My oldest laptop is a 15 year old compaq with Vista stickers on it.It has 4GB RAM and its original HD. I run slackware 14.2 on it and it flies! I leave the stickers on to see the reaction from the IT support guy at work when it runs faster than some Windows 11 desktop.

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I stayed off -current for about one week! As soon as I saw all those upgrades in the changelog my willpower went. So I am sitting here drinking Oban 14 single malt while enjoying 15.0 -current with a big smile on my face. I have no will power for booze either!

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Yes, Slackware really can make old hardware sing!

I have a c.2003 AMD Athlon XP box that I use for 24/7 BOINC crunching, running 14.2.

And, then there's my dandy 1998-model i586 "appliance" box that on my LAN acts as router/firewall, DNS & DHCP server, NTP time server, CUPS print server, and fax machine all in one! (Complete with 5.25" floppy drive ) Here's a pic. All I can say is, "Long live Slackware!"

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I quit booze cold turkey on Jan 1, 1994 and have not had so-much-as a single drop of alcohol since.

I quit Slackware64-current for 1 week and am now right back onto it. ;-)

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Those pictures take me back in time. I had an AMD Athlon in 2004, it's long gone I'm sad to say. I am a teacher and we used to use Acorn computers in school in the early '90s. The programs were loaded using pretty large floppy disks, much larger than the 3.5" that became standard later. I wonder if these were 5.25" disks? They probably were. I'm at the same school, maybe the disks are still in a cupboard somewhere.

I've just remembered, I have a Pentium 4 512Mb RAM XP machine in the loft (attic). It hasn't spun its disks in ten years or more... It worked fine, if a little slowly, in 2012 or so. Could Slackware breathe new life into it?

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My P-II 266Mhz with only 512Mb of RAM runs Slackware-14.0

It's a bit on the slow side by today's standards but it _does_ run just fine.

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Wow!! Congratulations!! I quit drinking May 23, 2015.

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I got my old PC down from the loft, its a P-III 866Mhz, not a P4. Its not as good as I thought it was, but I was proud of it. I will find time to try Slackware on it.

I changed my plans. I originally planned on putting a laptop on 15.0, today I just switched that laptop back to slackware64-current. So... everything I have is now back on slackware64-current. I have also decide to not do a clean installation on this desktop. Last clean install on this desktop was 2010. I don't think it will solve my logout to the CLI issue anyway.

Hot dang, you guys still have those old machines? I wish I could remember what happened with my ones. I only remember having a 2GHz one back in about 2000, and befoere that 400MHz, but I can't remember what I had between those, or where the 400mhz and 2ghz are..

Yes, that was back when everything performance wise was still in the Hz race. It's quite ironic in a way, because at that time I would never have imagined I would be running any machine with 2ghz(+-) decades later. I think I even had a machine that hit peak 3.9ghz a few years later. And I don't know many machines that clock that high or more these days.

About a decade after the 3.9ghz I was on a 3.5ghz desktop

o/

I quit smoking 2007, can I apply too?

Since we're off on a tangent, I'm a twofer. Quit the booze in 'Sep 85 and the smokes in Mar '10. Life (at 75) is good!

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And using GNU/Linux! Awesome
And a slacker! Very awesome
And even using slackware-current! Admirable

I couldn't imagine getting my parents to do that, and they're about 10ish years younger.

So? I'm 76. But I don't use -current by choice. I only set it up as a bridge to Slackware-15.

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I know, and it's awesome
You're awesome.