back, but back then it was required.

]]> By: Robert https://hackaday.com/2018/01/30/making-the-case-for-slackware-in-2018/#comment-6230632 Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:05:46 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=290769#comment-6230632 In reply to Cathy Garrett.

They’re drinking the beauty of Linux, while you seem to be stuck in Mac/Windows land. Grow up!

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