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.

  • Mindlight@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.