[wellylug] Slackware packages

[Richard Hector]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 19:32 +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote:

> How many people started with Slackware many many years ago and moved on 
> to other distros?

Bah. Noobs.

I started with SLS.

Admittedly I didn't stick it out for very long that time; there's
limited space to dual boot Linux and DOS6/Win3.0 on a 20M disk, and I
didn't have X (I never did get it going with the Herc green screen).

When I returned to it a few years later, yes it was Slackware for a few
years before I was finally converted - I now run Debian. I think one of
the reasons I didn't switch earlier was that Debian's dependency
checking takes a fair bit of grunt, and probably RAM - when I tried to
install it (bo? 1.2 or 1.3?) on a 386sx25 with 4M of RAM, it took all
night to work out what it was doing ... I wasn't overly impressed. But
since I've been running slightly more decent hardware, it wins.

Richard