I happened to be reading Chapter 1 of the Slackware Book this morning and
section 1.2 states that on July 17, 1993, P.V. released Slackware (I saw
recently in this NG that July 16, 1993 was the release). I started with
Slackware 3.0 in September 1996 and a month or so later picked up a
Slackware '96 CD set. I cut my Linux teeth on Slack and in '99 was drawn
to try Debian which I have run since.

Lately, I've wanted to do some development in as pure Linux system as I knew
and I put 10.2 on my laptop (Thinkpad T23) and have been enjoying Slack
again for the past week or so. I have to say that KDE works very well and
seems much lighter on resources in Slack than Debian (not a flame, just a
seat-of-the-pants observation).

So, to P.V., the developers, and everyone involved with Slackware over the
years, Happy Birthday!

- Nate >>

Nate Bargmann wrote:

> I put 10.2 on my laptop (Thinkpad T23) and have been enjoying Slack
> again for the past week or so. *I have to say that KDE works very well and
> seems much lighter on resources in Slack than Debian (not a flame, just a
> seat-of-the-pants observation).

We also find that Slack runs well on old hardware... faster than most of the
Debian variants at least. However if you want 'fast' give Damn Small Linux
a try. Or try Slack without KDE... use Ice instead.

On modern hardware I don't see any difference in Deb., Slack, SUSE, or
PCLinuxOS in speed on the desktop. We use Kanotix on our desktops because
of the package management system. Lots of Slackware people hate the
dep-check system of Debian, but we've never had a problem with apt-get...
but we only keep a few packages current... OpenOffice, KDE (and all it's
utils), and the GIMP.

anc

ANC wrote:

> Nate Bargmann wrote:
>
>> I put 10.2 on my laptop (Thinkpad T23) and have been enjoying Slack
>> again for the past week or so. *I have to say that KDE works very well
>> and seems much lighter on resources in Slack than Debian (not a flame,
>> just a seat-of-the-pants observation).
>
> We also find that Slack runs well on old hardware... faster than most of
> the Debian variants at least. However if you want 'fast' give Damn Small
> Linux a try. Or try Slack without KDE... use Ice instead.

I'm a long time IceWM user (about eight years now, originally installed on
my (by then) FrankenSlack system) and only within the past year have begun
using KDE regularly. I have tried DSL and like it, but for the default WM
which may be lighter than Ice hence its inclusion.

- Nate >>

Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net> wrote:
> I happened to be reading Chapter 1 of the Slackware Book this morning and
> section 1.2 states that on July 17, 1993, P.V. released Slackware (I saw
> recently in this NG that July 16, 1993 was the release). I started with

Well, then it is a good occasion to google up these posts.

Slackware first announced (Pat says it it a bit "bloated"):
Message-ID: <21pk2b$h45@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>

First named:
Message-ID: <21s917$s6c@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>

Slackware first released:
Message-ID: <227gd4$jtq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>

And, of course, why the name:
Message-ID: <3b2kf3$lid@nkosi.well.com>

- Kurt