I am curious how many people here use Slackware ?
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Oh I use Slackware.
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I used Slackware, but that was over 20 years ago. It was one of the few distros available at the time.
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Used. That was back then in the early-ish Linux days, about 25 years ago, when I was first exposed to Linux. My father installed it to our system and dual booted it. I seem to remember seeing LILO (linux loader, prior to GRUB), and typing startx and had some fun playing some of the silly free games.
I tried again around 2018-ish and I cant remember why I couldn’t install it on bare metal. I may try again later when I get home on a VM.
I hope Patrick Volkerding is well. Is he still the sole maintainer of sorts?
Jesus, the site is still on vanilla HTTP (compared to HTTPS).
Yeah, I cant install this on bare metal on any of my devices as the kernel is still on 5.15
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Yes he sure is.
I have been thinking about OS’s and Slackware is the longest running distro
It is designed by a single guy
So many people complain
But those complainers didn’t spend a life time building an OS.
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Well, Saint Terry did… and he was perfectly stable… /s
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I’ve never had a single machine without Slackware in it, for the past, almost, 20 years.
kernel is still on 5.15
You can try current, it’s rolling realease and some time in the future becomes the next stable.
http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=x86_64
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inxi returns this
CPU: 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 2368/2200/5980 MHz
Kernel: 6.6.30 x86_64 Up: 8m Mem: 4.06/125.71 GiB (3.2%)
Storage: 5.23 TiB (11.3% used) Procs: 564 Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.35
Slackware 15-current Looks like kernel is 6.6.30
http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=x86_64
Yesterday, current got to 6.10.4.
Try update your system, either you use an old mirror or you have blacklisted those kernel packages.
Well I haven’t actually updated since I did this reinstall…
I got a new mother board…I guess I will update.
Thanks.
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I think Slackware was my very first Linux distribution back in high school (probably 97 or 98). By the time I started University, I had a quad boot system that ran Win98, Win2000, Slackware and BeOS 5 (using the BeOS bootloader because it had pretty colors).
My dad threw out most of my stuff while I was out of the country (except useless things like DVDs and old games … notes and gifts from your besties and high school sweetheart … trash), but one of the things still in my old boxes was a set of Linux Slackware 3.3 CDs (back when downloading this crap would take several nights of downloads over dialup).
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+1 For all the Unraid users. 
I believe the stat is, I could be wrong, that Unraid is largest user of Slackware today.
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