http://www.basicconfig.com/

linuxquestions.org is indispensable although people can be kind of short cause some were suckled on linux. lol Post install:
http://slackblogs.blogspot.com/2011/...ctivities.html

http://duganchen.ca/writings/slackware/setup

Old Slackware Linux Unleashed + SAMs Teach Yourself Linux in 10 Minutes...Commands, Navigating Directories + Slackware Essential should be plenty.. wikis on this forum and search for similar topics tool, lots of times don't post new topic just use title to search this forum More and more slackware sites. Change logs and hints text is essential reading, understand slackware directory where slackware parts -software goes. /usr/docs has howto . Documentation gets thick and too dry just look for steps and do it. Have Fun with Slackware.

I started on linux in my early college years 2001-2002. We had pirated versions of windows 2000 running around. But I decided I would work with something that was actually legal. I tried to get Red Hat and Mandrake running, but they were dogslow on my computer. I eventually settled on slackware / fluxbox because at least my interface was interactive. 350Mhz Celeron.

Now my computer is much faster, but I still enjoy the fast interface of fluxbox and the ability to do pretty much anything I want in about 4 seconds. (1 second to bring up the terminal, 3 seconds to type out my command).

I currently use linux as a SAMBA server at work, so the students can have their individual folders to save work, and I can reach my files from any computer at work (I happen to be the tech fixit guy), and as my personal computer. Not all schoolwide programs work with linux, but there's always a windows computer around if I need to use it.

As far as old-thread resurrections - this is one of the better ones to bring back. I love to hear people's stories.

Edit - Oh I learned linux by just dumping my illegal versions of windows and trying it. I used google a lot, and ended up here at linuxquestions because of it. Its one of the best resources for linux or slackware.

I bought a copy of Caldera's Linux v 1.2, I think it was, and this was around 2000 or so. I had been reading in computer mags about this new OS that was free to download and became interested in that idea. It was alot of trial & error installing it and getting things setup the way i wanted. I had to manually install kde first version for my desktop.

I installed it on a PI 133mhz system which wasn't the latest during this time but was for me.

I started in 2007 when I started my second year of university. Had a bunch of programming classes and they wanted us to build everything for Linux and gave us access to some Linux servers to work on. Well, as some others and I quickly found out, the servers get real busy sometimes with multiple classes of people all trying to do stuff at once, so I dual-booted Ubuntu. Summer of 2009 I switched to Slackware because I was working a co-op and living at home, where there was no internet (pain in the ass for dependency checking). Been using it Slackware ever since.

I don't know who U is. However, it is a very unusual name. I though started with Red Hat 5.2.

samac

Back in 1994 I had a computer with Windows (Dos and Windows 3.1). I wanted to learn C++ and was searching for a compiler. There was Borland, but it was relatively expensive and because a was a student I couldn't afford it. Then I heard about Linux which was quite new back then. I orderd Slackware which came as about 60 floppy-discs in a packages and installed Linux. I've been using Slackware ever since these days.
So I learned Linux. Of course I've tried other distributions later, but I always came back to Slackware.

Markus

I've written about how and when I started with Linux in the first exciting ( )episode of my LQ blog.

Could be U Thant, he was Secretary General of the UN years ago?

I started learning Linux (or rather how to use GCC and to program c++) a couple years before I actually performed my first Linux installation, this was for a college type course (non credit) and we were accessing the system via telnet (actually it was Novell unixware, but similar enough from my perspective since I didn't have root access), this is what first piqued my curiosity about Linux.

Later on when I was actually IN college, I actually was able to install Linux on my computer (Yellow dog champion server) on a powerbook g3 'wallstreet' and searched infoseek (yes, infoseek USED to be a very competent search site), then switched to Google when infoseek went down the toilet.

eventually I bought a book about Redhat Linux (came with an install CD of redhat 6.2), installed that on an old (even for the time, which was several years ago) machine that I had laying around collecting dust and expanded on my existing knowledge of Linux (how to network two Linux machines, how to use serial terminals as TTYs etc..), it was also about this time that I found LQ and have learned A LOT about Linux here as well.

Now I am up to fedora 15 (started with redhat 6.2) and am STILL learning a lot of the changes that have been made over the years.

In 1999/2000 I took two Junior College classes, both the beginner and then the intermediate class. Both were "Learning Unix By Way of or by practicing on Linux".

We were actually on Win 2K boxes and each student used a terminal window and each of us had a logon onto one of the school's Linux server.

So, we just had commands in a terminal and nothing more. The intermediate class also did some bash scripting.

I had RedHat installed at home -- this was in the days before Fedora arrived on the scene. I did my class homework on my RedHat box at home.

I also tried Suse, Debian, CentOS, Mandriva or Mandrake or whatever it was.

But, out of all the distros, Slackware is the only one that I kept coming back to.

And I've been strictly with Slackware since 2000/2001. Prior to that time I had Slackware on one box and another of the other distro on another box.

Once I learned Slackware I have what I need.

"It's Slackware: **DO** what you want". Lends itself to I get to make/setup/configure it a desktop or a server, firewall, etc.

I dropped MS for Linux at Win 2K. Got the msblast on Win 2k back then.

I've not had a compromised computer since that switch to Linux.

I learned Slackware here and at the next NNTP news group (or google group) AOLS (Alt > OS > Linux > Slackware

And I also learned at Slackware user and developer wikis and web sites.

BTW I didn't know it when I was taking those two junior college classes but they did prep me a bit for (doing sys admin on) Slackware. As well as the way, the *nix way (commands and pipe one command to another as well as all of the other *nix principles/traditions).

Good stuff. Powerful.

--
Alan.

I started my Linux adventure with Caldera Linux 2.3 in 2002; it ran quite well on PI 166 with 32 MB RAM. I did some distro hopping and found Slackware 10.0 in 2004.
Slackware is the one for me.