A New Release of Slackware! Worth The Wait?

37 thoughts on “A New Release of Slackware! Worth The Wait?”

• My first distro, like 10 years ago. With fluxbox. I've come back to Linux after a long time and I hate it 😂. But this is making me nostalgic for a simpler time. I liked Slackware as it taught you how the OS actually WORKS and it was stable as a rock. Everything else I've used is fragile as hell.

• Oh boy this brings me back..
  Spent an entire summer as kid to get Slackware installed so that I was able to share internet around the home with a hub. Great times 🙂

• Excellent installation walkthrough DT! I am going to try this out on a VM.

• So, DT, you didn't need to install a boot partition when you installed this on your VM? I am reckoning if you're installing this on actual hardware that has OSes on other drives, you would need to do this correct?

• "cfdisk" gives better experience while formatting.

  Easily.

• im 0:01 second in and seeing / hearing dt has made me smile already

• I love how Slackware supports 32bit OS.

• Wtf is this distro, it's older than my uncle 😂

• You look really tired man

• The sane package manager, aka installation scripts, just works

• Slackware was the distro I leaned Linux on back in the early 90s. I remember being at a computer show and seeing a disk set and saying to myself, this looks user-friendly. Boy was I in for a surprise.

• One suggestion for any future install demos: use UEFI firmware, whether it's a VM or physical hardware. UEFI is a bit more involving, and that's the future we're heading into anyway.

• There is adduser command in Slackware that walks you through adding an user and suggests groups. Just saying.

• Slackware based distros are very fast.

• I am more than a little surprised that I still remembered the correct letter and number for creating a swap partition in fdisk, the last time I did that was when I tried gentoo 2004.2

• I installed Slackware 13.37 and bought the T-shirt….just because I could. 😉

• Just use slackware current and you have daily new versions. Even Mint and Buntu cannot cope with that.

• One issue that still always puzzled me is dealing with swap. Say for example you have a large amount of ram on your system. I presently have 32gigs when creating the swap is it a 1:1 i.e my swap would be 32gigs? Is it a percentage i.e maybe 10gigs or is it jus enough to hold some minor things on the hardrive if the ram somehow runs out and can be 1 or 2 gigs.

• I suppose this is the 64 bit version. Is there a 32 bit version of Slackware 15 as well?

• Slack was one of my first linux experiences.

• All the work is done upfront and once. You rarely have to go fixing things. Ideal distro for slackers or people that want to do things on their computers and not having to spend much time managing it.
  It does not break either!

  All my server and daily driver needs. Slackware stable on servers and current on daily driver laptop.

• @2:04 Finally, the slackers decided to quit slacking and release a new version of Slackware instead. 😘
  @36:57 Ask the slackers. 😂

• I want to try Slackware just because it depends on the terminal. I want to get better at using the Linux terminal

• We must respect our elders.Much respect to slackware.

• I remember Slackware my second distro that "pushed" me to learn how to compile vanilla kernel because stock Slackware kernel was too old. That knowledge worth fortune because compiling kernel manually was introduced me to various linux technology, i.e. I was really excited with linux bridge project and powerful iptables possibilities (this is way before Mikrotik even exist).

• How do I make the ext 4 partition bootable?

• the best description I've heard of slackware is that it's the oak tree of distros. it's slow growing and stable, provides everything you need. I've been using it where ever I can since about 2010 and that taught me so much about linux back in the day.

• Thanks a ton I learned a lot

• Magazine. 1994.

• SSHD being on by default is really dodgy.
  Some users don't know what it is, or that it exists, some users will have a shitty password, some users won't protect it with a hardened configuration, a firewall or Fail2ban.

• I actually like that it doesnt depend on a package manager, just put binaries in the right place and run them ezpz

• Some Debian base Linux user say Slackware is outdated hahaha.. if you want to learn Linux use Slackware that what all Pro always say.

• Realistically, one release every 6 years is pretty poor. Expect dependency hell, too, if you want to install the trickier software. You're likely to be better off with FreeBSD, which has dependency management, recent software, binary downloads and an extensive selection of packages.

  I run Debian Stable on my desktop.

• Slackware was the first Linux distribution I ever really loved way back in the 90s. Thank you for getting us up to speed on what's happening with it now.

• Mplayer, SMplayer lmao. Oh the memories.

• Lol, did this in '95, 27 years ago. Fun times..

• 570mb with plasma. Damn that's nice.
  It should be very lightweight with something like ratpoison. I haven't used slackware nearly 15 years but i'm gonna try it out the current version in vm for a while.

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