• BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
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    1 year ago

    I’m not that old of a linux user, I think Slack may have been the second distro that I tried in probably 2000 after starting on Mandrake

    • Corngood@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I was just going to post the same thing. I actually split downloading duties with a friend of mine when we both had 1 (or maybe 2?) hr / day on our ISPs.

      We even used coloured floppies to colour code the package sets.

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    1 year ago

    Cool to see.

    I am curious though, does Slackware do anything that other Distros can’t?

    Is there a reason to choose it over say Debian or Fedora aside from it being around for so long and the nostalgia factor

    • Owl@mander.xyz
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      1 year ago

      More stable than Debian.

      Useful for controlling your homemade nuclear reactor’s cooling system.