Slackware 13.37: Linux for the fun of it

Posted Mar 22, 2011 23:54 UTC (Tue) by JoeF (guest, #4486)
Parent article: Slackware 13.37: Linux for the fun of it

Great writeup.
I am using Slackware since 1994. I came to it from Softlanding (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Softlandin...), which vanished in 1994. And Slack was based on SLS.
I am currently running Slack 12.2, still not ready for KDE 4 in Slack 13.

Slackware 13.37: Linux for the fun of it

Posted Mar 23, 2011 0:52 UTC (Wed) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246) [Link]

I got started similarly, starting with SLS in November '93 and then installing Slackware over it sometime in the next year. Stuck with Slackware through the rest of college.

I made the jump to RedHat around 4.2 though with the computer I bought after I graduated. Later I jumped to Ubuntu after seeing the mess that was RedHat 8 and 9. (Still have a RH 7.3 server though.)

I still remember all the hijinks I used to pull with my old Slackware box, though. All sorts of questionable customizations to the bootup scripts (a goofy "Linux 95" animation in SVGAlib that I hacked together, along with a tracker playing a MOD file with M.U.L.E's theme song), hacking my MAC address to match one of the school's computers to get on the campus network, routing our house's computers (after I moved off-campus) through a single 14.4k dialup connection with the shiny new "IP Masquerading", exporting NFS over dialup so I could run a bare-bones Linux boot from floppy on campus but execute executables compiled at home locally on campus, the 1152x864 "tweaked" SVGA mode in X (with all the apps running remotely on a Sun, 'cause I had only 4MB of RAM at the time)...

So much fun!