Slackware Current With Help From Serge

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[tronus]

I started learning linux in 1999 with an old copy of Slackware 1. something. I spent hours and hours and hours running upstairs and downstairs to ask for help on IRC chat on one computer... then take files and whatnot back on a floppy disk to experiment/tinker. It was fun! I would "rice" window maker, enlightenment, fluxbox/openbox, and eventually xfce. I'm having fun watching this!

[ld]

No matter what distro I hop to, I always come back to Slackware. I've been living in it for about 3-4 years now and can't get away. I've tried going back to Arch, Fedora, Clear and a few other distros but I think I'll forever be a slacker.

Long live Slackware

[wednesdayrose]

Serge ..the oracle of Linux knowledge . Thanks for the info

[tubelarasa]

Great initiative!!
This is another example of why I like your channel so much DT, you pay attention to more 'social orientated' subjects as well.
And with Serge's help you really can't go wrong ;)
Great vid guys!

[BriansModelTrains]

My first linux distro was Slackware 3.5. Linux was younger and so was I.

[ritual]

I don't know what I was expecting really, but I don't think I was expecting Serge on vid. Awesome:D Serge is a fountain of Linux knowledge for sure. Thanks guys!

[elderberry-hamster]

DT how did you know my birthday was coming up soon? An in-depth video on Slackware guided by Serge. Wow, wishes do come true. Wonderful. Thank you both so much. Great stuff! 👍😁

[lowrider]

Thank you both dt and serge for this education. I live in linux (starting with debian ending on arch) for about 22 years now but never in slack. I am too lazy nowadays to go through the painless install of slack just to get rid of a ton of software that i don't need and doing time to search/download/check for what i want. But for the young. You find great satisfaction through some pain, go for it! ;) ;) ;) gOOD cLEAN lINUX fUN

[hotroof]

Serge is awesome. Very interesting distro. Great episode.

[kcbez]

That was absolutely excellent! This will be a great reference for many. I watched it twice myself. Many thanks to both DT and Serge!

[gimpysticks]

Derek and Serge this is a great video. Thank You so much.

[fa]

Terrific video. For those contemplating Slackdom, it's vital to watch until the end. Installation of Slackware can be a bit of a challenge. But installing new software is the real hurdle. Too much for me...

[beehive]

Thank you Master Serge and Derek for this amazing video!

[SilentRobot]

Nice! It's good to see this sort of thing. Not sure if you were sharing your screen Derek. Unsure of what version of Skype you were using but you can share screens now. Might be good to note for possible future remote collaborations, then Serge (or whoever) can see what you see.

Great video guys, really enjoyed this one!

[wjckc]

My first Linux install in 1996 was Slackware on a 486. I was never able to startx. Moving on, Slackware was my unquestionable go to distro well into the late 2000's. It took me a long to time to warm up to new fangled "easy software install" distros. Now I am running MX and will be moving to Solus at some point. I will always have a soft spot for Slackware. While I can see using it on a server, in many respects it fell behind, namely in package management.

[brettmurch]

This video seemed to make Slackware so much more complicated then it needed to be when it came to installing packages. Using slackpkgplus and sbopkg with queue files is more then enough to get packages. much easier.

[grenvillephillips]

It is great to meet the Linux guru. This was the video I was looking for. Hopefully I can test the Slackware waters with the binaries and move on to package building later. Fantastic stuff. Thanks!

[realmwatters]

Hi DT Really enjoyed your show on looking at Slackware keep up great work!

[enorbet]

It's important to realize that part of the Slackware philosophy of "being so big" (I'd suggest a partition size of 20GB or so for a "real" (not VM) install) is to insure everything works well together and far more important to most people, that most important dependencies are already in it making new packages easy with very little time spent manually resolving dependencies. It just works.

[pctlc]

Great video DT enjoyed watching that, thanks for your knowledge Serge, good to have a face and voice to the mystery typist.