Old timer Slackers

IndiX · 01-31-2021, 08:10 AM

Any old-timers here?

+1

Did you download floppy images with a modem?

yes

Did you download or buy the first version on CD?

Download

Do you use zipslack?

No

Do you remember the version jump from 4 to 7?

Yes. I started using slackware since 1999 with version 4.0

Were you one of the acerbic members of the Slackware newsgroup?

No, but I visited the newsgroup from time to time.

Do you use linuxpackages.net?

Yes, back then it was very useful

Do you remember "It's a girl!"?

No

Do you remember Linux 2.6 being in /testing for three releases?

I don't

Do you remember hotplug?

yes

Do you remember when slackbuilds.org went live?

Yes! It's one of the best things to happen to Slackware end users, the other one being Eric Hameleers' packages, IMHO.

Perhaps you are an original 1.0 Slacker?

No, I'm not.

Salut!

bsdunix · 01-31-2021, 10:55 AM

Did you download floppy images with a modem?

yes

Did you download or buy the first version on CD?

download

Do you use zipslack?

did

Do you remember the version jump from 4 to 7?

yes

Were you one of the acerbic members of the Slackware newsgroup?

no

Do you use linuxpackages.net?

did

Do you remember "It's a girl!"?

yes

Do you remember Linux 2.6 being in /testing for three releases?

yes

Do you remember hotplug?

no I/O port for that on my old 486/33DX 4MB RAM PC. "What a long strange trip ..."

Do you remember when slackbuilds.org went live?

yes

Perhaps you are an original 1.0 Slacker?

no, was hacking on BSD and CTOS back then

garpu · 01-31-2021, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by upnort

Did you download floppy images with a modem?

Debian, yes. It was on my college's T1 line, though, thankfully, because 16 floppies would've taken awhile.

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Do you use linuxpackages.net?

Yep

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Do you remember "It's a girl!"?

Yep. Started using slackware shortly before that when Pat was sick.

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Do you remember when slackbuilds.org went live?

Probably? I don't remember them being a thing, or I might not have been aware of them. Come to think of it, I don't know how I was made aware of slackbuilds. Alien mind control?

Pithium · 01-31-2021, 11:57 AM

You old timers might want to clarify what "It's a girl!" means or at least provide some context regarding the event. For us younger kids (I'm 30) that statement often implies toxic masculinity on the internet. I suspect that's not what you are referring to but you probably don't want to leave that one up to the imagination

cwizardone · 01-31-2021, 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pithium

...."toxic masculinity"....

Really?! My suspicions the world has gone stark raving mad are apparently valid.
In other words, please leave your politics at home.

upnort · 01-31-2021, 12:08 PM

Quote:

You old timers might want to clarify what "It's a girl!" means or at least provide some context regarding the event.

Simple suggestion for life: when in doubt presume good intentions. Trust me, the meaning is wholesome.

Not divisive at all and providing clues or clarifying would reveal the meaning and source. Although memories are fragile only people using Slackware back in the day would remember. Based on the replies some old timers do remember.

Petri Kaukasoina · 01-31-2021, 12:12 PM

slackware-11.0/ChangeLog.txt

Code:

Sat Dec 10 23:28:42 CST 2005

It's a girl!  :-)

I know a lot of you have been wondering what's going on here, and the news
is that my wife Andrea delivered our first child, a daughter Briah Cecilia
(briah at slackware dot com :-) on 2005-11-22, and that event (and the weeks
that led up to it) has had to take priority over the usual tasks of
download/compile/test/package/upload.  But, things should be getting back to
normal here (more or less) over the next couple of weeks, particularly after
the holiday season has come and gone.  As you might expect, there are a lot of
friends and relatives who want to see her.  :-)

Thanks for your patience, and we now return you to your regularly scheduled
ChangeLog...

a/bash-3.0-i486-4.tgz...

hitest · 01-31-2021, 12:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pithium

You old timers might want to clarify what "It's a girl!" means or at least provide some context regarding the event. For us younger kids (I'm 30) that statement often implies toxic masculinity on the internet. I suspect that's not what you are referring to but you probably don't want to leave that one up to the imagination

Code:

Sat Dec 10 23:28:42 CST 2005

It's a girl!  :-)

I know a lot of you have been wondering what's going on here, and the news
is that my wife Andrea delivered our first child, a daughter Briah Cecilia
(briah at slackware dot com :-) on 2005-11-22, and that event (and the weeks
that led up to it) has had to take priority over the usual tasks of
download/compile/test/package/upload.  But, things should be getting back to
normal here (more or less) over the next couple of weeks, particularly after
the holiday season has come and gone.  As you might expect, there are a lot of
friends and relatives who want to see her.  :-)

Thanks for your patience, and we now return you to your regularly scheduled
ChangeLog...

a/bash-3.0-i486-4.tgz...

Pithium · 01-31-2021, 01:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by upnort

Simple suggestion for life: when in doubt presume good intentions. Trust me, the meaning is wholesome.

Not divisive at all and providing clues or clarifying would reveal the meaning and source. Although memories are fragile only people using Slackware back in the day would remember. Based on the replies some old timers do remember.

Just pointing out a quirk in online communication. The phrase comes with a significant amount of baggage for some women so a little bit of empathy goes a long way. Not trying to accuse anyone of anything. If you've never been witness to a situation in which someone has been singled out in an online community then I don't expect you to notice that twist and those who have are significantly more likely to see it that way.

Personally, I just wanted to make sure the meaning was on the public record to avoid false claims of sexism. That's all.

upnort · 01-31-2021, 01:37 PM

Quote:

If you've never been witness to a situation in which someone has been singled out in an online community then I don't expect you to notice that twist and those who have are significantly more likely to see it that way.

I've noticed many times and I have been online since the 1980s. I am more than well aware that many people are jack asses when online. Jack asses in real life too. Doesn't change my preference to first presume good intentions before getting into a spitting contest.

A couple of people posted the source for "It's a girl!" For the sake of fun I would have preferred people solved the puzzle on their own but oh well.

Gnisho · 01-31-2021, 01:47 PM

Any old-timers here?
Yup.

Did you download floppy images with a modem?
Yup.

Did you download or buy the first version on CD?
Neither, went from whatever version prior to CD release to buying 'Slackware 96' at some random vendor stall in the Seoul electronics district.

Do you use zipslack?

Yup! On a ZipDisk even, for a bit.

Do you remember the version jump from 4 to 7?

Yup. Eyeroll about version number inflation.

Were you one of the acerbic members of the Slackware newsgroup?

Barely got into usenet, really, other than a few months playing around on alt.hackers
.
Do you use linuxpackages.net?

Not regularly, but a few times.

Do you remember "It's a girl!"?

Nope. And now that it's been explained in thread, I was very much otherwise occupied around that time.

Do you remember Linux 2.6 being in /testing for three releases?

Just that 2.6 was in testing for entirely too long.

Do you remember hotplug?

Nope.

Do you remember when slackbuilds.org went live?

Nope.

Perhaps you are an original 1.0 Slacker?

IIRC, started poking at Linux around kernel 0.98 patchlevel something or other and slackware not too long after. It's been on-again and off-again ever since.

Regnad Kcin · 01-31-2021, 02:06 PM

Any old-timers here?
66.

Did you download floppy images with a modem?
no

Did you download or buy the first version on CD?
no

Do you use zipslack?
no

Do you remember the version jump from 4 to 7?
no

Were you one of the acerbic members of the Slackware newsgroup?

No

Do you use linuxpackages.net?
no

Do you remember "It's a girl!"?
Yes, Yes, No, No, Yes, Yes.

Do you remember Linux 2.6 being in /testing for three releases?
no

Do you remember hotplug?
no

Do you remember when slackbuilds.org went live?
no

Perhaps you are an original 1.0 Slacker?
no

I do remember Term> talk
and Press NEXT to begin.

FTIO · 01-31-2021, 02:34 PM

It was either 10.0 or 10.1, possibly even one of the 9.x's, onto CD's, and it was downloaded over a modem as I hadn't got off a landline connection until around 2012 or so. I'd been a SuSE user of several years and getting really tired of the rpm hell - it don't work well with dial-up, just made me sick to my stomach all the waiting all the time trying to get stuff done.

Any of the other things I can't remember...I've slept since then.

Oh, and just for the S's and Giggles, I'll be 59 the 20th of this month. I also am remembering coming to the forum to read up on how to do 'things kernel'. Tried it even a time or two, of course these were when it was kernel 2.x IIRR.

animeresistance · 01-31-2021, 06:26 PM

Any old-timers here?

- 44 years old in here, but I think its not the answer to the question

Did you download floppy images with a modem?

- Nop, I used the internet of my university to download the floppies and then it took me like 2 weeks to copy all the files into my pc.

Did you download or buy the first version on CD?

- I downloaded the floppies

Do you use zipslack?

- No

Do you remember the version jump from 4 to 7?

- No, in those days I was distro hopping

Were you one of the acerbic members of the Slackware newsgroup?

- No

Do you use linuxpackages.net?

- No

Do you remember "It's a girl!"?

- No

Do you remember Linux 2.6 being in /testing for three releases?

- No, in those days I downloaded the kernel source in another pc with a modem and compiled it to enable de SCSI emulation to use the CD-burner.

Do you remember hotplug?

- Yep, I read of it.

Do you remember when slackbuilds.org went live?

- Nop

Perhaps you are an original 1.0 Slacker?

- Nop.
Post your stories.

First I downloaded Slackware 4.0, I was used to a windows world, almost all in a "pretty" gui, somehow I managed to install it, but I got stuck in the command line, so intimidating at those days, so I switched to RH 5, then switched to mandriva, and backwards to RH, until one day, I rediscovered Slackware, I saved money to buy the CDs, my first CD was Slackware 9.0, since then Slackware is my main distro.

babydr · 01-31-2021, 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by upnort

Any old-timers here?
Started with Slackware in 1992 .

Did you download floppy images with a modem?
No , at that time I was the only Internet Engineer at a Modem Banked ISP in Tacoma Wa. , I used their network . Then ...

Did you download or buy the first version on CD?
I have bought Every cd or dvd distribution AND downloaded .

Do you use zipslack?
No .

Do you remember the version jump from 4 to 7?
Yes .

Were you one of the acerbic members of the Slackware newsgroup?
No .

Do you use linuxpackages.net?
Occasionally . For odddball packages that do not have slackbuild scripts .

Do you remember "It's a girl!"?
Yes

Do you remember Linux 2.6 being in /testing for three releases?
Yes

Do you remember hotplug?
Never used it .

Do you remember when slackbuilds.org went live?
Nope , That was a complete suprise to me .

Perhaps you are an original 1.0 Slacker?
Nope , I rememver getting my hands on 0.92 (oops that was the kernel it was running) , To bad all the floppies/cd & Backups from that era are either destroyed or trashed .

Post your stories.

I did the System building and Routing configurations thru out the network , And all the systems upgrading , blah blah blah ...