Slackware Linux Turns 30, Happy Birthday!

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Submission + - Slackware Linux Turns 30, Happy Birthday! (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by prisoninmate on Monday July 17, 2023 @06:09AM

prisoninmate writes: 9to5Linux remembers that it's been 30 years since Patrick Volkerding announced Slackware Linux 1.00 on July 16th, 1993, as the first stable release of an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution as a “complete installation system designed for systems with a 3.5 boot floppy” and what turned out to be one of the world’s oldest surviving Linux distributions.

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