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Comment by icedchai | Hacker News Reader

Slackware was my second Linux distro, after SLS. I ran a heavily customized Slackware for about 4 years: custom kernel, aout->ELF upgrade, many packages built from source.

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Wow! It sounds like you have seen a lot of major changes! But so far, no SysVinit->systemd nor dropping 32-bit i586 package builds for Slackware 15.0 and -current [0][1]. As someone new to Slackware I appreciate the balance of having lots of pre-built packages and just about everything that's not included as a build script on SlackBuilds.org (known as SBo by many) [2]. Are you still using Slackware today?

[0] http://www.slackware.com/changelog/stable.php?cpu=i386

[1] http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386

[2] http://www.slackbuilds.org/

I've been working with Linux in one form or another for 30 years now! I almost can't believe it's been that long. Though I haven't used Slackware since the late 90's, I might take another look.

> I've been working with Linux in one form or another for 30 years now! I almost can't believe it's been that long.

Congrats on that personal milestone! Quite amazing for something community-developed and supported throughout several generations of hardware and changing technologies!

> Though I haven't used Slackware since the late 90's, I might take another look. I would encourage it! The latest stable 15.0 release has pipewire and many other modern improvements, and I have been using the -current rolling release on my desktop PC without any hiccups since early 2022!

Hey, how about the gcc->egcs->foo->gcc upgrades?

Upgrades ? My main issue with gcc is not being able to compile old version on newer systems and the new versions not being able to compile old programs. But Slackware is great. My only complaint is that it doesn't ship static libraries anymore.

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