An Old Hacker Slaps Up Slackware 240
cdlu writes "What do you get when you mix an old hacker with an old distribution? A good old review of the recently released Slackware 10.2." Joe Barr over at Linux.com (owned by the same company as Slashdot) lays down his thoughts on everything from the install to reliability and user loyalty.
Old hacker? heck I started on Linux with Yggdrasil (Score:5, Funny)
First post for slackers (Score:4, Funny)
I thought Slackware was only for leet hackers, so why do they need a HowTo?
Old Hackers don't die
They become a zombie process and have to be kill -9
Mixing hacker with distribution? (Score:3, Funny)
Um, I get Hacktribution or distribacker.
Re:I like Slackware's minimalist approach, but... (Score:1, Funny)
SLS (Score:3, Funny)
Anyone else who's first Linux system was called "darkstar"?
Slackware despair poster (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Another useless "review" (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Slackware (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mixing hacker with distribution? (Score:3, Funny)
When your linux distro starts attacking you with a battle axe +4
--LWM
*blink* (Score:2, Funny)
It must be time for coffee...
Re:SLS (Score:4, Funny)
Sounds about right. Ah, the joys of manually calculating X modelines. And the terror of finding out that install disk 44 out of 50 had some bad sectors. [/geezer]
Re:Seems like a basic review of a basic Linux (Score:5, Funny)
See "RMS"
Re:Installed Slack in 1995 (Score:3, Funny)
That wasn't a crash, it was checkmate
I've been running Slackware since the distro was at version 0.96, which would be what? 1993? Sometimes, I long for the days of hand-configuring everything because there weren't any configutation scripts (that worked reliably) for X or PPP or any number of other things... Fun times
Re:SLS (Score:3, Funny)
Ah yep. 386DX machine with a whopping 8 megs of RAM, IIRC.
Ah, the joys of manually calculating X modelines.
Eh. You probably even had color displays.;-)
I ran Slackware 3.0 on a 386SX-16 w/4MB RAM with Hercules monochrome video. X windows is real interesting in 720x384 monochrome. Kernel compiles took around 4 hours.
win3.1? (Score:2, Funny)