Linux Time Machine? Slackware 15 RC Just Released! 

Aww man blast from the past. I remember starting my Linux journey with Slackware back in 1999 and having to recompile kernel drivers for my soundcard and modem on a Pentium II.

Discovered Slackware in 1996, always had at least one machine running it here since. It just works as always and I'm a bit impressed with the newest KDE Plasma releases too. Good video intro for those less familiar with The Way of Slackware, agree with your defaults except I leave startup at runlevel 3 :)

Wow! Takes me back to the old RedHat 7 days... Running Bind and Send mail as a dialup ISP Used to recycle old 486s and pentiums as firewalls with ipchains. Love the in depth dives of your videos!

Nice video. The creation of user accounts is typically performed using the 'adduser' tool, which handles the group settings with the workflow ending in setting the user details and password.

I don't remember which version, but I started with Slackware in 2005. I do remember trying the slamd64 ports prior to the official release of Slackware64. I remember all the learning I got from the kernel compile times! Fun days! For the longest time, Slackware was my fallback to distribution. I would go and try the new distributions, but they were always "not Slackware!" and I became quite proficient at the installation process! :D Good trip down memory lane!

Excellent video! Slackware was my very first experience for Linux following SCO Unix. It is really long time ago.

Great video. Enjoying your content... and learning a fair bit too.

Brilliantable Old School! Thank You!

Just found your channel! Love it and keep it up! I’d appreciate any videos you’d do on BSD. :)

Slackware 3.3 was my first experience with Linux in the mid 90's. The kernel was 2.0.30 or thereabouts and it ran on a 386dx @ 33 mhz with 4 Mb of ram PC clone. I tried to install XFree86 but never got it to work so I had to settle with having to use Lynx to go "web surfing"

Slackware was the very first GNU/Linux distribution I ever used way back in 1997. I even met Patrick Volkerding at Comdex in 2000. That's when I told him I switched to FreeBSD (and never looked back). He was OK with it considering at the time he worked for Walnut Creek CDROM who also distributed FreeBSD CDROM's. I still have a Slackware branded screwdriver he gave me. LOL

Отличное видео, спасибо!

thanks for the video!

I had forgotten that Slackware looked SO much like Windows 3.0 installation screens!

Slackware was the first distro I ever used, installed it on a 386dx machine with only 4mb or ram, 50mb HD and two floppy disks. You only needed one floppy disk IF you had at least 8mb of ram, but you could actually run the system in only 4mb (with only one floppy, you needed a 4mb ram disk to hold the system image while installing.)

The Slackware homepage layout looks the same as I remember from the 1990s. Oh the days of floppy disk installations!

Still using Slackware on my personal machines, due mainly to the fact that it causes far fewer "What the hell were they thinking?" moments than any other distribution I've tried. No systemd is another major attraction.

Wow very good video very knowledgable video thanks for make video

2 questions: 1. does shutter screen capture software work on it? 2: can ncpmount be installed on it (to mount NFS)

I like that it works and feels like 15 years ago. Thats a good thing when I'm doing the same thing I was doing 15 years ago. And many scripts still work like 15 years ago. But I'm tired of library inconsistency in Linux. In that matter linux developer world work together like brainless ameba.

The title and the content of this sound like Slack still lives in the 90s. I wonder why no-one talks about Debian like this.

I remember those days with 17 to 24 slackware disks. Ha! Happy not to go back then.

Not so light. Bodhi Linux 6.0 runs with 180-250Mb RAM usage. (6% RAM usage on 4GB memory)