Slackware is so OLD that it could not play MP3. You had to SOX into them into WAV first. This experience may vary, depending on your machine. 20 MHz machine could not play, 50 Mhz could. Another remarkable point in history was at 300 Mhz, when you could play VHS-quality video.
I have a strong emotional connection with Slackware. I downloaded everything except X11 via my family's 2400 baud modem in the early 1990s. I was amazed to have Emacs and the GNU compilers on my own laptop. 6months later I bought all of Slackware on about fifty 3 1/2 inch floppy disks and I was in heaven.
At the same time at work, I was building systems on top of SCO Unix, which was good enough but expensive.
The source article for this TexhRadar repost is the The Register [0] which has a much less of a clickbait title, “ Oh hello. Haven't heard much from you lately: Linux veteran Slackware rides again with a beta of version 15”.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 31.5 ms ] threadMods, can we get the link changed?
Is anyone here still using Slackware?
Why? Because I know it inside and out, it's simple, I know exactly what is running, when it's running and how it's running.
At the same time at work, I was building systems on top of SCO Unix, which was good enough but expensive.
[0] - https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/16/slackware_15_beta/