This week the Slackware Linux project is celebrating its 30th anniversary. It is the oldest Linux distribution that is still in active maintenance and development.
This week the Slackware Linux project is celebrating its 30th anniversary. It is the oldest Linux distribution that is still in active maintenance and development.
I mean sure, but Debian is far more active, relevant, and only like two months younger…
Debian has a lot of other things going for it - but Slackware still beat it by two months, and Linux wouldn’t be the same without it. Worth celebrating! 🎉
You aren’t wrong :)
Also, wasn’t SUSE Linux originally based on Slackware?
When I started playing around with Linux 25 years ago Debian and APT was a small revolution in how good it worked out of the box.
I tried to get into Red hat and SUSE and I always wanted up in trouble even before I got any Windows manager up and running. Don’t get me started on RPM and dependency hell
Debian just worked. I had stuff up n running BEFORE I had to go down the rabbit hole to understand how all things was connected.
For a beginner that was a game changer.
I disagree with suse. suse was the first distro where I was able to get a laptop working completely without having to download additional drivers.