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Recently Slackware the oldest surviving Linux distro turned 30 years old so I thought what better time to look back and the origin of this legendary distro and see how we got here.

> Recently Slackware the oldest surviving Linux distro turned 30 years old so I thought what better time to look back and the origin of this legendary distro and see how we got here.

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Former slacker reporting in. 10/10 would recommend. My happiest computing days were using Slackware.

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The real question is: Do you still use it? And if not, why?

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Nope, but I miss it. I use Debian today for one of the pure blends (Freedom box).

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Wow, I've not ran slack in years. Maybe I'll go spin up a vm or something to see how it's aged.