Very thankful this Thanksgiving

In the 80's as a software engineer I came across UNIX and was smitten - I had spent years working on IBM 360's; 370's; Univac 1100 series; ICL 1900 series and honeywell as well as dec vax systems - yes I was a busy bee. But I really wanted to work with UNIX and I finally got my chance with Sun Systems and Sun OS. Wow!! and then I looked at finding something for my home computer, and I came across a company selling Linux (Slackware) and FreeBSD back around 1996. I was taken with both but realised I be able to install Linux easier. It's just come to me - Walnut Creek was the company!!! anyway Slackware was my first Linux and my favourite and I'm just about to rekindle my love of the software. Thank you Patrick. Keep well.

I installed Slackware in 1998, I was 14 years old, very curious and passionate (and I still am). I spent Many hours setting up Slackware on my Pentium 233 Mhz, 16 MB RAM and 3 GiB HDD, and I learned a Lot. I was a very poor child in a poor neighborhood and Linux was my passion. Later I became a software engineer. Never left Slackware. I'm happy I can support the project somehow.

In summer of 93, I had a PC with what I seem to recall being an IBM 486-something (had faster clock that Intel at the time). I was struggling with Apple's A/UX on a Macintosh II, and not getting very far (despite the 20+ volumes of 3-ring bound manuals). Then a friend handed me a stack of 23 floppies with something called Linux on it (Slackware, I believe, but memory can play tricks). Life was never the same. Pushed the Mac II out of the way and charged forward! Thanks for all the great bits for so many years, Pat!

I installed Slackware late 1993 early '94 as a young man, bright eyed and bushytailed. I am now much older, not that much wiser, but still using Slackware:) Thanks Pat.

We've never talked personally, but I feel like I've known you most of my life. Slackware was my first introduction to Linux in the later 90's, and I've never left. Just wanted to say thanks!

The merging of the latest Plasma into -current has me excited again about using Slackware on the desktop. I’m going to make a -current ISO and load it up onto one of my boxes :-) Thank you Pat for all your fine work across the years. Slackware was my first Linux distro. Sorry about how the store ripped you off. Hopefully we can make things better again.

David Moylan

Thanks pat for all the effort you make to maintain slackware, I'm looking forward to the new official version.

Thanks for everything Pat! When I saw Darkstar I new this was the only distro I would ever use. Wishing you happiness, health, and peace of mind.

When I first saw one of the first Slackware ads on Usenet in the early 90s, I said to myself "this is bloated, heck if I'm going to get a QIC tape drive to install it reasonably, Manchester Interim seems much more reasonable!" Now of course, times have changed, and Slackware is the only reasonable distro around. :) Thanks a lot for keeping it going, Pat.

Thank you for all the work you've done over the years, to allow people like me to enjoy using Slackware. It's a real pleasure to be a part of it

Hi Patrick, I have been using Slackware since 1998, when I started my professional career. And I always wondered how I could help you directly. Because your efforts to deliver us a Linux distro with such good quality and stability are incredible and I always wanted to thank you, but I never had the opportunity. The concept of transparency, simplicity and direct access to things, which you implemented in Slackware, has positively influenced several of my decisions over the years in different areas of my career. (Do you have any idea how powerful that was ? ;-D ) Anyway ... I just have to thank you very much. Let Slackware 15.0 come !!! Big hug from your admirer of Brazil.

https://imgur.com/isHLdJu This color is what i meant :P

Happy Holidays to ya all. Since were getting so close to slack 15 I have one thing I would like to bring up regarding plasma 5 and wondering if it might be possible to have added to the distro. In regards to themes could you include the kde3 and blue dotted pattern style window bars as well as colored kde4 style icon pack? I can add them myself a guy on the web compiled me a kde3 theme but for some reason the title bars will just not be the light blue color since it always changes color when I set other elements on the screen. One other issue I had was the mouse pointer would randomly change to different sizes on some applications. Though those are kde issues mainly. But it would be sweet to have a default included colorful kde3 theme specific to Slackware kde.

Thank you! Every time I use Slackware and feel the simplicity of it I feel like I'm home.

I've been using Slackware since 1996, and it's ruined me for any other distro. Thank you for your decades of work, and may you have the most rewarding of holidays.

Thank you for your hard work!

Hope you'll have a great Christmas, Pat!

Dear Patrick. For many years we have benefited from your work. We gratefully contribute our small donations to support you. We are very happy to know that slackware 15 is coming. Thank you very much for all your effort. A hug of gratitude from Colombia.

Apreciado Patrick. Por muchos años nos hemos beneficiado de tu trabajo. Con gratitud aportamos nuestras pequeñas donaciones para apoyarte. Nos da mucha alegría saber que slackware 15 está por llegar. Muchas gracias por todo tu esfuerzo. Un abrazo de gratitud desde Colombia.

Happy to help I still have very fond memories of slackware and still like using it just because I can! Take care and thanks for everything.

veritanuda

It's a pleasure to support this great distro. Long live Slackware!

Excellent news. Thank you for the update and please keep them coming!

This update has me all smiles. :-)

Fabulous to hear that it's a good Thanksgiving this year (as well as the Slackware news!). Thanks for all your hard work, and best wishes to you and your family. Stay safe etc.

Best wishes and thanks for the effort. best regards

Very good news!! Congratulations to the slackers. Thank you very much Patrick and close collaborators. 15.0 is very close, and there is a great light at the end of the tunnel

Wonderful news!, and what a better moment to inmensely thankyou Patrick, for Slackware than during Thanksgiving. I have been using Slackware since 1996.

What a wonderful news! I'm jumping in my seat like a kid, Happy Thanksgiving! and thanks to all of you folks for so many years of happy computing.

Love me some Slackware and turkey meat.

Excellent news!! Happy Thanksgiving from Greece!! I hope everyone's doing fine in these trouble times.

Happy Thanksgiving Pat! I'm glad I could help in some small way.

Happy Thanksgiving from Brazil! Patrick, thanks for all your work since 1993, I was presented to Slackware in 2001, it was my first Gnu/Linux Distribution which I saw and have worked. I love the work and passion you have put on Slackware. Thank you so much. I hope with 15.0 we could get a official git repository to help you mantaining Slackware, if you like it.

So excited to hear this news!!! Thank you so much for all your hard work!

Julian Grinblat

Your "LINUX Configuration and Installation" was my first book about Linux, and one of the most useful books in my life. Thank you for all your hard work! Happy Thanksgiving from Belarus. :)

Happy thanksgiving from Italy! Slacker since 1998, only OS on my pc from 2002, I had a panic week two o three month ago when I thought the project had stopped.... Thanks for all your hard work on "the linux distribution".

Happy thanksgiving and thanks to the GNOME/XFCE updates in the -current tree :)

Happy Thanksgiving from Argentina!

Ricardo

What they said.

A very long time ago I was getting my feet wet on compuserve with my Amiga 1000 when this m,esage hit me: "I'm running Slackware Linux on a 486x100 on a home-built clone and get whatever I want on the internet for free". I didn't know what the internet, a PC clone, Slackware or Linux or a 486 were ..but soon found out and they changed my life. Don't know about anybody else but the holiday don't even come close to the thanks I figure I owe to people like Patrick.

I’m thankful for Slackware and its community. Happy Thanksgiving!

Mitchel Valentino

Thanks for all you do for Slackware!

Slackware 15.0, Thanksgiving.

Excited! Happy Thanksgiving from Australia, Patrick.

Happy Thanksgiving from this Canadian Slackware user, Patrick! All the best to you and yours.