Me too! Slackware 1.0 installed by floppy disk … so much faff the first time to get X to load, and then the only thing I could do with it was to run xeyes.
Emacs was 5 floppies, the C compiler was about 11.
Same here, I got hired as a “webmaster” at a place that had been using some Yahoo web services for their website and they had dialup Internet accounts for everybody in the office. For the same money I got them access to a fractional T1 and set up a server on an old 486 gathering dust in the back room. We served up their webpages from in-house. They thought I was a god, I was just a big fat resume-padded liar who stayed up reading Usenet all night lol. Those were the days and I’ll never forget that distro:
I wish there was one that’s up to date today. I’d pay good money for that.
If you install Slackware now, you can’t open linuxquestions.org (the official support forum) because the Firefox version is too old for the Capcha. If you then do slackpkg upgrade-all and reboot, it won’t boot cause you forgot to point the bootloader towards the new kernel. Things like that can really bounce you off the distro.
Slack got me through college on an ancient (even at the time) ThinkPad 600e. Good times!
I had a suite of scripts to log in to the university Linux cluster, download the kernel source and out-of-tree modules (required for the PCMCIA WiFi adapter), compile it, and rsync it back to my laptop.
Slackware was my very first Linux distro (now I feel old).
Me too! Slackware 1.0 installed by floppy disk … so much faff the first time to get X to load, and then the only thing I could do with it was to run xeyes.
Emacs was 5 floppies, the C compiler was about 11.
Same here, I got hired as a “webmaster” at a place that had been using some Yahoo web services for their website and they had dialup Internet accounts for everybody in the office. For the same money I got them access to a fractional T1 and set up a server on an old 486 gathering dust in the back room. We served up their webpages from in-house. They thought I was a god, I was just a big fat resume-padded liar who stayed up reading Usenet all night lol. Those were the days and I’ll never forget that distro:
36-Page installation guide…
My first slackware install guide was a three inch thick book so 36 pages is like the absolute bare minimum.
I wish there was one that’s up to date today. I’d pay good money for that.
If you install Slackware now, you can’t open linuxquestions.org (the official support forum) because the Firefox version is too old for the Capcha. If you then do
slackpkg upgrade-alland reboot, it won’t boot cause you forgot to point the bootloader towards the new kernel. Things like that can really bounce you off the distro.Whaaa?
I will admit, I’ve never run slack.
Slack got me through college on an ancient (even at the time) ThinkPad 600e. Good times!
I had a suite of scripts to log in to the university Linux cluster, download the kernel source and out-of-tree modules (required for the PCMCIA WiFi adapter), compile it, and rsync it back to my laptop.