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Old 12-11-2014, 09:38 PM   #16
david63025
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I'm 63 and have been using Slackware since 1995.
 
Old 12-11-2014, 09:47 PM   #17
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The whole notion that you have to be young to understand technology is a bunch of hooey promoted primarily by persons who don't understand technology. Or youth.
 
Old 12-11-2014, 11:28 PM   #18
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I'm relatively young (old) depending on your point of view. I'm 56 and started slacking with version 10.0 in 2004.
 
Old 12-12-2014, 12:06 AM   #19
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Still snapping the whipper at 47.
Slackware was the first distro I successfully installed (1998) after failing to figure out RedHat's GUI installer.
 
Old 12-12-2014, 12:36 AM   #20
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I am sixty-something-or-other, I think, I forget exactly...

Worked with microprocessors and main frames since mid-70's, entered the PC world mid-80's.

Dabbled with Slackware in the Walnut Creek days, full time Slacker since 2005 and hope to never change!
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Old 12-12-2014, 12:56 AM   #21
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I hope that when I will be 65, and this will be in less time than Slackware already exists, that Slackware is still around I will be able to use it :-)
 
Old 12-12-2014, 01:15 AM   #22
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I turned 54 the other day, using Slackware since 12.1. I feel young with all of these old fogies here .
 
Old 12-12-2014, 01:30 AM   #23
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Sixty, been using Slackware since the early nineties.
 
Old 12-12-2014, 02:30 AM   #24
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Slackware is the fountain of youth
 
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Old 12-12-2014, 02:51 AM   #25
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My son is not even 2 years old and uses slackware, my mother in law is above 70 and also uses it.
 
Old 12-12-2014, 05:12 AM   #26
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Heh Im 58 and have been using Slackware since 1995... gotta love it :-)
 
Old 12-12-2014, 07:04 AM   #27
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60 here.
 
Old 12-12-2014, 08:10 AM   #28
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75 too :-)
Started with Mandriva, read some books about Linux.
One German book mentioned Slack very prominently.
Since then it was Slack (I guess 7.0) for me.
 
Old 12-12-2014, 09:11 AM   #29
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Well, I'm 70 and been at it with Slackware since, I think (don't really remember), 3? It came on a bunch of CD-ROMs, not on floppies and I don't remember when that was. I migrated from Unix and Solaris at work to Slackware at home (and worked at home most of the time) and needed at "most like System V" platform (and could not stand Win-anything).

Been a happy camper ever since.
 
Old 12-12-2014, 10:02 AM   #30
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66 and fat!
Started slacking in 1996
My only home system since then
Never really needed anything else besides the occasional virtual machine.
John
 
  


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