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| === Slackware Linux === | === Slackware Linux === |
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| My first venture into Linux was in December 2004 on the suggestion of a friend, [[http://aal.fatdog.nl/|Aal]]. He strongly advised that I should try Slackware. Little did I know at that time that this was to be my baptism of fire! I spent the first week with Slackware by breaking my system, many times, and asking Aal to "fix it". Until the point came when he said, "WTF!?!?! Slackware is the most stable Linux system you will __EVER__ work on. How can you keep screwing it up??? The next time you break it, you'll be fixing it yourself!" After that, I got real and instead of employing the //trial and error// methods of educating myself (which had served me so well in the past), I decidedly took to the Internet and began to learn the right way. Or, at least, not the wrong way. Slackware (and Linux in general) was a whole new and very different, but exciting, ball game for me personally and up until this very day I have enjoyed every minute of it! Well, mostly every minute. lol :-D | My first venture into Linux was early in December 2004 on the suggestion of a friend, [[http://aal.fatdog.nl/|Aal]]. He strongly advised that I should try Slackware. Little did I know at that time that this was to be my baptism of fire! I spent the first week with Slackware by breaking my system, many times, and asking Aal to "fix it". Until the point came when he said, "WTF!?!?! Slackware is the most stable Linux system you will __EVER__ work on. How can you keep screwing it up??? The next time you break it, you'll be fixing it yourself!" After that, I got real and instead of employing the //trial and error// methods of educating myself (which had served me so well in the past), I decidedly took to the Internet and began to learn the right way. Or, at least, not the wrong way. Slackware (and Linux in general) was a whole new and very different, but exciting, ball game for me personally and up until this very day I have enjoyed every minute of it! Well, mostly every minute. lol :-D |
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| I have tried many other Linux distributions but their appeal has not lasted with me. I think Slackware's, "KISS" philosophy, of what an operating system should offer and consist of and how it should run, is the thing that's endeared me to it. More so than any of the others. Slackware just makes sense to me. | I have tried many other Linux distributions but their appeal has not lasted with me. I think Slackware's, "KISS" philosophy, of what an operating system should offer and consist of and how it should run, is the thing that's endeared me to it. More so than any of the others. Slackware just makes sense to me. |
| Over time, after the releases of the RPi2 and RPi3, came the [[http://rpi2.fatdog.eu|SARPi2 Project website]] and [[http://rpi3.fatdog.eu|SARPi3 Project website]] respectively. Then, [[http://www.slackware.com/~mozes/|Mozes]] suggested that to cut down on time, effort, and maintenance, the three separate SARPi Project websites should be combined into "one site to rule them all". Great idea! This was realised with the inception of the current [[http://sarpi.co.uk|SARPi.co.uk Project website]] with the other website URLs redirecting to it. | Over time, after the releases of the RPi2 and RPi3, came the [[http://rpi2.fatdog.eu|SARPi2 Project website]] and [[http://rpi3.fatdog.eu|SARPi3 Project website]] respectively. Then, [[http://www.slackware.com/~mozes/|Mozes]] suggested that to cut down on time, effort, and maintenance, the three separate SARPi Project websites should be combined into "one site to rule them all". Great idea! This was realised with the inception of the current [[http://sarpi.co.uk|SARPi.co.uk Project website]] with the other website URLs redirecting to it. |
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| | === Slackware for the future === |
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| | I'm very interested in seeing Slackware ARM64 (Aarch64 port) become a reality. It's a seriously massive undertaking but I think, if enough of the right people put their heads and efforts together, anything is possible. |
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| | I'll be running Slackware/Slackware ARM until Pat and Stuart stop releasing it. Then I'll cry! ;-p |
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