[2024-feb-29] Sad news: Eric Layton aka Nocturnal Slacker aka vtel57 passed away on Feb 26th, shortly after hospitalization. He was one of our Wiki's most prominent admins. He will be missed.

Welcome to the Slackware Documentation Project

About me

You can find out all about me on my website at http://harishankar.org/.

I also manage a literary discussion forum at http://literaryforums.org.

I am quite a private person and I am not too keen on sharing personal information online, so prepare to be disappointed ;-)

My History with Linux

I am a long time GNU/Linux user (since around 2001-2). My first distribution was (the legacy) Red Hat Linux 6.2 based distribution that came with a computer magazine. Since I couldn't partition my hard disk at that time, I installed it on an image file in DOS/Windows partition and used boot floppies which kept getting corrupted frequently. Later I used loadlin until I finally got a new hard-disk to partition properly for Linux use. Then I had to contend with LILO and its 1024 cylinder problem. Those days, for me, just booting into Linux was a major achievement.

The first serious Linux distribution I used was Debian Sarge when it was still testing. My main distributions these days are Debian sid (primary use) and Slackware 64-bit CURRENT (for development/testing purposes).

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