HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 00:45:06 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive X-Drupal-Cache: MISS Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Content-Language: en X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge X-Generator: Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org) Link: ; rel="canonical",; rel="shortlink" Vary: Accept-Encoding X-Request-ID: v-a5d16140-895a-11e8-8fe5-22000b770232 X-AH-Environment: prod X-Varnish: 83723192 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish-v4 X-Cache: MISS Accept-Ranges: bytes The oldest active Linux distro, Slackware turns 25 | Opensource.com
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Patrick Volkerding didn't set out to create a Linux distribution. He just wanted to simplify the process of installing and configuring Softlanding Linux System[2]. But when SLS didn't pick up his improvements, Volkerding decided to release his work as Slackware[3]. On July 17, 1993, he announced version 1.0. A quarter century and 30-plus versions later, Slackware is the oldest actively maintained Linux distribution. For many early Linux users, Slackware was their introduction. One user told me her first Linux install was Slackware—and she had to use a hex editor to fix the partition tables so that Slackware would install. Support for her hardware was added in a later release. Another got his start building the