Very interesting, love it. I've been using Slackware since 93 I think. It's always been my daily driver. It just works for me. I was brought up in a Unix environment so it is very comfortable. To be honest, I loved OS/2 but it was clear in 95 or so that IBM was abandoning ship on it, so I went with what I was comfortable with. I really didn't care for the Microsoft product, not that it was bad, I needed to get my work done and I had already invested my adolescence in Unix at my fathers work. I still have a home built socket 5 or 7 board that I built a long time ago. Im sure it would boot as I replaced that shitty battery years ago. I assume it would have Slackware 3.3 on it and a second drive with Os/2 Warp 3. Probaly need to go to storage unit and dig it out, controlled environment storage is nice. I recently got out my 5150 and it was solid, sold it, complete system.
oh this is beautiful I learned basic linux hardway in my teenage years after wiping out the windows partition installing slackware 7.1 (from a magazine) ... and after some days to figuure out/find a printed hint about the /etc/hosts config, I loved the system, used until the 12.1, when I needed windows for study/work and went macos after a while...tryed ubuntu and centos, yet nothing like the simplicity and stability of the old slackware what I know about posix systems where learned there, ...after 15 years far from linux, things are still useful (like I kept vi/vim for a long time as my main editor) today I'm back playing with selfhosting/homelab and linux, just need some time to put a slackware machine (beside the power consumption) or a good setted vm for the fun of it damn, this video hits hard, tty on crt is so great, I forgot about that tks!!
Doesn't sound useless to me, unless using an old HW is useless anyway... I really liked the performance, I expected much less. OpenSSH ran very well and I believe that other services can also run reasonably well. I was also able to use a network card and get 50Mbps of speed, not surprising but 'okay'. In general, I would be sorry to use a PC like that for a server or anything on an ongoing basis, I prefer a Raspberry Pi for that, but it's still interesting.
Yes, I didn't use the default kernel and had to do a very special build for this PC, although I haven't touched the kernel source at any time. You can check more here: gist.github.com/Theldus/ba059d9885ec9ffffd7792e8b4603d30
Slackware 15 (the latest) is built for i586+. You may have better luck with 14.1 (from 2013), as most of its packages are already for i486 and i386. However, since the Linux kernel still supports i486, you may still be able to build Slackware 15 from scratch (kernel + packages), but for i486.
@@Nbbhggggfgggjfgshg Yes, if I wanted a build for i486 on Slackware 15, I would indeed have to rebuild all the packages, but not from SlackBuilds, rather the official Slackware packages.
I haven't tested it, and I wouldn't risk testing it... If even my Raspberry Pi 1B with its 512MB of RAM struggles to run an interface decently, this Pentium 133 MHz with its 32MB (one 32MB stick died a few days after this video) and being twice as slow as the Pi 1B would certainly be painful to use...
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Very interesting, love it. I've been using Slackware since 93 I think. It's always been my daily driver. It just works for me. I was brought up in a Unix environment so it is very comfortable. To be honest, I loved OS/2 but it was clear in 95 or so that IBM was abandoning ship on it, so I went with what I was comfortable with. I really didn't care for the Microsoft product, not that it was bad, I needed to get my work done and I had already invested my adolescence in Unix at my fathers work. I still have a home built socket 5 or 7 board that I built a long time ago. Im sure it would boot as I replaced that shitty battery years ago. I assume it would have Slackware 3.3 on it and a second drive with Os/2 Warp 3. Probaly need to go to storage unit and dig it out, controlled environment storage is nice. I recently got out my 5150 and it was solid, sold it, complete system.
Slackware is fantastic.
Definitely it is =)
If you liked this one, check this one out: th-cam.com/video/9y-1LYChmDA/w-d-xo.html, I managed to run with even less memory =)
Slackware is so addictive. If you love it. Its hard to use something else. It installs everything you need.
Bring back to 90s memory
In earlier Slackware used text based like DOS,to running desktop type startx
It's still that way and it's how I use it regularly on my desktop =).
oh this is beautiful
I learned basic linux hardway in my teenage years after wiping out the windows partition installing slackware 7.1 (from a magazine) ... and after some days to figuure out/find a printed hint about the /etc/hosts config, I loved the system, used until the 12.1, when I needed windows for study/work and went macos after a while...tryed ubuntu and centos, yet nothing like the simplicity and stability of the old slackware
what I know about posix systems where learned there, ...after 15 years far from linux, things are still useful (like I kept vi/vim for a long time as my main editor)
today I'm back playing with selfhosting/homelab and linux, just need some time to put a slackware machine (beside the power consumption) or a good setted vm for the fun of it
damn, this video hits hard, tty on crt is so great, I forgot about that
tks!!
It's really cool, how you can still run modern software on such an old machine. Useless, but still cool
Doesn't sound useless to me, unless using an old HW is useless anyway... I really liked the performance, I expected much less. OpenSSH ran very well and I believe that other services can also run reasonably well. I was also able to use a network card and get 50Mbps of speed, not surprising but 'okay'.
In general, I would be sorry to use a PC like that for a server or anything on an ongoing basis, I prefer a Raspberry Pi for that, but it's still interesting.
Wow! Big Slackware fan here... do you have a list of steps or a HOWTO on how to recreate something like this?
Thanks. Give me a day or two and I will write a mini-howto on how to accomplish this =).
@djsixottawa Sorry for the delay, but here we go: gist.github.com/Theldus/ba059d9885ec9ffffd7792e8b4603d30
I hope you like =)
@@DavidsonQWERTY Thank you! Will give this a try very soon :)
The kernel was modified, i guess
Yes, I didn't use the default kernel and had to do a very special build for this PC, although I haven't touched the kernel source at any time. You can check more here: gist.github.com/Theldus/ba059d9885ec9ffffd7792e8b4603d30
very nice!
Old school
nice.
I wonder if this would run on my 486?
Slackware 15 (the latest) is built for i586+. You may have better luck with 14.1 (from 2013), as most of its packages are already for i486 and i386.
However, since the Linux kernel still supports i486, you may still be able to build Slackware 15 from scratch (kernel + packages), but for i486.
@@DavidsonQWERTY In this case, would you wind up rebuilding the packages from Slackbuilds as you were rebuilding them?
@@Nbbhggggfgggjfgshg Yes, if I wanted a build for i486 on Slackware 15, I would indeed have to rebuild all the packages, but not from SlackBuilds, rather the official Slackware packages.
Did you install a desktop environment? I wonder if startx would actually work
I haven't tested it, and I wouldn't risk testing it... If even my Raspberry Pi 1B with its 512MB of RAM struggles to run an interface decently, this Pentium 133 MHz with its 32MB (one 32MB stick died a few days after this video) and being twice as slow as the Pi 1B would certainly be painful to use...
=) =) nice!