Slackware Linux Distribution Turns 30 Years Old

'This week the Slackware Linux project is celebrating its 30th anniversary. It is the oldest Linux distribution that is still in active maintenance and development. The Register reports: Version 1.0 of Slackware was announced on the July 16, 1993, and project lead Patrick Volkerding, who still maintains the distribution today, celebrated with a modest announcement: "Hey folks! It's time to acknowledge another one of those milestones... 30 (!) years since I made the post linked below announcing Slackware's first stable release after months of beta testing. Thanks to all of our dedicated contributors, loyal users, and those who have helped us to keep the lights on here. It's really been a remarkable journey that I couldn't have anticipated starting out back in 1993. Cheers! :-)"' -- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/07/21/2138223 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ Mobile +64 22 190 2375 https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:22:05 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'This week the Slackware Linux project is celebrating its 30th anniversary. It is the oldest Linux distribution that is still in active maintenance and development.'
I can remember Volkerding announcing that he was adopting PulseAudio. He tried to make it clear at the time that this was not some kind of slippery slope, that having embraced one of Lennart Poettering’s works into Slackware, he wasn’t going to allow the incursion of another--namely systemd. But now that PulseAudio has been superseded by PipeWire, which works better with systemd than without, I wonder what will happen?
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Peter Reutemann