Happy 25th Birthday, Slackware

Gordie · 07-17-2018, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montagdude

Happy Birthday Slackware!

I'm fairly new to Slackware, too. I've been using it since a few months before 14.2 was released. It has cured me of my distro-hopping habits. I simply have no reason to use anything else. Slackware can be whatever you want it to be (even if you want it to have systemd and Gnome

).

Edit: Why does the little icon next to my post indicate I use Fedora? Anyone know how to fix that?

I changed "What distro do you use?" at the bottom of the page "Edit Profile" and found it directly changes that icon for me

brianL · 07-17-2018, 10:52 AM

I put an entry in ~/.mozilla/firefox/kr77mzhz.default/prefs.js:

Code:

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0/Slackware");

Jeebizz · 07-17-2018, 11:00 AM

Useragent in PaleMoon is weird, I still can't get the Slackware logo to appear on my end. Oh well.

brodo · 07-17-2018, 11:18 AM

Happy Birthday Slackware !
I've been using Slack since the 8-th version as my main computing distro.
Congratulations to all involved !

montagdude · 07-17-2018, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Gordie

I changed "What distro do you use?" at the bottom of the page "Edit Profile" and found it directly changes that icon for me

Might be a coincidence. I have Slackware listed there too. The icon actually reflects what system you are using at the time (more precisely, what your browser reports that you're using) rather than anything listed in your profile.

Quote:

Originally Posted by brianL

I put an entry in ~/.mozilla/firefox/kr77mzhz.default/prefs.js:

Code:

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0/Slackware");

Thanks. I'm just going to leave it now that I know the cause.

sombragris · 07-17-2018, 01:26 PM

In Slashdot's front page!

Slackware, Oldest Actively Maintained GNU/Linux Distribution, Turns 25

animeresistance · 07-17-2018, 01:30 PM

Happy Birthday Slackware !!

Lysander666 · 07-17-2018, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sombragris

In Slashdot's front page!

Slackware, Oldest Actively Maintained GNU/Linux Distribution, Turns 25

Excellent, well done for getting it there, sombragris!

ChuangTzu · 07-17-2018, 02:23 PM

Happy Birthday to the first and one could say last true Linux distro.

Hey that makes Slackware the Alpha and Omega.

kjhambrick · 07-17-2018, 02:54 PM

Happy 25th to Alackware and to Pat and the Team (

and Happy 86th to my Mom

)

magicm · 07-17-2018, 03:24 PM

Indeed - Happy 25th to all !! - especially P.V. and the team !!

jakedp · 07-17-2018, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sombragris

In Slashdot's front page!

Slackware, Oldest Actively Maintained GNU/Linux Distribution, Turns 25

An interesting comment from the page:

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Good old Slackware (Score:5, by Nethead ( 1563 ) <joe@nethead.com> on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @01:16PM (#56963176)

I remember back in the mid 90's I hosted images.slashdot.org on a Slackware box (Pent 90, IIRC) because Rob Malda's T-1 circuit was getting constrained. I was working for the Seattle ISP Wolfe.net and we had a whopping T-3 with 45Mb/s direct to Sprint.
Slashdot start off on Slackware.
This, of course, was back in the dial-up days. Nothing like trying to find a ring-no-answer in a 400 line hunt-group.

gauchao · 07-17-2018, 04:44 PM

Praise Bob! Cheers to everyone!

jakedp · 07-17-2018, 05:30 PM

Some Wayback Machine links. I figured out what version I first used. At the ISP we used Debian and SUSE, I learnt Linux basics on Debian from the shop guru but it also liked to uninstall everything removing X deps. There are people that remember apt-get hell, I' am one of them. Slackware 7.1 approximately was the first version I used on an Athlon 1Ghz+, GeForce 4 Ti, forget amount of RAM, gaming computer. After that it was Arch when Arch was new and Canadian. It went strange after the founder left the project. Then Gentoo when it was newer and once again before the founder left and it also went strange. Been distro hopping for years, ran Scientific for a quite awhile. Red Hat 7, the worst OS ever released other than DOS makes me to this day edgy around Red Hats. Yes, it was that traumatic.

I rambled, the links:

December 24, 1997: https://web.archive.org/web/19971224...ckware.com:80/
January 25, 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19990125...ckware.com:80/

An online package browser! February 8, 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19990208...ckware.com:80/

Hey, this design looks familiar. The infamous version bump to 7. November 17, 1999:https://web.archive.org/web/19991117...ckware.com:80/

Always wanted an Alpha. I will have to check if ksh93 is still in the distribution now. May 4, 2001: https://web.archive.org/web/20010504...ckware.com:80/

Slackware 8.1, -current now hotplugging support! October 23, 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20021023...ckware.com:80/

Slackware 10, which was a great release but 15 is going to beat them all, and Slackware on the mainframe. November 16, 2004: https://web.archive.org/web/20041116...ckware.com:80/

Slackware Linux Essentials 2nd Edition is released. June 28, 2005: https://web.archive.org/web/20050628...ckware.com:80/

Well, that is a long enough post.

Gordie · 07-17-2018, 06:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montagdude

Might be a coincidence. I have Slackware listed there too. The icon actually reflects what system you are using at the time (more precisely, what your browser reports that you're using) rather than anything listed in your profile.

Thanks. I'm just going to leave it now that I know the cause.

I changed to Slackware64 and the icon changed. Changed back to just Slackware and the icon changed back