Slackware, The love affair
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010One of my earliest memories of Linux was of slackware. The hardcore distro, the most unix-like Linux of all Linuxes, it enshrined my geekyness. Our revered maestro is Pat Volkerding.
Linux is widespread now mainly because of Canonical’s ubuntu. It’s ease of use, it just ‘works’.
This establishes a 2-tier system of Linux that only previously existed [...]