Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Today we have David Cantrell on the podcast, one of the authors of the Slackware book and one of the early developers from the Slackware project to talk about what things were like back then before Slackware became the oldest surviving Linux and longest running distro.

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🎵 Intro Music
Aces High by Kevin MacLeod
Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3337-aces-high
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