I too got into Slackware in '96, and confess that I still have an install at home. There will always be a soft spot in my heart for it. I remember going through about 200 floppy disks as only the university had bandwidth (28K paid dialup at home) and it taking weeks to get the first install as several attempts of downloads were necessary. These days, my Slackware runs in a VM and has all of the appropriate things like volume management, and still looks quite nice for its vintage.