Slackware turns 30
www.theregister.com
Who needs a graphical desktop manager anyway?

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.

    • sab@kbin.social
      18·
      1 year ago

      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! 🎉

    • Mindlight@lemmy.world
      13·
      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.

      • HubertManne@kbin.social
        3·
        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.

  • chaogomu@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    I think I still have disks for Slackware 11 and 13 floating around somewhere. I even ran 13 for almost 2 years as a daily driver… And then got pissed off trying to update packages.

    I’ll admit that these days I just run Ubuntu, because it’s easy, and it works without hours of googling how to fix some random dependency that I can’t actually find for some reason.