Subj : Re: Slackware 14.2 Sale [Was: CD Distribution Sale]
To   : Nightfox
From : Vk3jed
Date : Fri Aug 18 2017 06:53 am

-=> Nightfox wrote to KK4QBN <=-

Ni> Me too, Slackware was the first Linux I saw.  Slackware was one of the
Ni> first, and I think many people who looked at Linux in the early days
Ni> probably had a look at Slackware..  I haven't used it in years though.
Ni> I'm not sure it had much of a package manager (perhaps it does now?).
Ni> I remember reading a review on Slackware where someone described it
Ni> basically as an "image of some guy's hard drive".. :P

Slackware was the second distro I tried.  Worked pretty well, solid and
reliable, but apt and yum make distributions much easier to manage.  I switched
to Red Hat (and related), and in the last 5-10 years switched again to Debian.

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