Amen! (Praise Bob)
My first Slackware system required a bunch of floppy disks, maybe 1996?.
Business partners and myself at the time thought Debian was a better
choice and we never did any projects with that Slackware.
Later on and working as a sole proprietor, I needed pretty firm
real-time performance and decided to try RTLinux developed at New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology. The RTLinux patches at the time
required a standard kernel as released by the kernel developers which
was what Slackware shipped with. So I went back to Slackware and stayed
there even after the standard kernels evolved to having a option to
recompile to decent real-time performance.
I am retired now, but last year a customer from 2011 wanted to update
one of my systems. It is a distributed processing system doing some
optimization on logs that are up to 70 Ft. in length with some machine
control. The system originally utilized 6 ea. 6 core Athlons running 32
bit Slackware. I moved the system to Slackware64 current (current in May
2021) running on a SuperMicro SuperServer with 2 ea 12 core Xeon
processors. Man what a machine!
I am old now and I guess that was my swan song. I made a living for
years using Slackware and was able to save enough to retire comfortably.
Wayne
On 2/3/22 1:27 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
It finally happened! Slackware 15.0 has been released!
http://www.slackware.com/
The world's oldest active Linux distro lives on! Praise Bob!
-Ben
