Title   : 10 years of slack!
Date    : 31 October 2010
Author  : Stian Skjæveland

It's quite amazing, but it's official. I've done this:

10 years of using Slackware Linux.
8 years of using my nickname "stunix".
5 years as High Priest of The Church of the SubGenius.

I've been using Slackware Linux for more than 10 years; since the 
release of 7.1. in 2000. Now it's 2010. That makes 10 years, simply. I 
remember it from my good old computer, when getting up X11 with 
'xf86config' wasn't that easy. In these days, you can just 'startx'! 
And everything _works_!

Slackware Linux was, is, and always will be one of the most UNIX-like 
distros out there. And that's what I like. I never found it "hard" to 
use, it just works!

Slackware Linux is in my heart. It was how I first began, as a 15-16 
years old kid to learn about UNIX-systems. Ok, I had a dual-boot between 
Microsoft Windows 98 and Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva), It may lasted 
for a year with that solution. So I started in the late 90's with Linux.

Then... I... Discovered... Slackware! Quite early I decided to not use 
X11 at all. It was around 2002-2003. I wanted to learn it the hard way; 
by using the command-line (BASH). Because of that, I nowadays know a 
lot about how to find the the quick way. I don't need some fancy 
GUI-tools to bring me there (in this case; to the solution).

For a few years ago I had my first x86_64 computer. Slackware - by 
at that time - did not officialy support that acrhitecture. But I used 
Slamd64 - an unofficial port. It worked quite alright. :)

When Pat and the Slackware team came up with Slackware64 I was more than 
happy, and it worked very well. Of course I could wish that multilib was 
set up by default, like with Slamd64, but "Alien Bob"'s solution seemes 
to work quite well.

"Why do you use Slackware?", you may ask. "There's more decent distros 
out there, which got a decent package manager, a decent set of 
GUI-tools", etc. It's because Slackware is what I am. It's as simply as 
that. I even made x86_64 packages for Slackware when there was no 
Slackware64. But Slackware simply cover all my needs. It is simple, 
stable, secure, and fast! I use Fluxbox (as my weapon of choice) when it 
comes to window-managers. It's simple. But stable.

Of course I want people to use Linux or any of the free/open 
BSD-variants, and Ubuntu Linux seems like the best choice for most of 
the people out there these days. I respect that. It's much better than 
using Microsoft-systems.

And when it comes to Apple... Well. The only good thing about it is that 
it's not Microsoft.

 -- Stian (a.k.a. stunix).