<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I've always used slackware on my servers. I've been running a web-server/proxy-server on one machine for over 10 years now. It's always had slackware on it. I just upgraded to slackware 14.x (don't remember sub-release number, but the newest), and it's the only thing I'll run on a server. Because I always know everything that's going on with it. <br>
<br></div>Slackware was my very first linux experience- way back when Slack 2.0 was the latest and greatest. I love slackware. <br><br></div>This machine, however, is running lubuntu. A highly-customized lubuntu. Which I like a lot.<br>
<br></div>Wonder how much Micro$loth and Crapple paid Adobe to stop supporting linux with their flash distributions? I had to install windblows to access Xfinity on anything other than my droid-pad and my iphone. bleeeech.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Dustin Strickland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com" target="_blank">dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">My last experience with Slackware was Salix OS. I'd dabbled with<br>
Slackware before, and I liked it enough to use it on a few machines.<br>
About 3 years ago, I got a secondhand Dell laptop with a Pentium M. I<br>
wanted to use it without spending a week fine-tuning from a fresh<br>
Slackware install, so I put Salix on it.I went in their IRC channel<br>
asking for help with this really funky legacy nvidia driver that had me<br>
stumped for a few days. When I said "Salix", I got a bunch of "Why are<br>
you even here, we don't support Slackware-based distros," "Why don't you<br>
just install Slackware and then install everything you need by hand like<br>
it was meant to be done?" Everything short of "Why do you need graphics<br>
drivers when you have a serial port?" When that laptop died, that was<br>
the last time I touched Slack outside of a VM.<br>
<br>
I generally don't disown a piece of software because of the community<br>
that uses it, but Slack is the exception. They seemed to be arrogant,<br>
elitist assholes and I didn't want to be lumped in with that crowd -- I<br>
am proud to be an arrogant, elitist asshole and I didn't want my use of<br>
a particular OS to take the credit for it :P<br>
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On 07/26/2014 01:21 PM, William Coles wrote:<br>
><br>
> On 7/26/2014 11:37 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
>> Slackware 8.0 and 8.1 were my distro of choice back then when I had to<br>
>> build server. I've actually managed to fit base install + apache + php +<br>
>> mysql + pppoe server in 170 MB harddrve. We used in mainly for pppoe<br>
>> server<br>
>> but we did test some php scripting, slow but was working.<br>
>><br>
>> The reason I'm asking is just curiosity. Nobody post questions for<br>
>> Slackware perhaps nobody using Slackware.<br>
>><br>
>> Even I can remember reading anything on the web news ...<br>
><br>
> I used to run Slackware on an x86 machine (Pentium 4) back in 2002 or<br>
> so. That was my first time running Linux. It came on a CD included with<br>
> the _Unix Bible_ (2nd Edition). Now I've switched to the other side of<br>
> the spectrum, and am running CentOS because my interest is more geared<br>
> towards learning applications in an enterprise environment (i.e. systems<br>
> administration, security, etc.).<br>
><br>
> William<br>
><br>
><br>
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