[ale] Slackware anyone

[William Wylde]

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.

Slackware was my very first linux experience- way back when Slack 2.0 was
the latest and greatest.  I love slackware.

This machine, however, is running lubuntu.  A highly-customized lubuntu.
Which I like a lot.

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.


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Dustin Strickland <
dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com> wrote:

> My last experience with Slackware was Salix OS. I'd dabbled with
> Slackware before, and I liked it enough to use it on a few machines.
> About 3 years ago, I got a secondhand Dell laptop with a Pentium M. I
> wanted to use it without spending a week fine-tuning from a fresh
> Slackware install, so I put Salix on it.I went in their IRC channel
> asking for help with this really funky legacy nvidia driver that had me
> stumped for a few days. When I said "Salix", I got a bunch of "Why are
> you even here, we don't support Slackware-based distros," "Why don't you
> just install Slackware and then install everything you need by hand like
> it was meant to be done?" Everything short of "Why do you need graphics
> drivers when you have a serial port?" When that laptop died, that was
> the last time I touched Slack outside of a VM.
>
> I generally don't disown a piece of software because of the community
> that uses it, but Slack is the exception. They seemed to be arrogant,
> elitist assholes and I didn't want to be lumped in with that crowd -- I
> am proud to be an arrogant, elitist asshole and I didn't want my use of
> a particular OS to take the credit for it :P
>
> On 07/26/2014 01:21 PM, William Coles wrote:
> >
> > On 7/26/2014 11:37 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> >> Slackware 8.0 and 8.1 were my distro of choice back then when I had to
> >> build server. I've actually managed to fit base install + apache + php +
> >> mysql + pppoe server in 170 MB harddrve. We used in mainly for pppoe
> >> server
> >> but we did test some php scripting, slow but was working.
> >>
> >> The reason I'm asking is just curiosity. Nobody post questions for
> >> Slackware perhaps nobody using Slackware.
> >>
> >> Even I can remember reading anything on the web news ...
> >
> > I used to run Slackware on an x86 machine (Pentium 4) back in 2002 or
> > so. That was my first time running Linux. It came on a CD included with
> > the _Unix Bible_ (2nd Edition). Now I've switched to the other side of
> > the spectrum, and am running CentOS because my interest is more geared
> > towards learning applications in an enterprise environment (i.e. systems
> > administration, security, etc.).
> >
> > William
> >
> >
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